What happens to people in California who don’t want to secede?
Suppose there’s a vote, and suppose the vote is 60-40% in favor of secession. What happens to the 40%; do they retain their American citizenship even if living in the independent nation of California? Would they be compelled to move to another state to retain citizenship?
What about social security benefits earned; federal taxes paid by Californians??
What about California’s share of the $20 trillion national debt? Does California have to absorb that and pay it off?? Or can they just walk away from it?
What about all the military bases in California? They are American bases; will California have its own army and navy?
All good questions.
I suggest that those who want to remain, take up arms. I suspect that a majority of the people who support session are liberals who hate the military and the reverse is true for those who want to remain in the US.
Liberals by nature are ingrates and don’t realize that a balance is necessary for survival — you need the military for defense, you need a vibrant low tax economy to pay for the entitlements. Hating the military and big business is stupid.
Easy. SS is now pay-as-you-go. CA would create its own SSA and Californians would send in their 7.5% to them instead of the DC version.
>>> What about California’s share of the $20 trillion national debt? Does California have to absorb that and pay it off?? Or can they just walk away from it?
Proportional taxation says they would pay 1/10 of that debt. $2 Trillion. That debt would be negotiated and could be paid off with CA bonds. They would assume their own part of the debt.
>>> What about all the military bases in California? They are American bases; will California have its own army and navy?
CA would become part of NATO. We could negotiate using the the bases in CA. Just like in the other NATO countries.
We are like Quisling/Vichy occupied territory here (if Quisling and the Vichy were Mexican socialists) and instead of helping out our brave fellow freepers are eager to throw us to the wolves.