OT: Texas Succession. Heh heh….

[Nor-LA-SD-guy]

[quote=afx114]I wonder how Texas would feel if we pulled all of the federal aid they receive. Pull out the border patrol, all federal troops, close down all federal bases, close down the Johnson Space center, stop hurricane relief aid rebuilding efforts, and “build the fence!” between Texas and the rest of the United States. Does Texas think that we’d let any water from the Rio Grande go beyond Las Cruces? Do they have the money and the manpower to enforce the border with Mexico? I hate to break it to them, but a bunch of Minutemen in RVs building chain link fences isn’t going to do the job. Is this really the road that Texas wants to go down?

Nate Silver did an analysis of what the electoral college would look like if Texas succeeded, and the results aren’t pretty for the GOP: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/04/hey-rick-can-we-talk.html

Could you imagine the outrage if California or Massachusetts had threatened succession under Bush? We wouldn’t have heard the end of it from Rush, Coulter, and DeLay. Treason, terrorists, and gay heathens is what they’d be calling us.

I say let us keep Austin, the rest can go.[/quote]

I have to agree, Well said.

I would add then Califorina would do well to succeed, I got to believe we send far more to the FedGov than we get back.

[Eugene]

[quote]I wonder how Texas would feel if we pulled all of the federal aid they receive. Pull out the border patrol, all federal troops, close down all federal bases, close down the Johnson Space center, stop hurricane relief aid rebuilding efforts, and “build the fence!” between Texas and the rest of the United States. Does Texas think that we’d let any water from the Rio Grande go beyond Las Cruces? Do they have the money and the manpower to enforce the border with Mexico? I hate to break it to them, but a bunch of Minutemen in RVs building chain link fences isn’t going to do the job. Is this really the road that Texas wants to go down?[/quote]

This is partly true – but also consider that Texas is a tax “donor” state, which means that it traditionally pays slightly more in federal taxes than receives in federal spending. So all those things you mentioned, from border patrol to Katrina rebuilding, are indirectly paid by Texans.

[Eugene]

[quote]I wonder how Texas would feel if we pulled all of the federal aid they receive. Pull out the border patrol, all federal troops, close down all federal bases, close down the Johnson Space center, stop hurricane relief aid rebuilding efforts, and “build the fence!” between Texas and the rest of the United States. Does Texas think that we’d let any water from the Rio Grande go beyond Las Cruces? Do they have the money and the manpower to enforce the border with Mexico? I hate to break it to them, but a bunch of Minutemen in RVs building chain link fences isn’t going to do the job. Is this really the road that Texas wants to go down?[/quote]

This is partly true – but also consider that Texas is a tax “donor” state, which means that it traditionally pays slightly more in federal taxes than receives in federal spending. So all those things you mentioned, from border patrol to Katrina rebuilding, are indirectly paid by Texans.

[Eugene]

[quote]I wonder how Texas would feel if we pulled all of the federal aid they receive. Pull out the border patrol, all federal troops, close down all federal bases, close down the Johnson Space center, stop hurricane relief aid rebuilding efforts, and “build the fence!” between Texas and the rest of the United States. Does Texas think that we’d let any water from the Rio Grande go beyond Las Cruces? Do they have the money and the manpower to enforce the border with Mexico? I hate to break it to them, but a bunch of Minutemen in RVs building chain link fences isn’t going to do the job. Is this really the road that Texas wants to go down?[/quote]

This is partly true – but also consider that Texas is a tax “donor” state, which means that it traditionally pays slightly more in federal taxes than receives in federal spending. So all those things you mentioned, from border patrol to Katrina rebuilding, are indirectly paid by Texans.

[Eugene]

[quote]I wonder how Texas would feel if we pulled all of the federal aid they receive. Pull out the border patrol, all federal troops, close down all federal bases, close down the Johnson Space center, stop hurricane relief aid rebuilding efforts, and “build the fence!” between Texas and the rest of the United States. Does Texas think that we’d let any water from the Rio Grande go beyond Las Cruces? Do they have the money and the manpower to enforce the border with Mexico? I hate to break it to them, but a bunch of Minutemen in RVs building chain link fences isn’t going to do the job. Is this really the road that Texas wants to go down?[/quote]

This is partly true – but also consider that Texas is a tax “donor” state, which means that it traditionally pays slightly more in federal taxes than receives in federal spending. So all those things you mentioned, from border patrol to Katrina rebuilding, are indirectly paid by Texans.

[Eugene]

[quote]I wonder how Texas would feel if we pulled all of the federal aid they receive. Pull out the border patrol, all federal troops, close down all federal bases, close down the Johnson Space center, stop hurricane relief aid rebuilding efforts, and “build the fence!” between Texas and the rest of the United States. Does Texas think that we’d let any water from the Rio Grande go beyond Las Cruces? Do they have the money and the manpower to enforce the border with Mexico? I hate to break it to them, but a bunch of Minutemen in RVs building chain link fences isn’t going to do the job. Is this really the road that Texas wants to go down?[/quote]

This is partly true – but also consider that Texas is a tax “donor” state, which means that it traditionally pays slightly more in federal taxes than receives in federal spending. So all those things you mentioned, from border patrol to Katrina rebuilding, are indirectly paid by Texans.

[CostaMesa]

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/266.html

Texas doesn’t have a lot of room to complain. I’d be much happier to see California secede – Will Durst even had a website to this effect years back.

It’s absolutely comical to watch average republicants complain about taxes to pay for the mess when they’re obviously happy to acquiesce to the crimes that got us into the mess in the first place.

[CostaMesa]

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/266.html

Texas doesn’t have a lot of room to complain. I’d be much happier to see California secede – Will Durst even had a website to this effect years back.

It’s absolutely comical to watch average republicants complain about taxes to pay for the mess when they’re obviously happy to acquiesce to the crimes that got us into the mess in the first place.

[CostaMesa]

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/266.html

Texas doesn’t have a lot of room to complain. I’d be much happier to see California secede – Will Durst even had a website to this effect years back.

It’s absolutely comical to watch average republicants complain about taxes to pay for the mess when they’re obviously happy to acquiesce to the crimes that got us into the mess in the first place.

[CostaMesa]

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/266.html

Texas doesn’t have a lot of room to complain. I’d be much happier to see California secede – Will Durst even had a website to this effect years back.

It’s absolutely comical to watch average republicants complain about taxes to pay for the mess when they’re obviously happy to acquiesce to the crimes that got us into the mess in the first place.

[CostaMesa]

http://www.taxfoundation.org/taxdata/show/266.html

Texas doesn’t have a lot of room to complain. I’d be much happier to see California secede – Will Durst even had a website to this effect years back.

It’s absolutely comical to watch average republicants complain about taxes to pay for the mess when they’re obviously happy to acquiesce to the crimes that got us into the mess in the first place.

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