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An ultimatum. Holding the entire state hostage...
You know, like a Good Guy would do!
TBF, the US government already does something similar with federal highway funding.
In that case its not targeted at a specific state, just at ensuring all states hold the same standard wrt drunk driving.
Only the best Jedi deal in absolutes...
Right?
He got impeached for doing this to Ukraine.
Best of luck!
There are no consequences for Trump, ever
I still hope to see him bankrupted (again) and dying in prison, or at least house arrest.
Ok. Why don't we just stop sending you more tax money than we receive? We'll just pay for shit ourselves and not pay federal taxes anymore.
We're cool with that.
Your federal tax brackets are reaming us while our cost of living is way higher than the national median anyway.
Right on!
Tired of propping up the red welfare states!
Here’s the issue: think about how happy you will be when TX leaves the union. The GOP feels the same about CA.
They'll do an about face real quick when they realize that more GOP voters live in CA than anywhere else. Gotta be able to get that campaign $$$
Yeah, except California could be a nationstate on its own without needing outside help and the same is not true of Texas. It's closer to being true for Texas than it is for most red states, that is true, but Texas can't even keep its power on. And that whole oil industry thing? Looking pretty temporary.
If there were another civil war coming up, sure, most of it would not be based on geography, but California, Oregon, and Washington would definitely stick together.
And hopefully lose some of our righter-leaning populations to emigration.
West coast is the best coast...absolutely we would stick together, not even a question. All the right leaning folk talk about how great Idaho is. I imagine they'd all be refugees there.
No worries, how about we stop paying our federal taxes? You good with that?
Didn't think so.
all the red states collapse without transfer from richer blue states
5th largest economy in the world
Whyv would he care? He sure doesn't fuckin pay them.
So uh for real that’s the sort of shit could potentially start a civil war
It really wouldn't, and he actually did this during his last term.
Hell, he passed a tax cut mostly targeted at red states and just smirked.
We really should try turnabout next time.
Or a second “attempt” 😇
States rights people sure don't have much to say about this
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