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Secession Fever Jumps from CA to IL
A couple of months ago Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone called for the southeastern part of California to secede from the rest of the state. “We have businesses leaving all the time, and we’re just driving down a cliff to become a third-world economy,” he said, correctly. Now Secession Fever has hit Illinois, another state with a socialist government driving its people into Third World status. Reports the Wall Street Journal: Now two downstate Republican lawmakers think that they’ve found a solution for … disgruntled Illinoisans who want to escape but can’t: Cut off the pesky tail that’s wagging the dog—separate Chicago from the rest of the state. That’s the legislative initiative of State Reps. Adam Brown and Bill Mitchell, who think politicians from the Windy City have blown the state too far left. “At every town-hall meeting I hear, ‘Can’t we separate from Chicago?’” says Mr. Mitchell. It’s a similar story to that in California, but with bad weather. A more populous, politically concentrated area of each state located on a coast is robbing the rest of the state blind. In Illinois, the coastal area is Chicago. In California, it’s the area from Los Angeles up through Marin County. In both states the Robber Coasts are made up of government-union elites, rich liberal elites (Hollywood, Silicon Valley in California; the Daley-Rahm Emanuel crowd in Chicago), nepotistic political dynasty elites (the Daleys in Chicago, the Browns in California), powerful Democratic party elites and inept Republican parties. Ripoff SubsidiesWall Street: In 2008, lawmakers in Springfield cobbled together a $530 million rescue package for Chicago’s transit system, which was on the brink of collapse because of sky-high labor and legacy costs. Just this week they pushed through $300 million of tax credits for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board Options Exchange and Sears to prevent the businesses from fleeing to lower-tax climes. In California we have massive subsidies for the stem-cell research ($6 billion), the California High-Speed Rail Authority ($9.9 billion) and the bankrupt Solyndra (a $25 million tax break from the state). Wall Street: Both Indiana and Ohio have been aggressively poaching Illinois businesses, especially since January, when [Illinois] lawmakers raised the state income tax to a flat 5% from 3% and the corporate tax to 9.5% from 7.3%. California also has suffered a massive exodus of business and jobs. And Gov. Jerry Brown and his cronies in the Legislature keep pushing a massive $7 billion tax increase. In both cases, secession is a great idea. If the tax-increase areas of a state want tax increases, let them have the increases — but separate from the areas that want lower taxes. For both states, it’s time for a divorce. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another… Dec. 22, 2011
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May 24, 2013
I hope secession can gain some traction but people still look at you like you have 3 heads if you bring up the topic.
Secession is a proletariat fantasy. It sounds nice. But your masters would never allow it to happen. Oh, you’ll get one or two pols out there tossing the idea around – like with a part-time legislature in Ca – but it will never happen. In the end the Courts will back the pols. Do you think it really matters what the people want in 2011? We overwhelmingly opposed TARP, the Stimulus Bill, giving taxpayer benefits to illegal foreigners unlawfully in our country, Obamacare, a debt ceiling increase, a CA tax increase in 2009, banksters being above the law, etc… Did our opposition matter in the end? Not a bit. So what makes you think a sucession would materialize?
The political parties in California are pretty much Democrat only. Republicans are non existant. Being an independent, the citizens of the state need more diversity in choices.
To move toward secession, you would need to elect (if elections are not rigged already)a new crop of independent politicians. The Democrats, unions and courts have too much invested in crony politics to resign themselves to having to work for a living. In addition, the average taxpayer in CA would have to rebel against the establishment, and like Bob says above, “people still look at you as if you have 3 heads,” if you mention the idea of secession.
From The Constitution:
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
The CA state legislature would have to agree and they won’t.
While the two major political parties in the state are obviously a failure. The deficit occurred under the watch of both Republicans and Democrats. It is time for other parties to step forward and offer something new.