(* If I were you, I'd let Texas go. I can think of at least one prominant family you'd be able to repatriate. )This message has been edited. Last edited by: BobHale,
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
December 14, 2012, 19:54
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I can't find the article but several months ago when Texas and several other Southern states were discussing the possibility of their leaving, a columnist provided data showing that every one of the potential secessionists TOOK MORE MONEY FROM the Federal government than their citizens put in by way of income taxes. So, overall, it wouldn't be a loss.
All the states petitioning to secede from the United States that obtained enough signatures to elicit a response from the White House — with the exception of Alabama — were some of the largest recipients of federal funding in 2010.
But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1868 that Texas and other states could not secede from the union. They found that secession can be accompanied only through a revolution or by an agreement among the states, such as a constitutional amendment
December 14, 2012, 22:57
Kalleh
Yeah...I've read that, too. So let's let them go, I say!
December 15, 2012, 00:00
tinman
No. I just listened to an audiobook of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Lincoln worked long and hard to preserve the Union. Let's not undo his work.
December 20, 2012, 20:58
Kalleh
I just bought it for my boss, but I haven't read it yet. I have heard it's wonderful, though, Tinman.
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