California Counties Declare Independence From Liberal Cost, Creating ‘New California’
16th January 2018
The founders of the state are appealing to Article 4, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution and plan to bring legislation to the California legislature in the next 10 to 18 months to legally divide the state in two, CBS Sacramento reported Monday. West Virginia was created by the same method in 1863. The founders say that high taxes and poor government have forced the rural counties to take action against the more wealthy coastal areas.
This will go nowhere, of course, because the Left Coast needs these Other People’s Money to support their incipient socialist state. But it’s a noble effort.
“Well, it’s been ungovernable for a long time. High taxes, education, you name it, and we’re rated around 48th or 50th from a business climate and standpoint in California,” founder Robert Paul Preston. “There’s something wrong when you have a rural county such as this one, and you go down to Orange County which is mostly urban, and it has the same set of problems, and it happens because of how the state is being governed and taxed.”
When this fails, there’s plenty of room for you guys in Texas. C’mon down!
January 16th, 2018 at 14:11
Take it easy on the hospitality unless they vow to vote against the policies that californicated California.
January 17th, 2018 at 00:00
There has been a popular movement to split up New York for the same reason – and it failed for the same reason that the California initiative will fail – the socialist cities need the cash they suck out of the rest of the state. Much of NY would thrive if they could just get rid of the Hudson Valley (Albany and NYC).
January 17th, 2018 at 09:06
Was ‘Cost’ rather than ‘Coast’ in the headline a deliberate choice? Works out well.
It will be very, very interesting how the tax changes affect certain major metropolitan areas which have been plodding along sure in the knowledge that their state and local income taxes were being underwritten by the federal government deduction. It would be even better to cap the deduction at something like the average amount for a family of four in the 35th percentile of income, to protect the poor of course.
January 17th, 2018 at 15:44
Trumpian slip.