powerboatr wrote:gdanaher wrote:Stand back for a moment and look at Cruz and the policies he is espousing. He may be popular amongst the tea party folks, but his election would likely further marginalize any influence that the state of Texas has in Washington, and that would do us little good.
thats why we need to secede.
my plan
we tell DC to pack sand and we go back to being the Republic of Texas.
wait
we also bring in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida . Of course we would need to help Nm, because they would get lost
we would need a republic referendum to allow Georgia and the Carolina s in.
then we tariff all petroleum products headed for the other states, at 10%. And for the following Illinois, Michigan, Rhode Island, Vermont, California, Virginia, Tennessee, Ohio,Maryland, Colorado,Massachusetts , Washington, and Oregon its an additional 15%.
Food crops will be a modest 5%
We close the airspace above out new republic. We close our new borders, including the Mexico one for the time being. We also take as spoils of war all incoming imports from Mexico bound for other places
we outlaw ehtanol
make natural gas filling locations a priority along with conversions for gasoline vehicles now to be bi-fueled.
All Federal offices occupied in the new zone will be vacated at once, the employees will be allowed to stay if they are Native Texans, imports will be a asked to take serious Texas history exam before being allowed to stay.
we implement a straight across the board 8% flat tax, for 5 years, then scale back to 6% on all sales to fund our new Republic.
then of course the current sales tax would go away.
have to work out the property tax issues...but its a winner
just a start.
its also a pipe dream that the fed will never allow to happen, remember Mr. Lincoln set a precedent when he began the civil war to disallow the states to secede from the united states and therefore made it defacto illegal for any state or commwealth territory to attemp to leave the union. even being his actions were illegal. so dream away and realize unless we want a civil war we are stuck with the united states of Obama