TikToker Crushes Texas' Secession Dreams With Harsh Reality

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

[BlueGreenLady]

1. Hypothetically, would Retirees continue to

receive Social Security and Medicare benefits if they seceded? I'm betting most people wouldn't want to secede.

[LonePirate]

10. Most likely not since they would forfeit their US citizenship as a result.

Texas would lose all of its military bases not to mention the surplus federal funds it receives year above the amount it pays in (just like almost all red states).

Texas would have to impose a massive individual income tax or send sales taxes through the roof. Services would be sharply cut. Infrastructure would crumble. The power grid would likely fail and be out of service for a long time, perhaps permanently. The place would be an absolute hellhole by modern standards but they would have their freedom, guns and no abortions.

[Delphinus]

14. Thank you

I appreciate you laying out the facts.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Excellent points.

Not a well thought out plan.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. This TikToker (whoever he is) makes good sense. Texas cannot and will not leave the Union. n/t

[hlthe2b]

4. That's what I thought about the UK--before BREXIT... But that isn't turning out so well, either

Texan RWers don't seem to care about consequences...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Yeah, they don't seem to care, do they?

Maybe when it bites them in the a**, then they will!

[TwilightZone]

7. They know they can't secede.

One of their heroes, Antonin Scalia, made it crystal clear.

"To begin with, the answer is clear. If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede."

I really wish we'd stop taking the bait every damn time this happens.

[LonePirate]

9. That bearded Tik Toker is @TomPowellJr. He is a very pragmatic and sensible progressive.

[Codifer]

6. I hope that there will be no secession.

If all said and done Texas would suffer much. Putin would love them tough, my gawd, what a prize Texas would be for him.

And then the world will suck until the end.

[LonePirate]

8. The global economy will tank if secession becomes a real possibility in the US.

It then becomes a debate whether a global depression, collapse of the US dollar, runaway inflation (far worse than what we have today) and widespread unemployment makes people more or less likely to support secession. Either way, it will not be the paradise and solution those in favor of secession seem to think it is.

[Karadeniz]

11. Surely some big businesses located there would leave.

[867-5309.]

12. Let 'em go

and fall flat on their face.

[love_katz]

13. They're welcome to leave, with the following conditions:

The state of Texas, not our Federal government, would have to pay in full the relocation costs of all who would want to leave their Talibornagain (fake) paradise. The US would withdraw all of our military personnel and close our military bases there, removing all of our resources and funding. We would do the same for NASA: remove all employees, resources and funding. Texans would lose Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. All funding and aid from the US would stop. Texas would be required to fully fund and build a wall between our borders, to keep them out. The US would not fund but also not impede any whackadoodle wing nut who would want to move to Texas. Good riddance to bad rubbish, and good luck trying to make it on their own, when they actually receive more support from the rest of us then they contribute in the form of taxes, etc.