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Hortensis

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13. And we get to stop supporting FL with our tax dollars. Okay to that.

Fri Dec 11, 2020, 10:31 AM

Dec 2020

We own "snowbird" property down there, but it's so modest that any deflation in its value should be offset by decrease in whatever we might choose to replace it. (I'm thinking a MH park again in a well policed retiree area since I'd expect crime to rise unacceptably in our rural area. Very beautiful, but interior FL has a lot of poverty, not like the retiree coasts.) And we live within a day's drive in the United States so could return home for medical care after the local hospitals become unacceptable.

I don't worry about passports, welcome, etc. Like any impoverished island, tourists bringing in money would be courted and areas where Americans wintered protected from the locals.

It'd be extremely hard on and unfair to the Floridians who wanted to remain Americans, of course. I'm sure they never thought they could find themselves citizens of third-world type country oppressed and even endangered by an authoritarian government. We would have to offer resettlement aid to fellow citizens who wanted to move north.

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Local Republicans support Florida becoming its own country (welcome to my world) [View all] William769 Dec 2020 OP

Then Floridians would need a passport to go to the US. Sanity Claws Dec 2020 #1

They would be a bunch of "illegal immigrants" CAN WE BUILD A WALL to keep them out?? TigressDem Dec 2020 #2

Now that's funny. William769 Dec 2020 #5

That would be great Sanity Claws Dec 2020 #9

Florida will soon be its own *archipelago* neeksgeek Dec 2020 #3

Could we just build the wall around SW Florida? Chainfire Dec 2020 #4

Only if you give me advance warning. William769 Dec 2020 #6

Are they for real. It would become a third world country. CatMor Dec 2020 #7

It is NAPLES obamanut2012 Dec 2020 #8

State Sen. In TX filed a bill of secession this week JCMach1 Dec 2020 #10

Yeah, but don't they do that about every 4 years? JK nt TigressDem Dec 2020 #15

Yeah! With those 2 gone the pukes will never win an election again Thekaspervote Dec 2020 #29

LOL, shutoff all SS and Medicare to Florida and Florida would cease to exist beachbumbob Dec 2020 #11

Most republicans in SW Florida are relocated Midwesterns GulfCoast66 Dec 2020 #12

Lol that is my understanding as well TheRealNorth Dec 2020 #34

And we get to stop supporting FL with our tax dollars. Okay to that. Hortensis Dec 2020 #13

DeSantistan. Chipper Chat Dec 2020 #14

A literal and figurative swamp. NCDem47 Dec 2020 #16

What is Florida's GDP? ProudMNDemocrat Dec 2020 #17

We actually have a lot of other things. lark Dec 2020 #20

Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, NAVAL Station in Pensacola, Cape Canaveral..... ProudMNDemocrat Dec 2020 #22

This will never happen. lark Dec 2020 #25

Exactly...Too many consequences..... ProudMNDemocrat Dec 2020 #27

I agree, though it's fun to imagine treestar Dec 2020 #38

Tax base to fund gov't services? That's what they don't want. Merlot Dec 2020 #37

Good riddance to Florida and Texas. Walleye Dec 2020 #18

The thing is TX is turning blue rapidly JCMach1 Dec 2020 #31

Well of course I was kidding. I don't believe in such a thing as bad states in good states. Walleye Dec 2020 #32

No it isn't vercetti2021 Dec 2020 #35

Oh fuck no! lark Dec 2020 #19

Thats how I feel. William769 Dec 2020 #26

Pay your share of the national debt on the way out. And of course we'll have to move our military ba keithbvadu2 Dec 2020 #21

Don't forget tariffs. No FEMA funds for hurricanes. No Medicare to your foreign country. keithbvadu2 Dec 2020 #23

Yes, states' right include responsibilities treestar Dec 2020 #39

Headline: "Florida Man Speaks Nonsense" MineralMan Dec 2020 #24

Good...TX says the same. With FL & TX gone, the pukes will never win an election again! Thekaspervote Dec 2020 #28

Let Florida go sanatanadharma Dec 2020 #30

So if they are allowed to secede, they will lose the money they get from the federal government marie999 Dec 2020 #33

That income tax is a non-starter. Baitball Blogger Dec 2020 #41

There isn't much difference between FL and MI or WI TheRealNorth Dec 2020 #36

We can get creative. Baitball Blogger Dec 2020 #40

... William769 Dec 2020 #42