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‘A dystopian plot’: how will Trump’s Project 2025 affect California?
(www.theguardian.com)
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I hate to admit this but, as a CA resident, I think I might be OK with leaving the union. Let Mississippi fix its own damn roads.
the program ended a couple years ago, but for a period of time, California paid an additional set of taxes to make up for shortfalls in other states – in other words, several Red states could only stay afloat because of handouts from California
No that still happens, mostly in blue states they pay more in taxes than they receive back from the Fed. And a lot of shit hole red states get more from the Fed than they pay.
CA itself is the 5th largest economy on the planet. Seems like a fine plan to have it leave, since the rest of the country can't function without it.
DC will never let such a productive powerhouse go. No country would give that up. If that's what they want, they should remember what happened last time and prepare for it. I'll be in the Canadian wilderness collecting bottle caps and watching from a distance if y'all need me.
How many bottle caps are you finding in the canadian wilderness?
They won't know until they go there to find out
Hey now, the west coast (especially the northern half) is very much one region which works together. The states are largely similar in terms of culture and politics and even sometimes work together on shared legislative goals.
It wouldn't be California leaving. It would be the whole west coast.
Well let's be honest here and admit that is because CA is part of the United States and a lot of trade would disappear if it was leaving the ~~bunion~~.
I don't think CA is gonna leave the bunion.
No. That's not why.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP