cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/24857135
There’s precedent for it, with West Virginia. The problem is that the way that the Senate works makes what could have been a local issue extremely national.
Maybe Illinois should give them what they want and stop any and all state or federal funding of the region until they beg to be let back in. I’m feeling a little vindictive today.
Keep taxing them, too, since they haven’t paid for the land.
Federal funding wouldn’t stop. But shared state tax revenue from Chicago would
The federal funding is provided to the state of Illinois, so the counties need the state treasury to provide federal funding to them.
If they were granted secession by the federal Congress they would be a state and get federal funding. That’s the only way they’d leave.
Weird way to break the 51st state into existence, but ok.
Okay now I would like Dallas County to secede from Texas because Texas has an awful state government. Our top prosecutor is literally a criminal.
Texas actually has the right to divide itself into five states. If it had done so earlier, Gore and Hillary would have won the electoral college because at least one of those states would be blue.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/more-150-years-texas-has-had-power-secede-itself-180962354/
They try this bullshit every few years despite being propped up by taxes from the populated northeastern corner of the state.
