If Texas can secede, then please, can Northern Virginia ...

[11 Bravo]

tell the Repug-dominated legislature to take a flying fuck at a rolling donut and go our own way? We are the economic engine which drives the Commonwealth, and we are sick of having locally adopted socially liberal policies being overturned by Richmond.
You shit heads go merrily along voting to mandate school prayer and outlaw consensual sex, and don't forget to keep cutting taxes! Of course when NOVA, which pays the lion's share of VA taxes and receives about 70 cents on the dollar in return is gone, and you can no longer afford to pay teachers, cops, sanitation workers, road crews, or anyone else, you may have to re-think that whole tax thing. But in the meantime, fuck off.

[county worker]

1. Here's the funny part. If a state could secede it would have to raise taxes to fund a military and

and other functions a federal government does. Instead of lower taxes and less spending the residents would get higher taxes and higher spending.

[xchrom]

4. oh and think of the trade agreements a government llike that

would have to make.

i hate nafta -- but if cali went it's own way -- o. my. god. -- the republicans would suffer from instantaneous combustion.

[Hugabear]

6. And they'd have to go through the legal process to enter the US

Wouldn't want to have them crossing into the US illegally, would they? Not only that, but forget about them getting education or health care over here.

[Orsino]

7. Better yet, let's ask Gov. Perry when he plans to withdraw Texas' troops from Iraq/Afghanistan. n/t

[norepubsin08]

2. I would like to invite Eastern Washington

to withdraw from the union also and go the way of Texas...all the progressive liberal initiatives come from the Western side of the state and also along with the vast lion's share of taxes.

[AspenRose]

3. Hell yeah, comrade!

People's Republic of Northern Virginia! :woohoo:

[kwassa]

5. and then NoVa could leave the Confederacy and join the Union ...

I recommended the same thing awhile ago. Virginia has the most screwed-up state legislature around, full of mini-factions of Republicans that hate each other! as weird as can be. It is as progressive and regressive as a state can be, with the progressive all focused in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. where all the money is, too.

a new state flag?