A redneck nation full of 'sour grapes'. This reminds me of the graffiti I saw scrawled on a wall in Amsterdam in 1980, "USA out of north America".
Most of the people behind these petitions to the White House requesting they be allowed to sucede from the union probably don't realize that their state could loose a massive amount of federal tax dollars and infrastructure support if they became independent nations.
What would supposedly happen to the social security and medicare of residents of these states? Funny, it could be a great way to balance the federal budget if we just let them go. The end result of their succession would probably be a massive tax increase for them and a dramatic shredding of the social contract as they have known it. Never the less they are being 'egged on' by FoxNews and right wing internet blogs who love to continue to harp the mantra of bullshit in their conservative bubble of right wing misinformation.
Listed below are the twenty state so far who apparently want to sucede with a color indication of how they voted in the Presidential election. Seven of the states actually paid more in federal taxes then they got back versus 13 that did not. Next to each state is the amount in billions of dollars that each state received or paid in federal revenue for the period 1990 to 2009.
Alabama received 290.6
Arkansas paid 17
Colorado paid 100.7
Florida received 298.7
Georgia paid 99.5
Indiana received 10.2
Kentucky received 207.5
Louisiana received 203.5
Michigan paid 196.8
Mississippi received 239.9
Missouri received 70.8
Montana received 64.5
New Jersey paid 705.7
New York paid 956.2
North Carolina received 17.8
North Dakota received 48.7
Oregon paid 11.8
South Carolina received 198.4
Texas paid 398.8
Tennessee received 81.3
Data via Census Bureau, IRS and The Economist Magazine
