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While I agree with Ron Paul that there is a legitimate case that can made for the right of states to secede….I think he is cavalier in his denunciations of the encroaching federal government on the states whose residents Sarah Palin describes as "real Americans".
I invite readers to consult the distribution maps of the relative amounts of money that gets redistributed back to the individual states for each dollar they pay in federal taxes. People may be shocked to learn that the southern and western states get back an average of about $1.30 for each dollar they pay in federal income tax, while the "liberal" northeastern states get back about 80 cents in services for each dollar they pay in federal income tax.
More importantly, if Texas were to secede the impact (completely ignored by Ron Paul) would be catastrophic. Bear in mind that the Texas economy is largely a dependent on huge United States military bases that would be immediately closed upon secession, in addition to gigantic United States military contracts to private Texas companies that would be terminated.
And don't forget that immediately following secession, all social security and medicare recipients in the former state of Texas would be terminated.
It is one thing for local "patriots" to talk tough; and it is another thing entirely for them to live with the consequences of talking spit.
Any talk of "secession" at this stage sets up the stage for mockery and calls for the sanity of the proclaimer. Ron Paul may have good ideas, but those ideas of radical change are in the "Twilight Zone". Our forefathers didn't bear arms against Great Britain over "pop" issues of the day, it was abuses of a crazy king over time, that was the final straw to otherwise loyal colonists to the Crown.
The USA won't break apart over some trival "pop" issues. The only thing that would call for it is a truly crazy federal government, and one that the truly average American citizen has no representation (e.g., had no opportunity to elect an official of their chosing). "No taxation without representation" meant more of the latter, than the former (as people have been paying taxes since before Rome). King George III would not listen to the colonists, and the colonists got fed up and revolted. That is not what is happening now, we may not like what we're seeing, but Americans are being represented at home and in Washington.