We won't have to. They're $450 Billion in debt to bondholders, have sky-high local taxes (10% in some places) and their constitution was amended to peg property taxes at a flat 1% of property value, starving local governments and forcing reliance on State and Federal funds for solvency as a result. And despite the sky-high income and carbon taxes they charge, they still have the worst roads in the nation (aside from D.C., but D.C. isn't a state). Cut off Federal funds from secession, and pull all military bases and hardware from the area, and the newly-founded country will be bankrupt within 6 months, if that long.
Creditors will tear them apart, if the constant infighting between "Inner-city youths" and "Migrants who just want to make something of themselves" don't do it first.
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CrazyInAnInsaneWorld ago
We won't have to. They're $450 Billion in debt to bondholders, have sky-high local taxes (10% in some places) and their constitution was amended to peg property taxes at a flat 1% of property value, starving local governments and forcing reliance on State and Federal funds for solvency as a result. And despite the sky-high income and carbon taxes they charge, they still have the worst roads in the nation (aside from D.C., but D.C. isn't a state). Cut off Federal funds from secession, and pull all military bases and hardware from the area, and the newly-founded country will be bankrupt within 6 months, if that long.
Creditors will tear them apart, if the constant infighting between "Inner-city youths" and "Migrants who just want to make something of themselves" don't do it first.