The cost/benefit analysis to secession
SuperDude
Detroit, Michigan
Monday, March 1, 2010 6:15 AM
In the event of secession, the United States of America should undertake the following steps in a new relationship with the Republic of Texas:
1 Immediately remove or close all U.S. military installations and transfer all military and civilian staff to bases in the remaining 49 states.
2. Close all U.S. Post Offices and other U.S. Federal Government installations and transfer staff.
3. Stop the flow of any and all federal dollars into the Republic of Texas. If they want to negotiate a treaty, maybe something can get worked out.
4. Notify all banks, airlines and other businesses with headquarters in Texas that they are now headquartered in a foreign country and will be treated accordingly under U.S. law. Foreign banks and airlines, for instance, face severe restrictions operating in the U.S.A. Ironically, American Airlines, headquartered in Dallas, might be barred from flying domestic passengers in the 49 states, but could fly passengers from the Republic of Texas into the United States. Comerica Bank, N.A.just left Detroit and moved its headquarters to Dallas. Now they are a foreign bank. Close all of their branches in the U.S.?
4. Would the currency of the Republic of Texas have any value in the USA? Would it be accepted at the border the way some Detroit businesses used to accept Canadian money?
5. Passports, visas, travel permits?
6. Tariffs on shipping almost everything in and out of Texas will change the price of goods.
7. If terrorists attack the Republic of Texas, is the U.S. obligated to defend Texas, absent a treaty to that effect?
8. If a radical government gains power in Mexico and that government renounces the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hildalgo, can Mexico reclaim Texas? Is the USA required to defend Texas if the Mexicans decide to march in.
9. Will Texans have dual citizenship or will they have to choose between the two in a new Pledge of Allegiance.
None of this belongs on this board.
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