Michael Smith--The Spark That Finally Ignites The Secession Conflagration | The Rio Norte Line

The Spark That Finally Ignites The Secession Conflagration | The Rio Norte Line
"On his Friday radio show, conservative talker and Fox News host Sean Hannity warned that the United States may fall apart if tax rates remain high.
...While I would prefer that we actually govern ourselves under a true federalist national model as the Founders intended, I’m beginning to believe that is going to be impossible.
...I think think the catalyst, the spark that sets the whole shebang aflame and finally pushes this over the edge will be what comes of three things that I was thinking about when reading about Hannity’s statements:

• States with lower tax rates are going to draw greater populations and more revenue generating businesses,
• They are going to object to paying for the spending in the spendthrift states,
• Population and business shifts will deplete the tax base of states with entrenched governments, unfunded pension liabilities and powerful public sector unions, thereby exacerbating the problems in states like Illinois, New York and California.

I predict that the straw that finally breaks the camel’s back will be a lawsuit, one filed by a high tax state like California against states that have low or no state income or property tax rates because they are unfairly “pricing” their states, the effect of which is to rob the high tax states of the taxpayers necessary to support their respective state governments. 

If the burden is increased in one state by out-migration to another, that will be called “unfair” and I think these states will turn to the courts for a remedy.
...The battle lines are about to be drawn in a little more stark relief.

Mark my words, we are headed for a crisis of constitutional proportions and it will be started by a lawsuit."

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