Which will lead to violence. Now, if that's what needs to happen, so be it, but let's not pretend that the Trump Administration will just let blue states not pay federal taxes.
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A large portion of the outflow of federal funds to red states has to do with the existence of large military bases. The notion that we're just going to turn that off and everything will be ok, is fantasy. At -best- you get a military coup that tries to restore order.
aug 30, 2025, 11:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Do you have a source that that is the primary driver for red states and their federal funds deficit? As far as I know, there are lots of military bases in blue states as well.
aug 31, 2025, 1:10 am • 1 0 • view
I stand corrected on that that math, the bases I'm most familiar with are in Texas and Florida, but the largest standing force is in California and the balance is more evenly distributed than I would have guessed. I don't think this changes my underlying calculus. Soft secession ends badly.
aug 31, 2025, 1:45 am • 0 0 • view
These things are fun thought exercises but it's a fact that the billionaire class and their Republican stooges created this nightmare, and only a mass popular movement that puts the fear of god in them will end it (though a massive cerebrovascular accident or cardiac event might help).
aug 30, 2025, 11:48 pm • 1 0 • view
The only (relatively bloodless) way out of this is indeed the people emphatically rejecting Trump, the GOP, and their power structure.
aug 31, 2025, 12:41 am • 1 0 • view
And anyone who thinks a military coup is a particularly good answer to this problem needs to talk to ANYONE who has witnessed a military coup.
aug 31, 2025, 12:40 am • 1 0 • view
Oh, no, for sure that's a terrible answer.
aug 31, 2025, 12:44 am • 1 0 • view
But we can do it. A Fed Tax strike from blue state residents. They’ve cut so much IRS funding there’s no one left to come take it.
aug 30, 2025, 2:01 am • 20 0 • view