Scottish Independence Referendum

I wish the USA would let a few states vote on their own sovereignty. Maybe we could off load Texas....maybe Mexico could take them back.

Texas has the third largest federal 'deficit' at $313 billion. That is, Texas receives $313 billion more in federal money than it pays via taxes. So it's sort of dead weight

I was just passing through and thought I'd add my tuppence worth.

As an English woman, I'd like to say that unlike many English folk, I'm not too worried about the break up of the Union. I'm not saying that the Union is a bad thing, just that I don't think it's an absolute imperative for our future well being, either north or south of the border.

I reckon we'll get on better if we are independent of each other. Better a friendly neighbour than a surly partner.... and there is no denying that the Scots have been very surly partners indeed.

The prosperity / economic issues will be dealt with as they arise.

The only thing I find ironic about it all, is that the Scots, many of whom are amongst the most ardent of anti-Europeans, will happily vote for an independent Scotland which will want to join the EU, at a time when the English are clamouring for a referendum to take us out of it...!!

You couldn't make it up, could you..?

The only thing I really wish for is for this referendum to be the end of it, one way or another. If the majority vote to stay within the Union, then the antis should just suck it up, bow to the will of the majority and let's hear no more of it.

If they do decide to go their own way, then I say good luck to them. Let the voting commence.

Didn't you get banned? f***ing hell.

I could've sworn she left because she was pregnant. Like...a year or two ago.

I think this was it.

I of course have no stake in the matter, but it seems to me like a union would be beneficial to all, while independence would just be a nuisance, if for any other reason than for the fact you'd have to create brand new infrastructure to replace what you'd lose by leaving.

Yet I bet most of that deficit is because of aid towards farming and, more importantly, ranching. Which brings up another point. We get rid of Texas and you'll have to give up hamburgers. Or at least, will have to pay much more for hamburgers.

We could still get beef from Nebraska, Kansas, California, Oklahoma, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Colorado...etc.

In addition, we could get high quality beef at low prices from such countries as Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Brazil (those countries also have other things we could use also, like oil, natural gas and lithium...etc. )

Beef is not a good enough reason to cling to Texas.

It's a reason, not the only reason. There's actually no good reason to start carving up the country like that in the 1st place. Especially if your only reason for wanting it is because you don't like their political leanings.

Wasn't there a petition where many Texans were saying that they wanted to leave the USA?

Yes... seems to me it happened right after the last presidential election...



But, IF i wanted to carve Texas out of the USA, it would be a fiscal issue, not a "political leanings" issue.

We should rename it "Taxus."

Then they would be Taxusans...

No. They would be Taxuns.

Not Taxesicans?