RE: The Absurd GOP
February 27, 2023 at 4:03 am
(This post was last modified: February 27, 2023 at 4:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
None of that will change. It will still be the case that resources from red areas end up in blue areas. The people doing the work will have fewer (if any) labor protections and the people consuming the resources will pay more for them. In all likelihood, the companies will be headquartered for tax purposes in the red areas..but the owners and shareholders will live in the blue areas along with their consumers.
It's more of the same that got us to this point...miners in redneckistan keeping the lights on for coastal suburbia. Just more expensive for you and more cruel for them. Honestly, the entire bit is ridiculous, right down to the belief that the relatively higher taxes in blue areas are a wholly domestic phenomena to blue areas. Sure, I suppose blue areas could look elsewhere. They could exploit more people in the third world or in their own inner cities...for example. Six of one, half a dozen of another. A national divorce is good for no one, and blue areas would be crushed by it just the same as red. The only real difference being that the blue areas have more to lose. The confederates lost. There's no consolation prize. No sawing off a chunk of the us and handing it to them because they're all up in their feels about it more than a century later. They can self deport, or go grab their guns again. The deep red town I live in will never not be the us of a, and I think it's ridiculous to negotiate it away from afar for fantasies of wealth or convenience.
It's more of the same that got us to this point...miners in redneckistan keeping the lights on for coastal suburbia. Just more expensive for you and more cruel for them. Honestly, the entire bit is ridiculous, right down to the belief that the relatively higher taxes in blue areas are a wholly domestic phenomena to blue areas. Sure, I suppose blue areas could look elsewhere. They could exploit more people in the third world or in their own inner cities...for example. Six of one, half a dozen of another. A national divorce is good for no one, and blue areas would be crushed by it just the same as red. The only real difference being that the blue areas have more to lose. The confederates lost. There's no consolation prize. No sawing off a chunk of the us and handing it to them because they're all up in their feels about it more than a century later. They can self deport, or go grab their guns again. The deep red town I live in will never not be the us of a, and I think it's ridiculous to negotiate it away from afar for fantasies of wealth or convenience.
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