New proposal for near-bankrupt Illinois: dissolve it and divide its territory among the surrounding states: Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky.
Sounds ok, but speaking for Wisconsin, can we maybe give Chicago to Mexico?
New proposal for near-bankrupt Illinois: dissolve it and divide its territory among the surrounding states: Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky.
Sounds ok, but speaking for Wisconsin, can we maybe give Chicago to Mexico?
New proposal for near-bankrupt Illinois: dissolve it and
divide its territory amongbankrupt the surrounding states: Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and Kentucky too.But then there will be only be 56 states, we better make Puerto Rico a full fledged welfare state and let them vote, it would cost too much to change all the flags.(said some brilliant democrat).
I wonder if they’ve considered doing something about what’s bankrupting them in the first place…? Hint: it’s starts with “free” and it’s only given to people who don’t work, you know, as a …reward…or something.
It would also stimulate jobs among flag makers and retail, as we have to replace all those outdated 50 star flags!
Added bonus: two fewer US senators to pay!
But won’t the added weight on the surrounding states cause them to tip over and fall into the Great Lakes?
Sounds ok, but speaking for Wisconsin, can we maybe give Chicago to Mexico?
How about taking the counties bordering Lake Michigan from Chicago to Milwaukee and making them their own state? Milwaukee has become rather a jungle itself.
Take away their Statehood, yes all their voting rights etc., etc and put them under Federal receivorship like any bankrupt company. Have the President appoint an acting Governor with confirmation by house and Senate and establish a procedure for what it has to do with its finances to be readmitted.
I’m far from sure that the Constitution permits any of that, much less all of it.
The Constitution allows states to secede, why not recede? (Removes tongue from cheek)
Yes the Constitution is silent on the matter, so there is no direct authority. The only thing that holds is admitting states. “New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.” It leaves it up to Congress to determine how. I suppose the same would apply to removing a state, legally, from membership in the Union.
“They put one of our cities in financial receivership, we put one of our cities in the financial morgue. It’s the Chicago way.”
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Community organizing. Thanks, Founders, for limiting the country to eight years of it.
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living in CA , Illinois is the reason I never play the lottery(that and a basic grasp of math), since California is sure to be next.
The Lottery is a legal method to tax stupidity.