ntsqd said:
Oh, the semi-annual "Split up KA movement" is upon us again....
sigh.......
Yeah, at least the third such attempt I recall. One of the main reasons I believe pigs will fly before it ever happens is the "new" state will need to reimburse California for the costs of the infrastructure built by the state. So they will have to come up with enough money to pay for the dams, highways, schools and colleges, prisons, courts, state parks, etc. So the new state starts out on day one hundreds of billions of dollars in debt. Not to mention the new state will now be financially responsible to maintain the infrastructure. These are all lower population counties that want to do this and their premise is lower taxes. So with fewer people to tax and you are taxing them very little, where is that money going to come from? Sure they will be able to sell more resources like lumber, water, and mining leases, but those will bring several billion a year, pennies on the dollar of what is needed.
Yay, no more bureaucrats telling us we can't catch this fish or burn our trash or pump water out of that creek. Oh-oh, suddenly there is no more CHP, Department of Education building schools, unemployment, Cal Fire to fight those big rural fires that will come. Going to have new license plates and licenses for your state? Gotta start your own DMV. Maintaining all those roads will require your own department of transportation. Those dams you now run will require your own department of water resources. And on and on.
Guess what, "New California", "Jefferson", or whatever you want to call it suddenly has all the bureaucracy old California had but with less chance of being able to pay for it. Go buy a lotto ticket - the odds of winning are better than the odds of California being split.