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Would you secede?

Started by Josquius, June 24, 2014, 04:34:00 AM

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Yes
2 (20%)
No
8 (80%)

Total Members Voted: 10

garbon

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Admiral Yi

After having read Squeeze's OP again, my answer is: I doubt the central government, which is allegedly more generous to people living on one side of an internal border than the other, would recognize the change.

Josquius

Quote from: garbon on June 24, 2014, 07:47:45 AM
1200 a year?
Random number pulled out of my arse.
Seemed like a  nice enough number to make most people materially better off but not enough to make it a definite decision.
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Valmy

I sort of have that ability.  I can move just outside of Austin and get Austin goodies without paying Austin taxes.  But I don't because my identity is tied to being an Austinite and not some freeloading Cedar Park (or Pflugerville or Round Rock or whatever) piece of crap.
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garbon

Quote from: Tyr on June 24, 2014, 08:07:46 AM
Quote from: garbon on June 24, 2014, 07:47:45 AM
1200 a year?
Random number pulled out of my arse.
Seemed like a  nice enough number to make most people materially better off but not enough to make it a definite decision.

Then no. Though really it would actually have to be something fairly significant to have me vote to be part of another polity.
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The Brain

£1200 a year isn't significant, but that's a very minor point. I will just read significant without any specific number.

I probably wouldn't vote yes. Secession tends to bring out the kooks and I'd rather not side with them. But if my significantly better economy is due to lower taxes then maybe I'd vote yes, as a fuck you to Socialism.


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Barrister

We have a town right on the Alberta-Saskatchewan border - Lloydminster.  The town is split neatly in two by the border.  It made prosecuting there slightly more complicated because we had to make sure which side of town the offence happened in.

Anyways, from what  I understand people there prefer to live on the Saskatchewan side of the border because they can take advantage of cheap government mandated car insurance, while most new businesses set themselves up on the Alberta side in order to take advantage of lower tax rates.
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Admiral Yi

Which sort of makes one wonder why the residents of  Berwick just don't move across the border if they're so motivated by free money.

Barrister

I stayed in a B&B in Berwick-upon-Tweed on our way back from our honeymoon in Scotland.  Very nice little town with some well preserved medeival walls (back from when England and Scotland would frequently fight over the town).
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The Brain

Quote from: Ed Anger on June 24, 2014, 04:00:52 PM
The problem with Scotland is that it is full of Scots.

You want it to be Scot free?
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Norgy

Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 24, 2014, 11:39:44 AM
Which sort of makes one wonder why the residents of  Berwick just don't move across the border if they're so motivated by free money.

My only known fact about Berwick: Berwick Rangers plays in the Scottish League rather than the English League.

Josquius

Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 24, 2014, 11:39:44 AM
Which sort of makes one wonder why the residents of  Berwick just don't move across the border if they're so motivated by free money.
Apparently they are. Houses just over the border are in high demand.
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