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Pro-Trump Counties Vote to Secede from Illinois, Form New Red State (www.ibtimes.com)

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[–] finitebanjo 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Maybe Illinois should give them what they want and stop any and all state or federal funding of the region until they beg to be let back in. I'm feeling a little vindictive today.

Keep taxing them, too, since they haven't paid for the land.

[–] pwnicholson 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Federal funding wouldn't stop. But shared state tax revenue from Chicago would

[–] finitebanjo 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The federal funding is provided to the state of Illinois, so the counties need the state treasury to provide federal funding to them.

[–] pwnicholson 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If they were granted secession by the federal Congress they would be a state and get federal funding. That's the only way they'd leave.

[–] finitebanjo 3 points 1 month ago

Yes but that circumstance could happen regardless of actions taken by the state of Illinois so it doesn't have any impact on the plans I laid out.