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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 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] finitebanjo 16 points 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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.