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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

What about New Mexico?
If the US can have Alaska, we can join Canada, right?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Those aren't the states I picture as being closely connected to Canada, but maybe that's because I'm jealous

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

no fair man. illinois. illinois.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

Everybody hates Illinois. People who live there even hate it. I was born there and promptly left.

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[–] chonglibloodsport 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (18 children)

Yeah, right. If California joined they’d be subsidizing health care for the rest of Canada through transfer payments since every province would be considered a “have not province” compared to California.

This is like inviting your billionaire uncle to move in with you and also open a joint bank account.

Edit: just to put some numbers on my point, the GSP (gross state product) of California is $4 trillion, nearly twice that of the GDP of Canada which is $2.18 trillion. Canada’s economy would effectively triple in size by bringing in California.

[–] Brkdncr 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes subsidized healthcare is the goal.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

So?

Do you understand the goal of transfer payments? Because from what you just said you already don't understand how it works.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Calling Elizabeth May a lawmaker is the most credibility the federal Green party has ever gotten

[–] DrFistington 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hey, take illinois. Its connected via the great lakes, and we may be #12 in terms of GDP, about 50-60%% of goods travelling by rail or road through the US have to go through us.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Maryland. I'm in. It's closer than you think.

[–] FunnyUsername 8 points 2 weeks ago

Minnesota is basically already there

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Hey... don't forget Vermont!

[–] timmy_dean_sausage 6 points 2 weeks ago

Can we get a relocation care package for all of the reasonable people stuck in red state hell-holes!? I'd move to literally any blue state if I had the resources and reassurance it won't be sucked into US federal far right bs. So done with this scam country.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Let the negotiations begin xD kek

[–] Fisherman75 5 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Technically that would make king charles my head of state seeing as I live in California. Not into that. A lot of pros/advantages though, I'll say that much.

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