2nd U.S. Civil War?
CNN.com has an article detailing a growing movement in state legislatures to reclaim power from the federal government. None of these measure have yet passed and become law, but with rhetoric being thrown around like “”immoral and unconscionable” and expressing the need to “salvage freedom and protect sovereignty” how long before someone introduces a bill to secede?
In the modern era where we’ve allowed the federal government to grow so far beyond it’s original place, could a state even entertain the notion of secession from the Union? The federal government now takes money directly from citizens of all states and graciously grants some of that back to state governments. How quickly could a state begin intercepting payroll taxes so that money goes where it belongs and the state could start using it to replace federal services?
How closely did President Obama want to be compared to Lincoln?
Update:
Apparently if/when Texas secedes, Chuck Norris may run for president.