Apparently Musk and his band of kids are at the NOAA headquarters Agenda 2025 calls for the agency to be broken up.

Honestly this league idea isn’t the worst one I’ve ever heard. On the other hand I think they tried that in the mid 1800s and the north was kinda opposed to the idea.

The league idea doesn’t split the nation. It just reapportions taxation. Federal taxes are reduced for each citizen by something on the magnitude of 25% (a rough guess), representing the costs incurred by department of education, HUD , health, etc. Defense, commerce, treasury, roads, etc all remain…

[image] freighterman1: The league idea doesn’t split the nation. It just reapportions taxation They do this in China. Ask the rural communities how it’s working out for them as opposed to say, Shanghai or Beijing.

One thing I notice now in American culture is this: state bashing. Fifteen minutes don’t go by on the Fox network without them bashing the Blue states as dystopian shitholes dragging the country down. California is the number one target. Western cities in general are singled out. As opposed to the w…

[image] freighterman1: but because the member states would be politically aligned with each other the redistribution of wealth within the league would come with much less friction I can’t tell if this whole thing is a bit or you’re actually serious? You want to segregate the country based on …

[image] The Science of Climate Change You’d have to explain to me how I am segregating anything. You’re saying there’d he leagues based on politics. That’s segregating two different groups.

You’re tilting at windmills, he worships Trump, so in his mind Trump can do no wrong

[image] BeerCaptain: You’re saying there’d he leagues based on politics. That’s segregating two different groups. Reapportioning taxation on the basis of politics is what Congress does every damn day. I’m just setting up a more rational system for the least essential part of it. :grinning:

Besides, the U.S. is already “segregated” by politics. Frankly the U.S. either finds a way to an am amicable separation or there will likely be an ugly one. Seriously watch the docudrama Say Nothing for what this would look like. Not at all the right wing Rambo fantasies.

[image] The Science of Climate Change Do you need more? I only need one peer reviewed study which proves (not simply asserts) that human emissions (and not natural emissions) warm the world temperature. There aren’t any. Numbers of papers that simply declare human caused CO2 emissions doesn’…

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