This has been discussed before and I think you took a strong stance in support. As was noted in the older thread, if Texas were to become an independent country again, then there's no guarantee the U.S. would be buying our goods and services. There goes a big percentage of our state GNP.PriestTheRunner wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:06 pmWhile I agree with everything you have said, I think you are missing my main point. It is not legally viable for the federal government to require things not authorized to them in the Constitution. Anything not authorized to them falls to the states. Education should (and does) fall to the states for provision and enforcement. As such, it should be illegal for the federal government to earmark (or more accurately hold fiducially hostage) funds for specific purposes.
I think South Dakota vs Dole was incorrectly decided. As well as some other cases before it (such as Wickard vs Filburn).
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/educa ... dole-1987/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
It is not withing the federal government's authority to have anything to do with education and as such they have no authority to provide specific funding towards any related program.
While I think these programs are beneficial to society, it should be up to Texas and our representatives how taxes for education be spent. If Texit happened next year and we wanted to keep all of these programs, we could do so while being financially stable and reducing taxation by about 25%-30%. Those programs wouldn't instantly be gone, but they would instantly be decided by Texans instead of the US as a whole.
Also, don't doubt that democrats want Texit as well in decent numbers.
This Rueters polling from 2014 (a bit old) shows 30.1% support for Texit from Democrats alone. It shows 40.2% support from Republicans.
If every democrat voted against Texit, it would likely never pass, but there are significant number of them open to and actively supporting the idea.
http://polling.reuters.com/#!response/T ... psed/false
Also, Republicans lost 12 seats in the Texas House and 2 in the Senate yesterday. That fact cannot be ignored or explained away. It's long past time for the Republican Party to appeal to Hispanics who are natural-born Republicans in terms of values and beliefs. Immigration is the only real issue between us. Yes, there are others, but they are relatively insignificant.
There will be no Texit.
Chas.