Archive name: texas-faq
Author: ***** staff
Last Update: July 04, 2002
Keywords: Republic of Texas, Texas Secession, Texas Secede
Contents
I. Why
II. Plan
III. Methods
IV. Resources
Sections
I. Why
As the modern state of Texas finds itself rapidly being forced into
conformity with the rules, cultural standards and expectations of the
United States as an increasingly generic whole, our thoughts turn to
the wisdom of our forbears who desired independent states collaborating
in a larger treaty organization, not unlike Europe at the time of this
writing. With the centralization of American government and society
through the use of economics and media, our society has begun to
transform itself into a global power with the corresponding obligations
for its citizens and former free republics.
Our view is that Texas' entry into the Union was a beneficial partner-
ship for both parties involved. We provided more land and a military
outpost against any nation entering through the Mexican border, and
the United States would provide military protection and a trading
partner. The same are still true, except that Texas provides now a
large share of revenue in taxes and value-added manufacturing,
intellectual property and agricultural output. Many raw materials come
from Texas natural resources. Texas has contributed its share to the
wealth of the United States.
At this point in time, however, the United States also has massive
revenue streams in other parts of the country, notably California and
the east coast, which provide for it an entirely reasonable income for
a superpower of its size, and demonstrate that while Texas is important
it is not essential to the continuation of the U.S. economy. Our primary
arguments are that decentralization provides advantages in long-term
decision-making for the species as a whole, and that having a separate
but friendly trading partner would strengthen the economy of the north
American states.
II. Plan
Economy
* Tariff-reduced trade between U.S. and Texas
* Trade Texas-produced goods without value added tax
* Texas would socialize economic utilities and raw materials
* Texas will not tax, or VAT, outbound U.S. goods or
raw materials.
* Value-added tax on Mexican goods and products
Culture
* Texas benefits from national identity encouraging
competing cultural development
* We allow for different Texas cultures to be given
statehood within Texas
* Our school system will enter our most oft-quoted research
into a computer network for use by Texas children.
* Separate national identity allows funding of cultural
events through profits from marketing the resulting Texas
identity abroad.
Society
* Drugs are legalized, prison costs reduced, and funds
will be transferred instead to proactive anti-crime work.
* A reduction of taxes except sales taxes will provide
funds for social investment.
* We will acknowledge environmental concerns and work to
clean up Texas outdoors to provide a positive social role
model.
* An "anarchy zone" will be established in which behaviors
not accepted by mainstream society are given a chance to be
expressed.
* Rules on public behavior will be relaxed and monitoring
of citizens will not occur in social contract exchange for
a network of citizens who stop violent crimes only.
* Firearms will be licensed and allowed in most forms
provided they are used ethically, and in some areas, the
requirement that each individual carry a gun will be
enforced.
III. Methods
Our method is simple: acknowledge the benefits of Texas
secession and then appeal with logic to the United States
in conjunction with Texas voters, requesting formally for
severance of our national ties and the inception of political
intercourse according to our plan.
After careful study, many of those who suport Texas secession
have come to realize that Texas voters will approve of change
if there is a clear benefit, which can logically be expressed
as the following:
* Decentralization makes stronger leadership
Centralized republics can have a single approach to any
situation, where diversified trading groups do not act
together and therefore are able to approach a problem
from several angles until an avenue of success is found.
Further, they have a higher survivability rate as a larger
when facing enemies with weapons of mass destruction.
In a decentralized approach, nations retain unique
national character and cultural aspects, creating for
each a national brand which can be marketed as a cobrand
to a large number of products. Their responses to economic
fluctuations will vary as well, through the diverse nature
of local regulations, and therefore economic disaster will
not strike as quickly or be as devastating.
* Economic benefits of a friendly trading partner
With the United States and Texas being separate economic
entities comes the ability to balance one another through
trade. The United States benefits from a low-tariff ally
which purchases and consumes U.S. goods and services, but
also now has a country through which raw materials from
other nations can undergo value-added manufacturing or
intellectual property conversion, providing to the U.S.
a cheaper source of basic consumer goods and services
without the overhead of a tariff or an unduly competing
partner.
As a friendly competitor, Texans can contribute innovation
and market leadership to areas where the U.S. is temporally
lagging. Its protection of U.S. patents and copyrights makes
it an ideal test market and goods exchange partner, and its
record for business innovation suggests it would be a positive
counterbalance to the U.S. economic system as a whole as modified
by political initiative.
IV. Resources
http://www.*****.com/etc/texas/
* Primary site of this facet of the Texas secessionist movement
* Has a list of web resources for the study of the history, culture(s),
social standards and language(s) of Texas and the Republic of Texas
* Permanent host of this FAQ and soon home to a mailing list for
Texas secession
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