Residents attending the supervisors meeting were virtually unanimous in supporting the predominantly Republican county’s secession. According to the Redding Record Searchlight, a local paper, one member of the board of supervisors raised a laundry list of complaints related to “regulation, restriction of rights, lack of representation, regionalism and restoration of limited government.” A staffer from Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s (R-CA) office attended the meeting and claimed that “she and other LaMalfa staff members supported the effort to secede, but she did not know LaMalfa’s thoughts on it.”
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Such an outcome is unlikely, however, as the Constitution provides that “no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.”
Of course there was no talk on what the 'new' state would do for revenue... No talk of taxes to pay for the services they get from the state. This area is mostly mountains and trees, not much more. The only thing they have to offer is the trees so logging would have to be the major industry, yet logging is a finite resource. These people just want their cake and not pay for it. Typical right-wing thinking of Me Me Me Me and screw you...
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