Too bad Leeches. You can't just skip out on your responsibilities like a redneck in wife-beater sneaking out of his trailer park. Elections have consequences.
Seeing how in one year the federal govt extracts over 250 billion from Texas, I don't think a mealy 17 billion is too much to ask for back.
Suppose that Texas did secede, but refused to reimburse the funds. What would the American federal government do about it?
There was no such condition attached to the use of Federal "stimulus" funds. Texas has no obligation at all to pay it back.
The national debt is $16 261.2 billion. Paying $17.4 billion or even ten times that amount would be a good deal to get out of having to share that burden and the massive interest repayments would be a bargain.
No, it doesn't. There was no such condition (the obligation to pay them back) attached to the use of those federal stimulus funds. Okay, then why did you start a thread about it?
Texas pays SUBSTANTIALLY MORE taxes than it receives, about $400 billion MORE from 1990-2009: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/08/americas-fiscal-union Kinda dwarfs the $17 billion the OP mistakenly deludes Texas would owe the Feds, in the unlikely event of their recession from the union.
Typical neo-con leech behavior. How about acting like a man and paying your debts instead of sponging off successful liberals?
but texas is creating most of the small business jobs not attribute to treats from the government that are mostly highway funds, going to construction contractors outside the state and illegals working there temporarily. http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2...tober-among-the-highest-rate-nationally.html/
Yeah all those fuc*ing illegals we have to pay for and educate. So perhaps the Fed. GOv. need to compensate the bread basket red states for their slack immigration policy and the SCOUTS interfering with the states rights when they try to fix things (AZ anyone?). Lefty get a clue.
Okay... but just play along. What would the Fed do if Texas did secede yet refused to pay back funds?
They would call in their debt and Texas would become North Mexico. (El Norte De Tejas) Then Oklahoma would start (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)ing about how they need to build a border wall.