Seven counties voted in favor of secession, and in six of those counties, more than 70% of voters were in favor of the measure.
  • @finitebanjo
    58•1 month ago

    Maybe Illinois should give them what they want and stop any and all state or federal funding of the region until they beg to be let back in. I’m feeling a little vindictive today.

    Keep taxing them, too, since they haven’t paid for the land.

    • pwnicholson
      10•1 month ago

      Federal funding wouldn’t stop. But shared state tax revenue from Chicago would

      • @finitebanjo
        16•1 month ago

        The federal funding is provided to the state of Illinois, so the counties need the state treasury to provide federal funding to them.

        • pwnicholson
          9•1 month ago

          If they were granted secession by the federal Congress they would be a state and get federal funding. That’s the only way they’d leave.

          • @finitebanjo
            3•1 month ago

            Yes but that circumstance could happen regardless of actions taken by the state of Illinois so it doesn’t have any impact on the plans I laid out.