Saturday, 28 December 2024

State Democrat Lawmaker Floats Idea Of Seceding To Canada Following Trump’s Election

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A New York Democratic state lawmaker suggested the Empire State withhold federal taxes and secede to join Canada to counter the Trump administration.

State Sen. Liz Krueger, who represents a district in Manhattan, hinted at the idea if Trump decides to send less federal funding to New York.

Before Trump won November’s election, Krueger suggested Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont also join Canada.

“Instead of us all trying to illegally cross the border at night without them noticing, which is pretty hard because there’s a lot of us, that they should instead agree to let us be the southeast province, a new province of Canada,” Krueger said.

“New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, would combine and be a great new province as the southeast province of Canada,” she continued.

“Basically everybody in these states are progressive Democrats,” she added.

“We would fit in pretty well with the political philosophy of at least most of the Canadian elected officials,” she noted.

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From the Washington Examiner:

While New York becoming a Canadian province could be a fairytale ending for Krueger, the state withholding federal taxes is only slightly more likely. The state senator hinted at such an idea if Trump chooses to send less federal funding to New York, something he has suggested if some cities won’t work with federal immigration authorities.

Trump’s “border czar,” former ICE Director Tom Homan, has put Trump’s previous threat into more concrete terms, saying he will block federal funding for states that don’t cooperate.

“That’s going to happen. I guarantee you,” Homan said.

A complete block of federal funding would leave New York $85 billion in the hole. As Krueger suggested, they could make up those funds by sending less in the hundreds of billions of tax dollars it receives.

“We’re talking a lot of money,” Krueger said. “We’re talking money we couldn’t possibly replace unless we started sending the feds a lot less money.”

“As a proud American, I’ll treat you to a one-way ticket to Montreal on the climate-friendly Amtrak. Your elitist proposal to leave the US and become a Canadian province is an insult to my uncle, who died for our nation,” political strategist and former New York Post reporter Candice Giove said.

“It’ll be the best $122 spent,” she added.

“No Liz, we’re not all progressive and we don’t want to become part of Canada. Feel free to move to Saskatchewan. In the meantime, fix New York’s disastrous budget… $61b increase in state spending over the last 4 years,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) said.

Per Fox News:

Krueger also reportedly received “unofficial responses” from Canadians who characterized the idea as “sellable in Ottawa.”

However, in remarks to Fox News Digital later Friday, Krueger said her secession idea was a “joke, of course.”

“But what is actually deadly serious is the threat from Donald Trump to take away tens of billions of dollars in federal money from New York and other states that didn’t support him in the election,” Krueger said.

“And those Trump cuts will affect all New Yorkers, whether they voted for him or not. They could impact healthcare coverage for millions of people, thousands of manufacturing jobs, transportation infrastructure that millions of New Yorkers rely on – the list goes on. So, though obviously New York is not going to become part of Canada, we will need to think outside the box to try to protect New Yorkers from Trump’s vindictive and destructive policies.”

Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar”-designate and an upstate New York native himself, told “The Ingraham Angle” this week that people who say they will stand in the way of mass deportation proceedings will fail.

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