Make it so – Liberals’ California dream of secession will end up a nightmare

First and foremost, the state would need to be divided into the 24 counties that voted for Donald Trump. Also, an additional five counties only supported Clinton with a plurality of a vote — they’d probably like to stay in the U.S. as well.

The independent nation of California also runs into the problem that it’s dependent on other states for water. Los Angeles gets its water from the Colorado River; the biggest reservoirs are located in Arizona and Nevada.

Rain and bottled water are not enough to keep SoCal going. An independent California means importing water from a foreign country and tax on the source.

Given the state’s tendency to have massive wildfires and earthquakes, a natural disaster would also impose an even greater strain on the new country.

After the problem with natural resources, you’ll also face an economic difficulty. The middle class is shrinking, and the California Department of Finance reported on November 16th that there’s a tax shortfall of a billion dollars this year.

Liberals love to whine about income inequality, but California is a cesspool of problems. It’s not just expensive cities like San Francisco either where conditions have worsened.

According to an August 2016 study by the Public Policy Institute of California, income inequality has skyrocketed in the Inland Empire, Sacramento, and the Central Valley.

California’s social welfare, economic, and amnesty policy traded in middle-income taxpayers for low-skilled agricultural workers. A nation of California would have an unstable tax structure: wealthy tech billionaires, millionaires from the entertainment world, a small middle class, and millions of people who pick their fruit and clean their houses.

It should go without saying that the progressive plan for open borders, higher taxes, and a generous welfare system will only be exacerbated going into the future.

Faster please…