Texas Secession

          State autonomy is an interesting issue when issues such as military, budget and resources. Many believe that states should exist as an independent entity, because the national government weighs down the states with otherwise unnecessary taxes and laws. Now there is something to be said for the national government, but in reality, are we not paying taxes for two governments (national and state) when one could do the same job?

           The biggest issue when it comes to state autonomy is when it gets to the military. States have no military forces, and would have to build them from scratch. And when there are Texans in the US military, do they stay with the US? Or do they join the Texas military?

          Another large issue is currency. If Texas were to secede from the Union, the US would probably not want Texas to keep using their currency. Therefore, the new Texas currency would have no comparison to other currencies, and would then have no value.

        It also becomes a problem when you have Texans that are in different parts of the United States, how do you decide who could become a citizen of Texas? And then what do you do about immigration from the US. And do you tax products coming from the US?

Without thinking much, secession seems like a great idea. But when you really look at the issues, and everything that the national government does, that the state would then have to take over, there is no way that a state could secede from the Union and become a stable nation. Anyways, did Texas not already try being their own nation? That did not last too long did it?