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Crummy article, but the real issue is that California is getting increasingly fed up with a huge chunk of the US which is simultaneously A) happy to take California's revenue and B) beat California up about it.

If you're going to ask to borrow money from your neighbor, you should at least be polite to him.

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What? How is California's federal tax revenue relevant to the article? If California secedes these people will still argue that you shouldn't have a vote and the state should transition to monarchy.

These people are getting traction because of all of the grief coming from the rest of the country.

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