D.C. should be a state?

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Dreddout: Oct 1, 2015; You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Bear Retrieval Unit posted:

It should be a wasteland really.

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Dreddout: Oct 1, 2015; You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Gringostar posted:

yes

PR/VI should also be a state

also guam and our other far pacific holdings should be one

the dakotas should be merged into one

52 states up in this bitch

I'd actually be cool with conglomerating the states into like 10 or 12 big states with roughly equal populations.

# ¿ Oct 13, 2017 19:12

Dreddout: Oct 1, 2015; You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

LGD posted:

I doubt other people would be though, since conglomeration means giving up substantial local control, which is a big issue even if the states are highly culturally similar. As just one quick example, Oregon and Washington have extremely different tax structures and rationalizing them would be a major sticking point, because you've got a powerful constituency for retaining one of the most regressively FYGM tax-structures in the nation vs. people who are used to not paying any sales tax whatsoever and vote it down every time it's proposed - and that's to say nothing of what the people in northern CA or Idaho/Montana would think of having policies set by populations living in Portland and Seattle.

Well yeah, I know it's not gonna happen, but it'd be nice if it did

# ¿ Oct 13, 2017 20:11

Dreddout: Oct 1, 2015; You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

DOCTOR ZIMBARDO posted:

DC should become an autonomous but privileged city-state trader republic like in CK2

Montana, on the other hand, should be a khanate

# ¿ Oct 14, 2017 21:41

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