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Fine all secessionists $200k annually and solve America's debt problem in ten years.

Created by S.F. on November 14, 2012

Individual petitioners and signers who wish for their state to secede from the United States of America shall be fined $200,000 per year for a period of ten years.

It is assumed that all "secessionists" have no credit card debt, have cars, boats, RVs and houses paid off, do not drink smoke or use illegal drugs, and earn at least $250k per year. The remaining modest income of $50k will, by grace, not be subject to normal income tax. These folks will still enjoy double the wages of their middle class neighbors.

Assuming a very realistic 20% fund growth (private equity stock in mostly agriculture and fossil fuel mining industries) and fund investment of $200k per secessionist (presently 650,000 in total), the net fund will amount to $14,747,772,047,360 in ten years, compounded annually

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