I’ve heard that one of the reasons why states don’t have an option to leave the US is that if they did, every time there was a policy that a particular state really did not like, they could just threaten to leave. A lot of the time they wouldn’t legitimately gain from leaving or actually want to leave, so this would arguably be a kind of blackmail. It would greatly complicate the legislative process and allow policy decisions to become even more distorted than politics.
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I’ve heard that one of the reasons why states don’t have an option to leave the US is that if they did, every time there was a policy that a particular state really did not like, they could just threaten to leave. A lot of the time they wouldn’t legitimately gain from leaving or actually want to leave, so this would arguably be a kind of blackmail. It would greatly complicate the legislative process and allow policy decisions to become even more distorted than politics.