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by Fnoord
3449 days ago
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> CA would be the 7th largest economy in the world if it were its own country. NY would be 11th. But yes, let's just pretend like they don't matter when it comes to the US as a whole. Except we're not pretending like they don't matter. We're pretending they have a proportionate say. Regardless of wether your hypothetical proportion would be sound or not the proportion just isn't based on the size of the economy of a state. Businesses work that way though. You're free to petition for a CAexit or NYexit if you desire. Not that that'd happen either... |
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Well... they don't have a proportionate say, if by "proportionate" you mean "in proportion to their population". They have less say then that.
But they also don't have a proportionate say if you mean "in proportion to their only being one state out of fifty". They have more say than that.
All of which is by design. Whining about it now is just sour grapes. Now, if people had been complaining about it since they first learned about it in junior high civics class, then I'd be more inclined to grant them that they have a principled position...