Texit Quotes

“On average, Texans pay $265 billion per year in taxes to the federal government. Federal government expenditures in Texas, at best, account for only $162 billion. This is a substantial overpayment of $103 billion annually. The math is clear. Texans pay more into the federal system than we get out of it.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“The winds of secession are blowing... Over the past 50 years, the U.S. government has grown too big, too corrupt and too aggressive toward the world, toward its own citizens and toward local democratic institutions. It has abandoned the democratic vision of its founders and eroded Americans’ fundamental freedoms…” The Federal Superstate In the midst of the fight over the Affordable Care Act, known colloquially as Obamacare, Judge Andrew Napolitano interviewed South Carolina Congressman Jim Clyburn, the number three ranking Democrat in Congress, on the Fox News Channel.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“In the end, the Tea Parties were betrayed because they placed their faith in a system that could not and would not be able to deliver the reforms they sincerely wanted to see. It was like sending divers to the bottom of the North Atlantic to plug the holes in the hull of the Titanic and then wondering why the ship was still inundated.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“The federal government has made its position clear. It values non-citizens who came here illegally more than it values citizens that it claims as its own.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“In the face of federal inaction, Texas has tried to address these challenges through the federal system and on its own. Unilateral attempts to limit access to public services for illegal immigrants have been shot down by federal courts with stern reminders that, in the opinion of the federal government, matters related to immigration and border are under their sole authority. Texas regularly requests reimbursement from the federal government for State-initiated expenses to secure the border. To date, all requests have been denied.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“Texans have made it abundantly clear that they want a border with Mexico that is secure and an immigration policy that is structured, rational, and fair to those who are already citizens, as well as those who wish to become citizens. While the federal government claims that both these issues fall squarely in the scope of its authority, it has delivered none of what Texans want or need.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“Today the amount of money owed by the federal government is 108 percent of the entire production value of the United States and climbing. Patton’s article on the debt contained a blunt warning that has been echoed by other economists and government watchdogs for many years now. “You can be sure of this: You cannot circumvent the laws of economics. If we continue to accumulate debt, if we ignore the warning signs, if our officials maintain the status quo, there will be consequences. I only hope America realizes it before it’s too late.” That”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“Author and Texas-based entrepreneur David Thomas Roberts expressed the sentiments of the vast majority of Texans when he wrote: “Our income and our labors are taxed and redistributed to those who won’t work, to inefficient and corrupt governmental agencies, to programs that might violate our faith and to morally despicable foreign governments―of which many hate us despite the money we give them.” “This marriage has run its course,” agrees author Paul Vandevelder in a 2012 op-ed for the Los Angeles Times. “Too many niggling little things built up over time, driving us all crazy. So let’s just stop. It’s time to divvy up the china and draft a property settlement.” The”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“The fact is that there is no “American people.” There are people who live on the North American continent, but that also includes Canadians and Mexicans. There are people who live within the political union called the United States of America. Perhaps those are the Americans. But to say that America is one nation, a single, homogenous and well-defined people, is a massive stretch. If we are “one people,” then it seems unusual that we would all readily identify ourselves as something other than simply American. While “American” is a handy term, much like “European” or “Asian,” it ignores the fact that those who most would call “American” more regularly identify themselves and others as something other than “American.” People in Texas clearly identify themselves as Texans. People in South Louisiana are quick to identify themselves as Cajuns. People across the southern States clearly identify themselves as Southerners, just as folks in the Midwest identify themselves as Midwesterners. Californians are some of the quickest to let a person know that they identify with their home State.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“the post-war Texas Constitution shatters this idea in its very first lines. Article 1, Section 1 of the Texas Constitution of 1876 declares: “Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the States.” Texas is a free, independent, and sovereign State in a political and economic union with 49 other free, independent, and sovereign States. Collectively, these States work together to common ends and to solve common challenges. They operate under a framework that is codified in the Constitution of the United States. This framework created a federal government whose job it is to administer the Union in very specific ways. Anything beyond that, the States are, in every respect, like any other sovereign nation-state anywhere else in the world. We are not, nor were we ever intended to be, one nation.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“A national government is a government of the people of a single state or nation, united as a community by what is termed the ‘social compact,’ and possessing complete and perfect supremacy over persons and things, so far as they can be made the lawful objects of civil government. A federal government is distinguished from a national government by its being the government of a community of independent and sovereign states, united by compact.” If”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“Talk of secession is an attack on our country. It can be nothing else. It is the ultimate anti-American statement.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“One of the biggest factors in the growth of independence movements in the 21st century has been the spread of globalism. Globalism seeks total economic integration across the planet. It is, at its core, Soviet-style central economic planning on an unprecedented scale. The effects of globalism have created poverty, unrest, and destruction around the world as the global elite seek to remake the world in their image.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“Prior to the 1980s, the idea of Texit was almost nonexistent in fiction. That changed with the 1979 novel The Power Exchange by Alan R. Erwin that posits Texas leaving the Union in the wake of the federal energy crisis. The Ayes of Texas, a 1982 novel by Daniel Da Cruz, has Texas leaving the Union, spurred by an unholy treaty arrangement between the United States and the Soviet Union where the federal government cedes the entirety of its manufacturing base to the Soviets. The 2000s witnessed an explosion of Texit fiction, not only in print, but in all media.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“Texans remember those who perished at Goliad as a warning that the price of surrender is often higher than the sacrifice of honor.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“By the late 1840s, the State of Texas and the rest of the United States had come perilously close to military action against one another over the far western sections of Texas. To prevent Texas declaring independence twice in 20 years, an agreement was struck to pay Texas for ceding portions of its western and northwestern lands.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“The Mexican army offered surrender to the Alamo defenders, and 27-year-old commander of the Alamo William Barret Travis’ response was a single defiant cannon shot. After 12 long days of siege by the numerically superior Mexican forces, legend says that Travis offered escape to those defenders who did not want to stay with him and face certain death, calling the question on his offer with a literal line in the sand drawn with his sword. Mere hours later, all the defenders lay dead on the grounds of the mission, never knowing that, four days earlier, a convention of delegates from all over Texas had drawn up and signed a Declaration of Independence from Mexico, formally establishing the Republic of Texas. At”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“While surveys and polling data inject a certain authority into identifying the real face of Texit, what Texans understand on the matter comes from their individual experiences. Texit supporters are as diverse as Texas. Everyone in Texas personally knows a Texit supporter. Every Texan lives in a neighborhood with other Texit supporters. Every Texan either works with or employs one or more Texit supporters. That person who just served your food at a restaurant is just as likely to be a Texit supporter as is the person who owns the restaurant. The person sitting beside you in traffic, the parents of your child’s classmates, or even your children themselves are equally likely to be Texit supporters. The face of Texit could be sitting right next to you.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“A February 2014 University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll asked respondents whether they considered themselves Texans first and Americans second, or Americans first and Texans second. The results point in an interesting direction, where the largest ethnic group identifying as Texans first was not Anglos, “but are instead the growing population of Hispanics, among whom 33 percent identify as Texan first.”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“In 2016, the Republican Party of Texas held its state convention. In an effort spearheaded by the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), a proposal that would have added a plank to the official platform calling for an up-or-down vote on Texas leaving the Union was considered. The proposal passed the Temporary Platform Committee by a two-thirds majority, throwing Party Chairman Tom Mechler and the staff of Governor Greg Abbott into an absolute panic. Defying all precedent, Mechler and the governor’s agents lobbied to replace members of the Temporary Platform Committee with members who were opposed to the plank before the committee became the Permanent Platform Committee. The unprecedented nature of the response from the political establishment cannot be overstated. One convention delegate, a longtime Republican activist said, “I’ve been coming to conventions for 30 years and I have never seen this.” In”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union

“I fully intend for this book to generate controversy. It is in the best interest of Texans and, frankly, all States of the United States if it does. Controversy and criticism create debate and discussion and, in turn, generate more questions. At this point in our history, everyone should be asking more questions, especially about how we are governed. While this book focuses on Texas, discussions about self-government and self-determination are not, and should not, be limited to Texans. The issues raised should be discussed across every kitchen table and every political campaign across the United States. People everywhere have a fundamental right to ask whether they are being served by their current form of government and a basic duty to act if they are not. This”
― Daniel Miller, Texit: Why and How Texas Will Leave The Union