Tim Draper ,of California, feels that California is too big to govern efficiently and should be divided into 6 different California's. The secretary of California gave them the okay to activists to start a petition to split California. There has been about 220 tries to split california but all has failed. In order for it to be possible Tim will need over 800,000 signatures of people to sign the petition and then congress must agree to it as well. He has until July 18th of This year to get all the signatures. Their are a lot of people complaining about it because it would cost a lot of money and they would have to have more capitols and more highway patrols. Some people are saying that its just making a way for people to send tax revenue from wealthy areas back to the same neighborhoods.
I don't think that it makes any sense for them to make California into 6 different states. I think they should leave it just the way it is and avoid all the expenses. Do you think they should divide California into different states or just leave it the way it is?
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/02/21/activists-push-to-split-california-into-six-states/#
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California is a pretty big state but it doesn't make much sense to divide it. America is known for having 50 states and you can't change that.
I think its dumb because I don't think we need more than 50 states. Plus it'll always be remembered as California.
I think they should leave California how it is. And I don't think he will be able to get 800,000 signatures for that anyways
I don't think they should do this. It doesn't make any sense. This seems really confusing too.
I think they should keep it as one state! It will cause a lot of problems and then we would have to change the American flag.
This will never happen Draper should get out of fantasyland.
I do not think this should happen. It is a dumb idea and would changes tons of things. I dont understand why they want to do this.
He doesn't realize all the changes that would have to be done. We would need a new flag, they would need to make new capitals and there would be more state patrols. Plus the people who would live in these "new" states would have to change everything that has their address on.
I think that this is kind of dumb because california is one of the more visited states in the county and if you split the country into pieces i think it would hurt their tourism rate.