Here’s Why Some New York Towns Want to Secede to Pennsylvania

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The Daily Signal:

Kate Scanlon

March 07, 2015

 

Some residents of New York’s Southern Tier have proposed seceding to Pennsylvania. Residents of the area say they’re unable to capitalize on the gas-rich Marcellus Shale due to Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s fracking ban.

“The Southern Tier is desolate,” Conklin town supervisor Jim Finch told WBNG. “We have no jobs and no income. The richest resource we have is in the ground.”

 

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Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, said he was sympathetic to the concerns of the towns.

 

“Given its exorbitant taxes and burdensome regulatory environment, I can certainly understand why parts of New York would want to leave the state,” said von Spakovsky. Unlike states seceding from the union, said von Spakovsky, there is a constitutional procedure for towns to secede to a different state.

 

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