Is Montana Worth Selling to Canada for $1 Trillion? Thousands of People Think So – By Scott McDonald (Newsweek) / Feb 20 2019
The United States passed the $22 trillion mark in national debt last week, and one person thinks they have a clever idea to shave a sliver of that debt. The concept is simple — sell the state of Montana to the nation of Canada for a cool trillion dollars. Sales from snow in the Rocky Mountains is not included.
The petition on change.org says the U.S. debt is too exorbitant and that the great state of Montana is, well, useless. Many of the people from Montana who signed the petition and wrote comments agree with moving to Canada, but they don’t bode themselves “useless.”
The petition says to let Montanans know their neighbors in the Great White North — or what ould be Southern Canada — have pretty much the same wildlife.
“We have too much debt and Montana is useless,” verbiage on the petition reads. “Just tell them it has beavers or something.”
The petition had more than 10,000 signatures by Tuesday evening, which is more than its initial goal, which has now been lifted to 15,000.
Canada would gain the fourth-largest state in America, but only the third in least-dense population with a little more than 1 million residents — that’s about $1 million per resident, plus all that lush land. It’s slightly larger than Japan, but smaller than Alaska, Texas and California.
The state known as Big Sky Country butts up against the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan. They might start thinking about an NHL expansion franchise in Helena.
The ranch and farming economy would fit right in with Canada.
One might think it would be folks from outside Montana who signed the petition for the gigantic state on the Canadian border to be traded off for some debt. But surprisingly, more Montanans welcomed the sentiment.
One signee from Missoula wrote: “Honestly most Montanans are totally ok with this let’s do it I’m fine with being out of this hellhole.”
Someone who claims to be from Montana, but now living in Colorado, wrote: “I’m Montanan and hoping to join Canada without the moving costs. Let’s do this. Please adopt us.”
Other comments include:
- “I want to live in Montana but not become an American!”
- “It is a beautiful place. I would like to make it part of British Columbia. Call it BC South.”
- “It’s time for a change and the US could use 1 trillion.”
- “Let’s include the entire west coast: California, Oregon and Washington state and up the amount to $4 trillion.”
- “This Montanan’s for it too! Free healthcare and a leader who’s not a “tool.””
- “Montana is useless.”
These are just mere comments from users on an online petition site. You can read more here: https://www.change.org/p/christian-moms-against-private-education-sell-montana-to-canada-for-1-trillion-to-eliminate-the-national-debt/c?source_location=petition_show.
https://www.newsweek.com/montana-worth-selling-canada-1-trillion-thousands-people-think-so-1336512
