Enormous Maine County Wants to Secede Because Conservative Locals Hate Dem-Controlled State House

A massive county in Maine is planning to secede from the state because locals are fed up with how Democrats are controlling the state house.

Unhappy residents in Aroostook – a county bigger than Rhode Island and Connecticut combined – have had enough of the state’s liberal ways and have decided to branch off and create their own faction called ‘North Maine.’

The group, called State of North Maine-Official Movement, launched a Facebook page in early April with a declaration to form the ‘Free and Sovereign State of North Maine.’

The page has amassed 3,2000 followers and promises residents that there will be no income or property tax, and that the state will be locally controlled.

The group, which currently has a ‘constitution in progress,’ said they have chosen to break free from the liberal state because it has ‘failed to adequately represent the interests of the people of this country’ through ‘excessive taxation and bureaucratic interference.’

Mainers currently face a 10.6 percent ‘total tax burden,’ including income, sales and property tax, according to Visual Capitalist.

‘In North Maine, there shall be no income tax and no property tax, ensuring that the fruit of labor remain with the individual,’ the organization wrote.

‘The principles of sovereignty, personal liberties, and limited government shall guide our new state.’

Some people don’t believe the county could break away from the state while others are quite sure how it would happen.

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It is unclear who exactly started this initiative, but they made it clear that the mission ‘is not a political stunt.’

‘This is not a political stunt. It’s a grassroots response to decades of cultural, economic, and political disconnect between our region and Augusta,’ the group insisted.

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