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Cost Conscious

With the apparent desire of some Texans to secede from the United States, one cost conscious eBayer has taken it upon themselves to place the state on the auction block and sell it off to the highest bidder as a way of defraying the cost of the bank bailout and possibly some portion of the national debt.

The minimum bid for Texas was set at $100,000. But it’s already been bid up to over $65 million.

Josh Marshall

Josh Marshall is editor and publisher of TalkingPointsMemo.com.

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