awaken
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Given the anniversary today and talk around here of CA and TX independence on other threads, I ask The Pit to discuss.
they have the right to, but I see no conceivable way that they'd be able to have enough tax base and have the funds to be able to 1) import things from the US 2) provide basic services for their citizens.
TX has about 55% of the GDP of CA
List of U.S. states by GDP in 2010[1] States GDP
($Millions) rank percentage of
national GDP
USA 14,657,800 100
California 1,936,400 1 13.34
Texas 1,153,100 2 7.95
New York 1,114,000 3 7.68
Only if the other states agree to let them leave. Otherwise they are breaking a contract. Lincoln was right on this.
Kind of interesting how a question about the right of states to secede has taken off in the direction of vague speculations about whether or not any state could economically afford to secede.