Either it's loss of revenue taken from people in other states or loss of revenue that was originally taken from Texans and returned to them as a fraction of the original amount. Loss of jobs that produce no wealth. You still aren't coming up with any downsides.

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“Some writers have so confounded society with government as to leave little or no distinction between them ... [Yet s]ociety is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.” - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

"Bleeding head good. Healed head bad."

Well, actually you guys are still in a hole, so you would not be ahead of anybody.

No, I've done the numbers. We pay the Federal Government $1 in personal income taxes. Our state gets about .80 of that back. That total figure, is a larger amount of money than we are behind. .05 is how much the illegal immigrant price tag is, medical, services etc.

Califronia would turn around thier deficit in one year of becomming independant. After that...out trillion dollar economy and defense contractors, and high tech base could construct robot armies...kidding

Seriously If you'd like I can look all that up again but I assure you an Independant California is solvent.

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"Each one of the Founding Fathers was a Special Interest Group"... Goldwater

Excellent video Steve, well worth watching.

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Pushing back the frontiers of ignorance.

Who made that rule? There is a big difference between then and now. I believe that if the Federal government was dissolved, every state could manage themselves. It’s been the Federal government who has brought us down.

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If it was that easy, everyone would do it.

Yeah. Texas = Anti-American. I am always flabbergasted by their flag level with the American flag.

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"Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours, but theirs."
~St. John Chrysostom

To Republicans: "You're in the minority now. You see, it's supposed to taste like a **** taco."
~ John Stewart

Concerning Beck's Alamo Tea Party: ""I certainly hope that this occupation of the Alamo most certainly goes as well as the last one."
~ Steve Colbert

You'd have Mexico's drug cartels wanting to make Texas into just another 'narco-state. I'd love to see what the people of Texas would do to the scum balls who basically control Mexico now. 'Adios Amigos'

Texas wouldn't be affected all that much. We pretty much self-sustaining now. It is the U.S. as a whole that would determinately affected if we left.

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Democrats don't believe in Democracy unless they are running it.
-numerous

Hate to burst anyones bubble here but Calif is bankrupt. I would think that contributes a negative to the budget of the US

Texas being its own country would be a great idea, but I wouldn't want the seperatist nutters here in Quebec to get any ideas. I think that they've slithered back under the rocks they come from and the province and country are better off for it.

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