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I feel like we should be pulling funding anyhow.
“Oh. You want to secede? Well about this. We’ll do a transitional period. We won’t send you money, and you won’t send us taxes. Talk to you in about a decade. Hope a hurricane doesn’t hit, cuz that’d suck… also, your citizens won’t be paying into or benefit from Social Security… and also? We’re setting up a customs control point on your border, and your people need a visa.
“Also you get to deal with Mexico if they choose to take steps because you’re an asshole.”
And… they can begin making payments on their share of the federal debt.
I mean, just cutting federal safety nets off would be sufficient to cause their economic collapse. The burden imposed by that alone would fuck texans over inside of a year or two.
then you have the infrastructure spending- the Port of Houston, for example. needs a massive 75 million dollar upgrade to be competitive. Cut out the federal spending for customs and security and that clown show becomes even worse. Also, removing it as a port of entry into the US proper-like means that people are far more likely to go to other ports. all of which combines to increased spending and decreased economic revenue.
There's really no reason to need to impose debt payments. their collapse is inevitable and they wouldn't be able to pay it anyhow. Further... their healthcare and schools are crap so they'd loose a lot of skilled workers as people leave.
one point, though. Remember one of the causes of ww2 was the sanctions imposed after ww1. I doubt it would spark ww3, but, it would cause... resentment.