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California wouldn’t last 5 years on its own.

But a country like Israel can? You are making no sense.

Only Illinois has more debt/income than California among the states. Without Federal tax dollars California will go bankrupt.

Hope its not too hard to make sense of that.

[central_va]

If debt is a disqualification to lose the right to be a country then all of Europe would be stateless.