I have been arguing with libs online who say Texas and other states would not survive without their taxes. The idiots are not aware that businesses have been and continue to leave blue states in droves. Even Silicon Valley companies are head to Texas and free states. The red states have most of the industry (Alabama is booming with new companies) and we have most of the livestock and the food belt. Commiefornia and NY are both overextended and broke and were begging the fed for more. I would be happy to join Allen West in forming an actual functional government ran by and for the people. I also get tired of all the nay sayers. “Oh it can not be done. Its too hard. They won’t let us.”. If you are a conservative and are that afraid of a challenge that may be the last chance of remaining free then you need to give up and go full commie. What if the founding fathers took that attitude? We would still be paying big time taxes for tea.
I always get a little suspicious about GDP claims if for no reason other than that multi-location businesses can fairly easily make non-falsifiable claims about which location profits are generated. I will post a simple and older question: The PRR (headquarters in Philadelphia PA) moves a unit train of coal from a mine in WV to a mill in OH, which of the three states was the economic activity credited to in GDP calculations?