[Vermont Lt]

Texas isn’t going anywhere.

That state has its head so far up the Federal Government’s arse that they would wither and die about three days after declaring “independence.”

It’s all about economics. And Texas would take decades to get back to this level of strength. Take out the military money, the NASA money, the subsidies for oil exploration....and there is some cattle stuff left.

Do you think the US Army and Air Force are simply going to walk away from El Paso and San Antonio?

I know this is all fantasy league civil war...but folks are not even thinking it through past the first steps.

[Zhang Fei]

[the subsidies for oil exploration]

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AFAIK, there are none. This is just the left’s redefinition of what a subsidy is. The so-called subsidies are just expense deductions for costs incurred while looking for oil, much as a restaurant owner gets to deduct the advertising costs that help him land new customers.