[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Let’s look at just one problem, of the many not mentioned, the welfare rolls. One-third of the people on welfare in the US live in California.

If California was a stand-alone country without an inflow is US tax dollars, picking up that expense alone would sink their economy.

Not enough? Where does California get its electricity? Cut off or put a tariff on electricity from other states, and where are they? I ask, because they are going to be hard to spot in the dark.

[central_va]

If California was a stand-alone country without an inflow is US tax dollars, picking up that expense alone would sink their economy.

Your logic is faulty. The federal taxes and payroll taxes that Californians used to be paid to DC would now funnel to Sacramento. Not much change for the Californian taxpayer.

[Mariner]

“If California was a stand-alone country without an inflow is US tax dollars, picking up that expense alone would sink their economy.”

So, you just invent stuff for fun?

CA pay 20% more in Federal taxes than it receives in Federal expenditures. And has for over 50 years. Every year.

As for power, CA is a net exporter.