Only if they are not successful at passing the costs on to the rest of us, with Federal bailouts of their insane pension systems (and anything else they can come up with).
That is the plan. Run your economies into the ground. Don't worry. Make sure the Federal government picks up the tab.
After all, the big national companies that happen to be in their state, pays a lot of federal taxes.
And all the workers in their state pay Social Security and Medicare taxes to the Federal government.
So, of course, when those companies and individual flee the failed states, the failed states will demand all the federal taxes those individuals and companies paid, go to them to bail them out!
We have to have the courage to allow them to fail.
Man, I hope you’re wrong. So far, Trump’s been really good on taking a Federalist view of things. I hope he’s smart enough not to get mired in the local mud.