Texas has a booming economy and feeds DC. If Texas did not have to fund DC’s insane foreign policy, globalism, and utterly out of control welfare state and follow DC’s regulatory regime, Texas could easily be self sustaining.
Wanna buy some oil? Some gas? Some Cotton? Some high tech?
Wanna launch rockets into space? Elon would LOVE ending his relationship with the FAA and NTSB.
Cash on the barrelhead.
I’d check into the number of SS recipients in Texas and it the State is going to make them whole...
DC is running on massive deficits only way for Texas to keep up with the promises made by the US after succession would be running massive deficits or cutting benefits...