Getting rid of that lunatic asylum parading as a state is worth any cost. The payback would be immediate and huge. I don’t want anything mucking up this deal. Congress would be “red” forever. The house would lose a net 13 Democrats.
That argument has potential, but before I simply accepted it, I would want to go through some numbers. If it is as you say, we can save more money by letting them go than making them pay, then that is what we should do.