My God California has the 9th largest GDP in the world. They’ll be fine.
My question was rhetorical, they couldn’t survive without federal dollars. See how loudly they squealed when the Fed threatened to hold back money from “sanctuary cities”. And with the insane policies California wants to enact their economy couldn’t possibly support itself.
For a while. Socialism works until they run out of other peopel’s money. Socialism punishes the people who work for a living and rewards those who vote for a living.