Texas GOP Moves Toward Vote On Seceding From Union... Can I give you a hand, TX?

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33. I agree it's humorous to suggest that we simply allow them to secede, but this talk

makes me concerned because there would some ugly consequences beyond economics!

I do not even want to imagine what would happen to any migrants or undocumented workers, any Muslims, any atheists, any uppity women, any outspoken liberal activists still in Texas who had not fled by the time this nightmare bill passed their legislation and Gov Abbott signed it.

I know the secession will NEVER happen.

But the idea of secession represents dim, simplistic reasoning by some very short-sighted people and we should encourage the idea of thinking this decision through for the average Texan. If we begin to list out the devastating consequences of this action - consequences to the nation and to the people of Texas and to those in and around the borders of Texas and Mexico -- it becomes clear that this would be a monumentally idiotic, catastrophic undertaking.

There would be staggering economic and societal upheaval and losses.

The US would reclaim all its resources and stop funding for federal programs - (military equipment, personnel, bases, coast guard, highway funding and upkeep, rail trains, govt internet routers, postal equipment, federal prisons, NASA, FBI, CIA, and more pressing - Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, federal student loan programs, satellite transmissions, etc.) the list goes on for days

No matter what conversion steps they took in advance, I think their economy would simply collapse on Day One.

Every American and international corporation headquartered there would flee at the speed of light to avoid currency devaluation and plummeting stocks (Ball Aerospace, large US and international banks, American and Southwest Airlines, restaurants, telecommunications, cable, trucking companies, etc)

Most Americans with resources would flee to an established nation where they have citizenship and rights (doctors, surgeons, lawyers, professionals, educators) causing an immediately skills-drain

The start up costs for Texas to establish and protect itself as an independent nation would exceed several TRILLION dollars and take several years (establishing and minting currency, establishing a stock exchange, funding a military, defending their borders, setting up state departments, negotiating treaties, establishing postal service) again the list goes on for days.

I wonder how money would flow? What family member or tourist would want to cross the border to get there and possibly get stuck?

The challenges become almost incomprehensible to list, much less to overcome.