The problem with TEXIT is the same with BREXIT and pretty much any libertarian policy in that it expects so many things to stay the same.
As soon as this happens, assuming the US take direct military action, all the US bases are gone. Same with all defense contractors. Technology companies are gone too, they do not want to go through the headache of working with the US a foreign company. That’s Texas Instruments and HP.
Taxes will skyrocket. They will lose all the US tax subsidies that allow them to have no state income tax and now they need to replace all military personnel and infrastructure.
They will probably not bottom out but they aren’t going to be a world power. They will pretty much be Spain in terms of economy.
You assume America would just casually let that happen. It’s one thing to leave a multinational body, that doesn’t cost you citizens and can be (incorrectly) argued that it would benefit The UK. There would be no benefit to America if they let Texas secede so they won’t allow it. So if America won’t allow it then Texas would have to secede by force
I guarantee you the moment a drone strike hits a Houston suburb a whole bunch of wealthy Republicans will realize playing revolutionary isn’t nearly as fun as it sounds. Shortly after most of the people in the state would gladly roll over to come back to America
Texas lost the right to secede in The Civil War.
Presumably somewhere in Texas, this time they’ll have nukes. They shouldn’t 🤞 have a way to use them, but it’s curious what would happen with them if a vote to secede was successful.
Why would that be the case? Nuclear missile silos are concentrated in the north central United States specifically to give them more time to fire before detection and landfall of incoming ICBMs.
The vulnerability of Texas to a submarine launch is too great to consider it a base for launch in a mutually-assured destruction scenario. It also doesn’t have any reactors capable of producing isotopes needed for nuclear weapons.
I won’t claim to know about ability to produce the components of a weapon or ability to actually use one, but it appears that the only facility in the US that has the capacity to assemble or disassemble nuclear weapons is in Texas.
I just thought that the prospect of Texas trying to secede is a bit more complicated and scary, and thought I would offer a take to balance the jokes.
If they seceded I’m sure the federal government would make the argument that they are on federal land, even if it’s within the Texas borders. Since it wasn’t state land, their secession wouldn’t apply so it would remain the USA. If Texas wanted to refuse the US Federal government access to them, they’d learn a swift lesson. Texas has a lot of guns, but the army has more.
Ugh, I’m in the category of “can’t afford to leave Texas but can’t survive if I stay.”
I’m staying in my sea of blue until I retire or they manage to do something idiotic like actually leave and start a fucking war with the all the military bases here.
I’m selfish, so I’m gonna need you to survive because you’re funny as shit and understand the dumb things I say on here.
I’m assuming you’re either in Austin or Houston. If you’re in Austin, meet me at my place and we’ll carpool to salvation. If you’re in Houston, I’ll meet you at yours. If we take any interstate other than 10, it’ll only be a lateral move.
H-Town, but I wouldn’t mind heading over to Austin. Salvation on 34th? I haven’t been in more than a decade and didn’t even know they were still open. I remember it was delicious, but I stopped having a reason to go to Austin when my brother moved to Corpus so he could surf more often.
Can you guys hurry it up? Is there a GoFundMe I can donate to?
This sounds great to the base and a few wealthy dudes, but this is a real bad thing for literally everyone including Republicans - if they somehow did leave, it’d turn the remaining US permanently blue, plus they would immediately be invaded for their oil…
