this is also a recurring theme in Florida, where pretty much the entire insurance market is being propped up artificially by state intervention. it doesn’t seem to be as bad in Texas yet, but we’re quickly coming up on a period in time where hard decisions are going to have to be made about what can be covered and what in effect has to be written off.
It’s clear the Texas Tribune has picked a side from inserting an adjective into “The Oct. 7 terrorist attack, and ensuing assault on Gaza …” I have very little remaining faith in U.S. media, corporate or otherwise. If you need a narrative with a clearly defined “good” and “bad” side, you probably aren’t going to get much out of a Gaza story in the first place.
Imagine! “Extended political discourse” on a university campus. Can’t have that!
has picked a side from inserting an adjective into “The Oct. 7 terrorist attack, and ensuing assault on Gaza …”
How is that “picking a side”? It’s possibly the mildest neutral way of writing about what happened, as opposed to something like “The Oct 7. freedom fighter operation, and ensuing pacification of Gaza”, or similar.
As soon as we declare independence, we're going to be wealthy.
Hey I'm pretty sure the UK could let you know a thing or two about aforementioned topic.
A separate currency
Oh yeah, just FYI, world market does oil trade in US dollars which you wouldn't have access to and would make selling that oil to US aligned countries really difficult. And the countries that aren't US aligned, they know that, so they'll be expecting deals for them or they won't buy your oil either.
I personally believe that our personal GDP will double in five to seven years.
That's going to be really difficult as you'll become more toxic than Chernobyl soil on the International market and Texas has no where near enough domestic trade to actually hit that 200% GDP in seven years.
But let's be frank here, an independent Texas would not go bankrupt. They have enough cash and product to stay afloat. But much like the US Civil War taught us all, that the Confederates found out super fast what happens when they get cut off from literally every market on the planet Earth. It makes it really difficult to keep that bottom line from going red and really forces governments to either make really difficult calls on how to govern their slowly decaying nation or start a war and try to convince the world that they should trade with them.
Texas would not crumble overnight but they would be hurting very badly economically. They would in fact be very poor. Very, very poor. If they think their oil is going to save them, go ask Venezuela how that's working for them.
Well according to the guy in this article, there will be no taxes. So it would go bankrupt pretty quickly. Unless the plan is to nationalize the oil companies? Seems antithetical to what they are going for and the USA seems to have a secret clause in the constitution that it must overthrow any government that does that.
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