Texas Nationalist Movement

The financial case for Texas independence

Can Texas Make It?

You're damn right.

The short answer, in Washington's own numbers, is yes. Texas already funds its own government, sends the federal government tens of billions more than it gets back, and is chained to a balance sheet its own auditors call unsustainable.

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8th
largest economy on Earth. Ahead of Canada, Russia, and Australia. More than 180 nations run a full government on less.
$68B
a year Texas sends Washington beyond what it gets back. The third-largest net contribution of any state.
$40T
in federal debt, crossing this October. Staying in means co-signing Washington’s new borrowing, and its interest, with no vote.
“Unsustainable”
the Treasury’s own word for the federal fiscal path. Every major agency has now pulled the U.S. top credit rating.
$0
the true floor of the “exit bill” Texas supposedly owes. No treaty sets it, and the range runs to zero.
Kept
Texans keep their Social Security, collected anywhere for life. Younger workers already pay in more than retirees draw out.
$100,000
in federal debt now rides on every young Texan just starting out, and it climbs higher every single day, run up in their name.
~$150B
drained straight out of Texans’ bank accounts by inflation in one bad year alone, taken with no vote and no way to opt out.

The balance sheet · every year

Texans already pay more than their government costs.

$295.3Bthe cost of federal and state government in Texas
$158Bleft over, every single year

Of the $453.5 billion Texans send Washington and Austin each year, running government at the federal and state level in Texas costs $295.3 billion, and $158 billion is left over. The report does not bank that $158 billion as a permanent surplus, since the payroll taxes inside it carry retirement checks that narrow the true margin, but the direction holds every year: Texas raises more than its own government costs. That is Texas already carrying the full load of an independent nation, its own defense, courts, and borders, on top of the state it runs. Your city, county, and schools sit outside both numbers. They run on local taxes and would not change either way.

Washington is running the last chapter of a Ponzi scheme, and its own auditors have put it in writing. The question was never whether Texas can afford to leave. It is how much longer Texas can afford to stay.
Daniel Miller, President, Texas Nationalist Movement
The objections, answeredEvery attack on the case, met one at a time. →Check our workThe method, and every government source. →

The full report, on the site

Can Texas afford its own government? →Is Texas big enough to be a country? →Taker, or net contributor? →The federal debt →Would Texans lose Social Security? →The hidden inflation tax →What independence is for →What it means for a young Texan →

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