Is it better to have a smaller and homogenoeus contry, even if in the process of independence the new nation might lose wealth?
>>80650732
First and most importantly is geography.
Your new nation is ad good as dead if its In the middle of a fucking desert.
>>80651007
Like Israel?
Better for Average citizen? Probably
Better for the richest in the country? Probably not
>>80650732
Seems like a non-existent hypothetical. Bringing in inbred and braindead minorities from the middle east and Africa will inevitably lead to a downturn in the economic strength of a country.
>>80651327
>swamp
>>80651550
you: 8,019 mi2 of desert
us: 3,806,000 million mi2 of grassland + swamp and desert in south
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>>80651327
Israel has farmland. They even fool American protestants to go give free labor in their vineyards.
>>80651536
Lets say that Texas became a country, would it become poor or richer?
>>80652309
If they kept usd as currency probably. Texas loses more in gov taxes than it gets back. Unlike commifornia that gets somthing like 4 times as much tax money back from the feds
>>80652927
the same happens here at my state in Brazil, we give the fed gov 21B and get back only 9B
the problem with I see about secession would be retaliations of the former country
