r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/myadsound California 1d ago

CA is always the one leading

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u/pomonamike California 1d ago

It’s kinda crazy that we are a second-level political division when by ourselves we would be one of the economically biggest nations on the planet.

It really doesn’t make practical sense when we have to bend the knee to certain senators that were voted in by fewer people than live in say… Riverside.

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u/O_its_that_guy_again 1d ago

For now sure. But California has done that at the expense of their natural resources, primarily looking at water.

They could make a ton of money in trade via this deal but eventually something’s got to give in terms of agricultural production/water usage.

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u/Nihilistic_Mystics California 1d ago

Just fixing our archaic water rights laws, allowing for agriculture to use unlimited water for nearly free, would solve California's water issues. Our population uses a tiny fraction of what agriculture does, while agriculture is not a big contributor to GDP. Just reducing the export of very high water demand feed crops like alfalfa (sent to Saudi Arabia to feed their livestock) would fix things in the short term. It's a very solvable problem if the will to do so exists.