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/ciel_lanila I voted 1d ago edited 1d ago

Just looked the raw GDP numbers in case anyone is curious. .

  • US with CA: $30.338 trillion
  • European Union (as a whole): $20.29 trillion
  • China: $19.535 trillion
  • Germany: $4.922 t
  • Japan: $4.390 t
  • India: $4.270 t
  • California: $4.1 t
  • UK: $3.731 t
  • Skipping a few
  • Russia: $2.197 t

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u/SweetAlyssumm 1d ago

We also have a bunch of military bases. We could almost actually do this.

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u/diamondpredator 1d ago

If there is any state in the union that would be successful after seceding it would be CA. TX MAY be able to pull it off, but they're a lot more dependent on federal funds than CA is and they don't have the same amount of production we do.

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u/ChiliTacos 23h ago

The issue there is that it assumes nothing changes. What stops the 5 largest companies from moving for example?

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u/diamondpredator 16h ago

The same things that incentivized them to be there in the first place.