[central_va]

A "free and independent republic of Texas" can just as easily suffer from rampant, runaway statism as a nation of fifty States and associated territories.

As long as people like you stay away. Texas will be just fine.

[muawiyah]

Texas has gotten more than its fair share of government loot the last half century ~ Johnson Space Center springs to mind.

Texas exists because the United States helps it stay different from Mexico to some extent.