California is a welfare state. In Spain if you don’t work you had better have relatives or some charity to help you because you’ll starve before you get a penny from the government. That’s why most migrants who land on the coast from Africa head straight for the border.
Last time I checked, California was one of the top 10 economies in the world by itself and paid more money to the Federales than it got back.
I don’t know if there is a problem with the way these things are measured or not.
But I still would not be sad to see it go. We would get rid of two Democratic Senators, and its 53 representatives would reallocated among other states, some, perhaps, to new conservative districts?