As much as Secession talks stir folks up and the immediate response is "Yes".
When you think it through, it had many drawbacks. The disaster funds are just a piece of it.
There is the highway funds, police, fire and ems grants, education funds, agricultural grants, and a whole lot more.
While I think the Feds have about 3x more employees than they need, it would cost us thousands of jobs.
We would lose several military bases and federal prisons and the list can go on and on and on.
While Texas is one of the few states that could be self sufficient, folks would not like the tax rate we would be at to be that way.
I don't see many folks turning down DSNAP, though it is state managed, it is federally funded. 4951