Should Texas try to secede they immediately would have to pay the United States their share of the National Debt .Texas with 10% of the country's population would be required to immediately pay Washington DC 10% of the $27 trillion national debt or $2.7 trillion.

$27,000,000,000,000 x 10% = $2,700,000,000,000

YOU CAN TAKE IT TO THE BANK THAT IT AIN'T GOING TO HAPPEN.