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videojob, if you separate, you will be buying your water, your electric, your natural gas and food from upstate. I strongly suggest you do it. People cannot live without those "necessities" and it would improve our economy upstate -- as we wouldn't have to give them to you at discount prices negotiated thru Albany ( like power from Niagara Falls, when I live 20 miles from it and get mine from a dam in PA!!).
Maybe food isn't in the "state backroom deals" but the other are. I'd like to see the dairy industry hold NYC hostage again -- they did it about 1960/61. [NYC/LI wanted to pay less. There was a milk strike. We could get 1 quart every 2 days until it was over ( about 6 weeks)..... I suggest you try to remember that when chomping on the yogurt ( esp. the Greek yogurt) being made upstate with all NY State milk]
My understanding is that NYC about breaks even for its tax dollars, meaning it pays about as much in taxes as it receives from state programs. If you include Long Island and Westchester as a whole downstate area, metro NYC contributes quite a bit more than it receives.
This isn't different than many states with a single urban center and a rural rest.
So if your question is about retaining dollars, I would say it depends if you want to take NYC only or the suburbs too, and we're not even getting into the practicality of a secession (could it be approved, etc.)
I think Manhattan and Williamsburg, Brooklyn where the hipsters live should separate and be their own state.
It's not like Bloomberg cares about anything outside these two areas anyway.
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