00:00 Speaker A
So, let’s talk about the actual economic impact. Let’s just say that 1% of LGBTQ Americans decided to leave. And this is kind of what uh economists might say is an entry-level economic drain or impact. If 1% of LGBTQ adults in the United States, or roughly 200,000 individuals, decided to leave the country, the immediate spending loss would be based on that $1.4 trillion, roughly 14 billion a year.
00:46 John
A year.
00:46 Speaker A
A year. We are talking about those kinds of numbers when it comes to tariffs and uh other economic impacts that are going on in the country right now due to policy. It also would mean that based on taxes and GDP, that that loss would balloon to somewhere around 40 to 50 billion a year.
01:17 Speaker A
equivalent to the GDP of some of the smaller states in the country.
01:21 John
Yeah,…
