Financial statistics are manageable to any body's interests. Thus the fundamental and basic principles might lose its focus in the debate. The USA is the most developed country of the world. A free individual will use its creative and productive efforts to the maximum.
Every individual is different and at the same time equal under the Constitution and laws.
The USA is composed of citizens from the entire world. Immigration has made the USA larger and stronger, unlike Argentina, which was a stronger economic and military power until 1903, but its isolationism and social instability made it poorer. Commonwealth is an expense while Statehood is an investment. Neither for the Declaration of Independence nor the Civil War the immediate economic effects were considered as determinative factors, because this is primarily a matter about civil and political rights.