“Sometimes I dream there was something in the Constitution that when a state hit some threshold of fiscal & governing irresponsibility they would automatically revert back to territorial status.”
Under your dream, would your federal government still accept the income tax payments from the people of California?
That’s a good question!
A good use for that money would be for the FedGov come in and pay for the rest of the dream.
1. Dissolve the State Government reverts to a territorial form,
2. All state government departments dissolved and reconstituted on a case-by-case basis,
3. All official appointed by FedGov,
4. All contracts with current stategov terminated or renegotiated with the territorial government,
5. Local elections overseen by FedGov, use Reconstruction and the federal oversight of Southern elections as the model. (See how libs like it!)
That likely would be a good use of both federal & state tax payments!
But imagine the nightmare if libs did it! By comparison Ca is currently better off.