[Paine in the Neck]

Contructive secession is more or less what the Massachusetts colonists did before the shooting started. They had set up parallel functions to gov't and simply ignored Crown agencies as much as possible. Ray Raphael's The First American Revolution describes this.

It would be much harder to do now because of direct withholding. The feds now get their hands on your money before you do so they can extort you, your community, your state into doing what they want - unless you are willing to walk away from the federal 'benefits'.

[Goreknowshowtocheat]

Good point. The States have to get control of the taxes paid to the Feds. Otherwise, this is a fool’s errand.