From President Trump’s hero, Andrew Jackson:” The Nullification crisis was but the pretect, and a Southern Confederacy l, the object, THE NEXT PRETEXT WILL BE THE SLAVERY AGITATION.” Jackson would have crushed the Rebellion in it’s cradel.
We pay taxes now to create the illusion that a government printing and spending twice as much money as it takes in, has some credibility and ability to pay it's bills.
In all honesty, our government runs on illusion and printing presses.