“Defense needs could be financed through financial arrangements with the individual states.”
but
“Screw the feds, we don’t need them anymore.
Make up your mind.
“All of the other CRAP can rot on the vine.”
You do realize I Suppose, that everyone in your state might not feel the same way, that they may want the State/local government to step in where the Feds left off, and that State/local taxes will rise?
If we can make this TOTALLY a "states" issue, it will solve itself over time as those states who are wasteful will soon learn that business and taxpayers can choose to live elsewhere. It also provides protection from over reaching by the feds as they are now. There are legitimate needs for some federal presence in our lives as our founding fathers understood and made accommodations for but it should be MINIMAL.