Hmmm, I just thought of a big big problem with my long post.
The Dollar.
As long as we are all attached to the dollar, we in the red states would be like the more solvent European countries are to the insolvent southern Mediteranean ones. Tied to them and reaping the consequences of their decisions.
If we were to stop paying in income tax and the blue states like California keep spending like crazy, they would just keep printing and devaluing the dollar. And if the whole country is tied to the dollar - that is bad.
I don’t know the answer to that one....
Well I need to get busy but will be interested in seeing what other freepers think.
I think Utah and Arizona have made it legal to use gold for pmts. As long as you could figure out how to get paid that way...There was a story awhile back of someone paying employees in silver dollars; helped out with payroll taxes counting $1.00 instead of the real worth of the silver. Except the Feds caught up with him.