If the Feds are threatening to withhold money from the states - money the states sent to the Feds in the first place, what would happen if all the states said "Fine. We'll just stop sending any more to you"
Don't the Feds get 'their' money from all the states to begin with? Certainly the Fed is a pure consumer, consuming the increase of the states, and producing no product whatsoever (unless corruption and greed are 'products')
So seriously, what would happen if all the states (and it would likely require all states or it might not have effect) completely cut them off and kept their own money for their own use?
Not likely to happen even if it could - I'm sure not holding my breath for it...
A nationwide tax revolt - I like that!
But most Federal taxes are on individual & corporate income, so how would the uprising be organized?
State refusal to accept Federal funds would pose a greater conundrum for the central government, I would think.