Reduced? Succession would mean that they don’t have any Federal government support at all correct? What would they do without Federal funding of I don’t know...everything. Their infrastructure, their schools, their welfare programs,their prison systems, and all the Mexicans they’ve taken in..lol. If they really did do this you’d see them deport illegals aka burdens so fast your head would spin. What will they do for their defense? The military will be gone because that’s a US Federal institution. Not sure they thought this through. These people don’t believe in rugged individualism or guns, or anything that would make you be able to be a successful sovereign state.
Let’s see if I can help you partner. On April 15th instead of the check going to the US Treasury, Californians will write a check to the Treasury of the Republic of California. Meet the new boss same as the old boss(just closer) in Sacramento. Secession doesn’t meant no more having to pay federal taxes. It is just a new address to send the check.