Now, states will not want to secede from the union politically nor militarily. But they will withhold monetary transfers to the fed, they will make broader use of discretionary laws and taxation powers, they will start non-cooperation on many legal matters and will take advantage of the federal government’s position of weakness to impose their state will etc.

This will create a disunity in policy, fiscal matters, legal matters that may or may not lead to more severe secession movements.

At any point, the federal government will be like a sheet ripped apart by being pulled from both sides, by prosperous states that want to keep their wealth and poor states that want to take the other state’s wealth. The federal government will lose prestige and respect and some states will start to solve litigations directly between themselves. You know you’ve lost legitimacy and standing when people start solving their own problems among themselves instead of reporting to you in case of trouble. That’s exactly what will happen in the USA.
Strong states will start to solve their problems themselves, circumventing FEMA and other federal redtape and will start to make interstate arrangements without federal consultation.

I don’t think the USA will break appart like Igor Panarin says, but I think that the federal government will lose a lot of power and that the USA will become more of a confederation than a federation.

In the end, the USA will ressemble the European Union where several interests will compete against each other under one banner instead of being into true unity.

States might actually start to mint their own state currency, state bonds, state vouchers, state coupons etc. And incorporate those as payments for employee benefits. At this point, the federal government will be powerless to stop this trend.

The best way to provide an alternative currency, the most innovative currency would be to do without the us dollar, to do without a currency in the first place and just barter and develop a complex bartering points system redeemable in objects held by one another.

That way, when it’s time to pay your taxes, you could send 32,000 chairs to the government or 900 sofas or 90 stoves, LOL !!!!

Bartering is absolutely not illegal because there is no monetary instrument in between. It’s a service for a service or a good for a good etc. The government cannot crackdown on this because there is no currency. You can ask someone to provide the service of keeping tab and accounting for the points etc.

So many people could join a resources pool and exchange points for goods and services.

An iphone application could keep tabs among members. The government would be incapable of cracking down on that.

Yet, I’m sure that if somebody were to sell a pound of pope shit on ebay and it was certified to be genuine pope shit by a Vatican appraiser, that it could sell for $40,000 LOL !!!
And if the face of the virgin Mary appears in the crevasses of the turd, like it did for someone’s grilled cheese, it could be worth as high as $80,000 !!!!

It would be canonized as genuine holy shit.

When millions of fans are ready to buy a turd at the price of gold, this goes on to show that value is SUBJECTIVE.

In other words, the USA has effectively become a Hotel California nation: You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

So do not fall to that illusion.

Americans could defeat the Fed and the statists by moving their money out of the fractional reserve banks into safe bullion banks. This is perfectly legal and no one can be prosecuted for counterfeiting. As the Fed prints more dollars, Americans will convert dollars into silver and gold. They will learn that the dollar is a piece of paper and not money.