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In reply to the discussion: Seven states qualify for secession response from White House [View all]Jennicut
(25,415 posts)This article puts it very well:
"The federal government would obviously stop sending money to the states. Most of the red states now the New Confederacy had heretofore taken more federal aid than they paid back in federal taxes. South Carolina, for example, takes $1.38 in federal money for every dollar it pays in federal taxes. Louisiana takes $1.45 for every dollar it pays into the system. Talk about moochers and freeloaders. By the way, this money is redistributed from other states, including the blue states with their abortion-on-demand and evil healthcare mandate. After secession, that gravy train would cease to exist. Farmers, corporations, small businesses, universities and law enforcement would crumble without federal aid grants, contracts, matching funds, tax breaks, etc.
If the reality of losing federal money wasnt enough to convince the New Confederacy to stop behaving like petulant, tantrum-throwing children, then an array of more hard-core sanctions would begin. Its likely the power grid, pipelines, shipping lanes and, yes, satellite and internet communications would be summarily blocked by the U.S. government. The confederacy would be totally cut off from the rest of the world. Meanwhile, without federal regulations on food safety, clean water, clean air, and without the CDC, rampant disease would spread across the confederacy. How would northern medical equipment and pharmaceuticals reach the seceded states? Inflation would skyrocket as demand for dwindling supplies increased. Black-marketeers would spring up in every town.
The solidly blue areas inside the seceded states Austin, for instance would be the Texas equivalent to West Berlin in the heart of East Germany. Wed have to airlift supplies to those areas and hope that hoards of desperate and well-armed suburban and rural warlords didnt swoop in try to swipe the supplies. Needless to say, there would be a large scale humanitarian crisis."
http://inthecapital.com/channels/the-reality-of-secession-and-unicorns/
It would suck for them. Oh well.