I’m not so sure about your assumptions. The very ‘tying’ up of those assets, whether paper or not, would cause irreparable harm. Think about his, two years ago would you have envisioned a multiple thousand page Public Healthcare bill passing - not even read? Or, 4 years ago and Republicans (President and other ‘leaders’) trying to foist amnesty off on us? No, you wouldn’t. This is going to happen. Whether it starts a shooting war really depends. Most Americans will take this as they took the healthcare and other Obama nonsense - bide their time until the next election. My assertion is that this will be too late. I’m cashing out very soon.
I believe you get taxed on that as income and in addition have to pay IRS penalties and such,too.