The main obstacles are the Ponzi schemes known as Social Security and Medicare. Many Conservatives have had so much taken from us over the 30 or 40 years of our careers to fund this idiocy that we can’t afford to retire without it. How would we allocate the liability for providing this ? How would we allocate responsibility for the national debt ? These things require Federal taxes to pay for because they are Federal obligations, and that tax burden dwarfs the tax benefits of moving to one state or another. FDR planned this disaster with malice aforethought, but he planned it well. Short of a slow unwinding of federal powers, or an explosive collapse, we are stuck — an amicable separation is not possible.
“The main obstacles are the Ponzi schemes known as Social Security and Medicare. Many Conservatives have had so much taken from us over the 30 or 40 years of our careers to fund this idiocy that we can’t afford to retire without it. How would we allocate the liability for providing this ? “
I say we give them all the money we have and let them invest it or not as they choose. Privatize it except with one caveat, NO MORE REQUIREMENT TO PLAY THE GAME!
Then at least there is a snow balls chance in hell of them getting something as apposes to the basically nothing they are getting now.
“How would we allocate responsibility for the national debt ?”
Standard rules is to sum up all the existing Federal assets per state and assign dept accordingly in share of their value.
“These things require Federal taxes to pay for because they are Federal obligations, and that tax burden dwarfs the tax benefits of moving to one state or another. FDR planned this disaster with malice aforethought, but he planned it well. Short of a slow unwinding of federal powers, or an explosive collapse, we are stuck — an amicable separation is not possible.”
Not really once you assign the dept according to assets and population, so do you you get the transfer of theses “obligations” Most of which are technically unconstitutional and thus technically disregardful, but that doesn’t mean we would.
Thinks like social security and Medicare being in large part legal State obligations would have to be assumed by states at least at first.(We would get rid of and otherwise privative them later)
This web is not as complicated as you think it is, and its a lot more strait forward then not.