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Even though this one is a spoof, the idea has a lot of merit. The country is on the verge of collapse anyhow, and it might be best to break it up before the Chinese lay claim to the ruins of the whole place.

And splitting up the country is going to prevent this? It seems more likely to hasten that very result.

[FourtySeven]

This is something I hadn’t considered before (national debt).

How would that be distributed in the secessionist plan? It seems to me that would be a huge (probably insurmountable) obstacle to the plan. How would the states decide which amount is “owed” by whom?

Could the seceding states wash themselves completely of the debt? If so, which one wouldn’t secede?

Would each state “owe” 1/50th? That wouldn’t be just to some of the midwestern states that can’t be said to have “created” an equal amount of the debt over the years.

I would think this issue would be the one to truly kill this idea. I don’t see a way around it that would be just.