So start at the top. 1) If 80% of the tax revenue comes from those blue states on the map, those states deciding to withhold tax money is a huge amount. Just CA pays $692 billion a year. 2) A soft secession means defying federal laws. Pass a state law saying all federal taxes must go through 1/

the state, which will hold it in escrow if the federal govt isn't servng taxpayer rights to equal treatmet under 14A. 3) SCOTUS says you have to pay. Defy SCOTUS, saying "state's rights." 4) Maga has decimated the IRS. What are they going to do to enforce? 5) If the feds print new money, they'd 2/

have to make up for so much lost revenue, they can't succeed. 6) Things get really ugly. Do strikes and boycotts. All of this is wildly radical. Isn't what Trump/Maga is doing right now wildly radical? Trying to work under the "norms" Magas defy every day just won't work. 3/

Far more astute people than I are working on this as we speak: calmatters.org/economy/2025....