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=thebigspendur;676287]I just came back from a trip into the near future yesterday.
The election is over and all the teaparty candidates have won. They control the house and senate. A couple of them have gotten together and are sure in their minds they need to cut Govt spending so they refuse to allow the budget to even come up for a vote. They refuse to allow a continuing resolution to be past. Govt shuts down. Not for a week or two but for several months.
Social security checks aren't issued, Gov't pensioners get squat, Doctors don't get paid for medicare and refuse all such patients, All govt contractors don't get paid and start laying off hundreds of thoudands of employees, they have to call out the Army to man border crossings because the court won't let them force people to work without pay over such a long time. People now find out how much Govt really contributes to society because without these programs States have to start laying off millions and people are literally starving and dying in the streets and govt debts aren't getting paid and foreign investors are getting nervous and the dollar starts to fall in value.
I guess the army would still be allowed to work without pay? Each state would have to take over local millitary installations. I also suspect charity would make a big comeback when communities re-learned that they need to take care of their own instead of relying on a national government, one thing americans would never put up with is people dying in the streets. People would also realize how much the national government takes from society, since federal tax would stay in their states. States like california who depend on billions coming to keep their state solvent(if memory serves they are counting on 5 billion to balance the books this year), would have some hard choices, but those choices would be made easier to make without momma sams handouts.
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So after 7 months the President meets with the Supreme court and says what can we do and they tell him under the constitution nothing you have to negotiate with these two senators.
They won't negotiate. They want it their way or the highway.
So the administration is faced with the total collapse of the country.
Hmm, what do you think???
The one thing you forgot in your scenario is that state and local governments would still be in place. While I am sure there would be a huge adjustment period, the states could use the federal tax, since there would be no reason to send it to washington(the IRS would be gone) and would eventually get things back under control, then the states would probably decide that they need to join together for purposes of defense and foreign commerce and would write a new constitution in a convention, that would give the new federal government certain enumerated powers, like defense and would leave out all the powers that the current government had in place that had caused all the pain to the state governments when it first shut down after the budget impass. Then it would probably take about 80 years before the people forgot about why the federal government was given only certain powers and they would start making small additions, eventually leading to the same thing to happen all over again.
