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This is a fun thought game. I’m going to bullet point some things in no particular order of importance. But first I am going to make some assumptions. Feel free to debate me on any of these things.First I am going to assume the Confederate States (heretofore referred to as CS) bring up this proposal and the remaining US states (to be called newUS) overwhelmingly want to fight them on it initially but then upon reflection realize, “Damn, this solves almost all of our irreconcilable differences”.Secondly, the Confederacy are allowed to elect a president and whatever form of Congress they intend to have but they have no power for a 10 year process of gaining full autonomy. Any changes in laws that would violate US federal law in those transitional 10 years would have to be presented to the newUS for permission and ratification.Third, CS would no longer be allowed to vote in US elections and would no longer have representation in Congress.Fourth, the ten year period would include a moratorium on some applicable laws allowing for the negotiation of businesses changing headquarters, new International laws for travel, export/import and public citizenship issues/changes, negotiating a nuclear treaty, moving military installations and equipment, yada yada yada.Fifth, over the transition the CS would not be bound by any new or altered laws passed in the newUS.Sixth, all taxes and federally allocated funds from and to the CS would taper off to zero over the 10 year transition.Seventh, all governmental employees or contractors that have pledged an oath to the USA and her Constitution would be allowed a one time forgiveness of that pledge without prejudice but in so doing would have to move in a timely manner to CS. All governmental employees living/working in the CS that wished to uphold their allegiance to the US would, in a timely manner, be relocated within the newUS.Ten years later….The newUS would have passed laws sharply reducing the number and types of guns permitted. To quell some peoples in redder states that remain newUS allows great leeway on non semi-automatic hunting rifles. They also allow for people to keep any gun they already have yet many varieties must be registered and often they must be disabled so they can be kept as memorabilia but not as a functioning weapon. Handguns can be kept but the owner must register them and show they took the proper training courses over a two year period. Police can do random visits at normal hours to verify proper storage and safety is being maintained on all guns. Programs of buybacks or swapping now outlawed guns for permitted varieties of a similar function. Owners of newly illegal gun types can legally transport their arsenal to the SC or sell them to willing buyers in SC. Laws are passed to make transporting any newly illegal weapon from SC into newUS a crime punishable by very extreme criminal and civil penalties. Checkpoints entering newUS are numerous and aggressive.(going with the idea that inflation and costs will generally rise hand in hand) As of 2019 CS pay $383.0Billion in federal taxes and receive $1,096B. The newUS would now have 713.1 Billion more dollars to spend (unadjusted for a decade into the future). Least biased estimates say that Medicare for all will cost 32 Trillion over 10 years but will save individuals and governments and businesses about 26 Trillion. So the 7.13 Trillion saved from no longer giving government assistance to CS covers the price difference and affords all newUS citizens health insurance. Soon to be President Buttigieg wins while running in 2028 by saying “Everyone will have full healthcare and the Quitters to our South will pay for it.”There are very vocal, unhappy pockets of people. In the newUS it is found in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas and the Dakotas. Alaska has their protest minimized by some generous diversion of people and government money/programs that are a windfall to the state. As for Utah, although many of the protesters call on them to join in the fight, they seem to prefer to stay in the Us, even the newUS, than to have Evangelicals force dogma upon their faith. In the SC South Florida, Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston and New Orleans have incessant and business dampening marches, sit ins and firebombs. Although the newUS protesters are more prone to violence, the fact that they account for less than 5% of the population and are largely in isolated far flung locals make them far less an issue than the CS protestors who account for over 25% of the populace and find there numbers in most of the economic, densely populated hubs.Social Security was a key part of negotiations. in the end what was agreed was that newUS would continue to pay retirement benefits/disability in full for any retiree entering the system before the full separation of sovereignty. After the 10 year transition CS would assume all Disability payments and anyone that aged into SSI after the separation. In exchange for newUS assuming so much of this debt, CS was bound to keep payments at the level it was along with biannual COLA until 2040. As newUS saw it this was a preferable situation than having millions of elderly and disabled people flooding in and putting strain on the services and budgets of many cities. Military Pensions worked largely the same way. After 2040 CS passed very austere cuts to SSI but newUS had passed laws denying “Quitters” from becoming citizens if they could not afford to pay for themselves, show a full time job offer and forego any claims to SSI predating 2020. Ironical many desperate seniors illegally immigrated to Mexico and newUS in an attempt to get cheaper drugs and to be able to live within their budgetCS adopted much of the US Constitution but the expected changes were made. Although one still had Freedom of Religion but it was codified that CS was a Christian Nation. Thus you could worship most any religion but you were not treated equal to Christian sects and you did not have full implied rights they had. Freedom of the press was largely curtailed. Blasphamy was a crime including any parody or “hate speech” against a proclaimed Christian. Enforcement of this was rare and largely arbitrary. Abortions, homosexuality and all drugs except alcohol and tobacco products is now illegal and carry severe punishments up to and including death. The Death penalty is the law of the land. Gun ownership is not only a fully acknowledged Right but most states allow fully automatic weapons and most explosives without any license or training required (except to Muslims, Hindus and other “violent” religions as they define them). Some states even require gun training in schools and for all Christian adults to own at least two firearms and NRA membership. Four years military service is required because of the perceived threat that newUS, although it agreed to let them succeed, at any moment plans to invade and make them Godless again.CS making not only abortion but contraceptives illegal created a host of issues for both countries. CS would find itself with over 5,000 deaths per year from women self inducing abortions. Then there were the tens of thousands of women with medical issues from those attempts as well as the thousands of kids born with mental and or physical disabilities expected by their OBGYN early in their birth. A great many people from every income group would cross into newUS to have legal abortions done. A heated debate began in newUS about these visitors. Early on the clinics were giving them very low cost abortions as all healthcare was now free/low cost. CS was furious over newUS allowing these people to circumvent their laws and God’s will. Many in newUS agreed that we should not be footing a bill for Quitters that regretted their choice of allegiance. Still others felt it was our Humanitarian duty. As usual money won out. newUS allowed abortions to be performed for these women but charged exorbitant rates by exempting CSers from abortion coverage. Abortion seekers were kept confidential. Soon there were thousands of entrepreneurial Abortion clinics within 25 miles of the CS border. In some areas there were gifts offered, theme clinics (New Mexico has both an Area 51 and an Alien autopsy themed clinic on the same stretch of highway) and Abortion vacations with spas, theaters, mud baths and mani-pedis. If a returning CS citizen is found to have had an abortion while “on vacation” they can receive up to 15 years in prison. A second violation gets a sentence of death by public stoning. Anyone that aided or abetted an abortion gets a 5 year sentence. newUS anti-terrorism unit recently reported that 50% of their efforts are focused on stopping the Radical Christian problem where anti-abortion Quitters in suicide vest or armed with automatic weapons and dozens of multi round clips infiltrate our borders to kill abortionist. In 2039, 4,217 people were killed on the border by the Women Doing God’s Will Organization that sent 200 women to 200 separate abortion locations with a prosthetic baby-bump filled with C-4. As the buildings exploded and people fled the area deeply religious men embedded then mowed down others, many not even associated with the abortionist, in rapid fire barrage. A memorial was built to remember the slain in Wichita, where 312 of the victims were. “Never Forget!” CS built a memorial 76 feet taller than the newUS one in remembrance of the 76 innocent fetuses that were collateral damage in the attack.Illegal drug trafficking in CS saw an odd new addition - contraceptives. Condoms, birth control pills, morning after drugs. CS authorities say the black market contraceptives is a 30 billion a dollar a year criminal enterprise. 7 month pregnant Sally Pryde became a Youtube+ sensation when her brother-in-law filmed her alcohol induced rant about how “That F—-ING LIBTARD” (the most common term CSers use for newUSers) cheated her out of $850 dollars by selling her a few hundred individual Pez tablets as “illegal” birth control pills. Pez sales quadrupled that year.[I have to work so I will have to return to this post to give it more fullness]