Remember the Alimony!

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that only the federal government can decide border issues and not states.  In this specific case, the ruling blocks Texas from putting razor wire across its southern border, which of course is the southern border of the Unites States, and so in turn was blocking U.S. Customs and Border Protection from accessing migrants.
 
(While this ruling seemed like a no-brainer, the very conservative court only ruled by a slim margin of 5-4.  I was going to say “razor thin margin,” but that seemed unnecessary.)
 
As a result of the ruling, there has been a small outbreak in Texas of calls for the state to get a divorce from the Union and secede.  No word yet on who they think would get the children. But that's not surprising because clearly they haven't thought this break-up through.
 
My position on secession, as I’ve noted on other occasions when whining Red state cry to secede, is very simple --

Let any state that wants to secede do so.  Then, since they are clearly enemies of the United States, and clearly are significant threats to the nation by virtue of bordering the U.S., the American government should then declare war on them and send in the military.  After we defeat these rogue nations, which should take, I'm guessing, about 45 minutes if traffic is heavy, given that they won't have a financial system or...well, military (not even the National Guard since, after all, it's "National"), we then take all the assets as spoils of war that we believe are to our nation's interest -- such as mail service, and interstate highways -- and then negotiate a fair peace over whatever remains, which they can keep, like local DMVs, their crumbling schools, and unemployment insurance.
 
But I also like when pockets of people living Red states are so “outraged” that they cry out mournfully to secede because it lets me bring out the old chestnut --
 
To start with, no state has a right to secede on its own.  It's, of course, unconstitutional so if Texas said it seceded, it would still be part of the United States.  And so, you can pretty much stop there.  But there are so many things that this gibberish cry completely ignores if a state ever did, somehow, miraculously manage to secede from the Union that it’s worth referencing them once again.  Among them are --

It would need its own currency and monetary system.

It would need its own military – Army, Air Force, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, missile defense system (and as noted, they’d have no National Guard) – to protect its borders and be able to fight off an invasion from being taken over by another country.  Or another state.
  
It would get zero federal aid.  This is an especially big one, since Texas get $68 billion in aid, which is about one-third of its budget.
 
There would be no federal subsidies for industries that exist in states, which might drive some of those businesses out of the states.
 
If any state actually could secede (it can’t), it would have no access to the federal highway system and to any interstate commerce.

It would need its own postal service.
 
Residents of any state that seceded, if it could (it can’t) would need a passport to travel outside it borders into the U.S.   And need to go through immigration control every time they left – and returned.  (In fact, it’s possible that they would need proof of vaccination to enter the U.S.) 

All business outside the state would require international documentation.  The added costs of doing business might also drive some corporations from “foreign” states into states in the U.S.
 
Every resident of Texas over the age of 62 would lose their Social Security and Medicare benefits.

If Texas ever somehow managed to secede, it wouldn't be able to vote for any Republican to be U.S. president. (And the GOP would lose all those Electoral Votes it counts on.)  For that matter, Texas would no longer even have a U.S. senator or any members of the U.S. House.
  
This is just me, and I’m going out on a limb – and others may not agree -- but I don’t get the sense Texans calling for secession are thinking this through…