While I understand the logic behind Virginia's effort to return to a gold standard, it would be a bad idea for every state, individually, to adopt its own currency. Unless the entire country has the same currency, we would no longer be the United States. We would be 50 separate functioning economies. I shudder to think what would happen to the currency of California and other liberal states. Can't you just imagine that they would just print "Monopoly" money and expect the rest of the world to honor it?