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Trump admin says it’s cutting welfare funds to blue states over alleged Minnesota fraud
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Those blue state citizens are what funds the red states...
I've been saying it for almost a year now, it won't be easy but blue states need to stop having employees federal taxes sent off every check. Instead send it to a fund, when trump pulls shit like this, use the fund to make up the difference.
It's gonna come to that point eventually and it's a complicated process, so we should have it set up and ready to pull the trigger.
For real, if California and New York alone stopped paying federal taxes, the federal government would go bankrupt immediately.
Why pay into a system that won't pay anything back out to you? Those funds are just going to the likes of Thiel and Musk, who already don't pay enough taxes. Fuck em.
On an individual level everyone can do this today, change your federal withholding to $0 on a w4.
It's 100% legal, and you will still need to pay taxes in April. But you can just not pay anything ahead of time. That whole process is essentially a payment plan that's relatively new but already taken for granted of by the government.
There's an under withholding penalty fee to prevent exactly this.
We've already seen enough examples of "doing things at the individual level" to know that not even close to "everyone" will be on board.
By all means, do it. But don't expect the level of solidarity required to make the federal treasury even notice.
Things like this require collective action, and since the average american is union-phobic, the only organizations we can look to are the state governments. But since they don't handle federal taxes, there's not much they can do short of seceding from the union. Which would be a bit too extreme as long as there's even an inkling of hope in a free and fair election followed by a peaceful transfer of power saving us.
In short, we're fucked.
I'm not even pushing it, just saying technically anyone could do it easily.
I agree, and I even explained that in a different comment somewhere. I just find it highly doubtful that enough people will do it for it to make a difference.
Do you know how many people would flock to blue states if they thought didn't have to pay federal income tax? It would be madness.
They would still be paying the tax
Blue states have most of the adults worth having.
Do you know how many people would flock to blue States if they thought their taxes were going to be spent on anything that will benefit them?
More people would flock to blue states if they could do basic math surrounding long term cost of living expenses.
So...they'll leave the states where taxes above and beyond what they pay are spent on them? That seems like an incredibly ignorant response, so it tracks.
Before calling others ignorant, you should try to properly comprehend what you respond to.
isn't that the point?
I think that would be a feature, not a bug.
And it would go to show the spines of the proud Red Staters when they all flee to a blue state because its 1000x better