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President backs Cuomo in election eve Truth Social post as Mamdani hits back at Trump’s ‘threat – it is not the law’

On the eve of New York’s well-watched mayoral election, Donald Trump issued a threat to its voters: stop Zohran Mamdani or pay.

“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “I don’t want to send, as President, good money after bad.”

Trump’s comments echo those broadcast on Sunday during his appearance on CBS’s 60 minutes, in which he said: “It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money you’re sending there.”

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[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Hilarious watching these idiots call literally everything they don't like "communism".

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Communist, socialist, anarchist, antifa, woke, leftist. Which ones am I missing that ain’t slurs?

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

McCarthy never died. He just took a nap.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 119 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'd love to see NYC set up a voluntary escrow account for federal taxes.

You don't have to pay shit till taxes are due, have NYC sit on their withholdings and trump won't be able to build any ballrooms.

[–] ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 22 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The problem is employers take taxes directly out of paychecks and send directly to the federal government.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 23 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Pretty sure they don't have to, you can opt out and pay the full bill come tax day. That would certainly put sand in the gears.

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[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 103 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Good thing it is legal for Trump and only Trump to meddle in elections. Yay.

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 5 days ago

This seems the require a better descriptor. Extorting an election.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

This is what’s happening. We all get riled up saying NY contributes more to the federal government than it receives so Trump needs NY more than it needs Trump. Which may be true, but the reality is that Trump is trying to dissuade voters.

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 97 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Other states should protest by withholding taxes, as well. United, yes?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (10 children)

That's not really how it works - there's no one big sack of cash that gets handed over by the state, individual businesses (and people) pay their taxes to the IRS directly, and then separately to the state tax agencies (obvs leaving out some of the draconian nuance here). States don't have a practical method of withholding taxes short of going to every business and demanding they stop paying the feds. While hypothetically possible at some point, it's not in the short term feasible.

[–] witten@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (8 children)

There is a big sack of cash that gets handed over by the state: the federal payroll taxes for all the state government employees.

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[–] Quexotic 20 points 4 days ago

Go ahead TACO.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The billionaires don’t want you to know this but you pay taxes to the states your business is located in. You don’t just “leave” because taxes. The businesses these billionaires own in New York are still subject to taxes.

What’s crazy is the right has “donated” more money to supporting cuomo than Mamdani would have even taxed them.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

doesn't NY already pay more than it's ever received? Guess it's time to reserve some for the home team

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[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I may be wrong, but isn't NYC more of a money generator than it's a receiver? If that's so, I don't see how NYC would suffer, but it would widen the divide between such areas and poor dotational ones, making their people possible maga recruits.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 18 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Most blue areas produce money, most red areas (excluding Texas I think) are leeches.

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[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 59 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How the fuck...

When the ever loving fuck are people going to wake up and remember their government/civics lessons??

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Those teach how things are supposed to work, not what to do when things don't work as they should. I'm willing to wager no government willingly teaches people how to coerce it into working for them, but at least America definitely doesn't.

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[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is impeachable ... par fot the course with Trump and MAGA. So sick of injustice.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

how many times do you think any other president would have been successfully impeached for trump's roll of crime? 50? 100 times?

to me, the confidential docs debacle and j6 are the worst of the worst; the docs one stings especially because I know what it takes to obtain and maintain a security clearance and wonder how much he put at risk - both human assets and strategic plans - in his fucking bathroom - knowing that similar behavior in the military would get you a nice stretch at leavenworth federal correctional facility and you might see freedom in a few decades. maybe.

dems should enumerate the list and use it any time someone talks about presidential fitness. "Oh you're worried about a woman president, but this fuck did treason after treason and that's fine?"

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[–] ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works 34 points 5 days ago

lol NY doesn’t need “his” funds. Trump needs NY funds though.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (11 children)

Trump has a lot of property in New York.

Sure would be a shame if he finally saw some consequences and lost a few dozen of them.

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[–] lilmookieesquire@lemmy.today 39 points 5 days ago

I really can’t think of higher praise.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 12 points 4 days ago

Your move, orange boy.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Idk man, I see a lot of red caps at a certain party's rallies

red = obvious communist symbolism

I think those caps even say "make america great again" which obviously sounds like a communist slogan

I'd say we arrest these filthy communists 😏

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[–] DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Whenever these fucks try and paint Americans as terrorists and threaten to cut off anything they create monsters they can't control. Anyone he attacks becomes wildly popular and almost assures them victory. Especially if he has his thugs come rough them up.

Fuck you cancer. You take far too many good people while skipping this piece of shit.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 days ago

So that would mean that New York could stop paying federal taxes, no? I'm sure it contributes more than it receives

I always find it hilarious how red states and their leaders are all about cutting off funds to the blue states that fund their miserable existence. "We will secede from the US!" Ok Boomer, good luck with funding yourself as all of you are so mismanaged that you would fail to feed your own population within the year.

[–] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

djt wouldn't be able to name the communist countries in the world to save his life. It is a very anti-American behavior to label half of Americans as enemies. The US totally includes an opposition party. Idiot still doesn't understand what a democracy is and how to stay in his lane.

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[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm sure it's perfectly legal to interfere with a free and fair election.

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[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 28 points 5 days ago (7 children)

At this point there's little reason for blue states to remain. The US federal government is too far gone to fix and the kinds of ass wipe Democrats who would get elected certainly are going to do anything like expanding the Supreme Court or her tailing the power of the president so we might as well start from scratch

[–] rockettaco37@feddit.nu 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As somebody originally from New York State, I firmly believe that we could render the Federal government irrelevant simply through economic means alone

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[–] frankiehollywood@lemmy.zip 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

The second act begins.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

You have nothing to lose but your chains.

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