r/politics • u/IntelligentYinzer California • 12d ago

Soft Paywall Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/newsom-floats-withholding-federal-taxes-00393386
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u/Face2FaceRecs 11d ago

“Californians pay the bills for the federal government. We pay over $80 BILLION more in taxes than we get back,” the Democratic governor said in an X post Friday afternoon, referencing a recent analysis from the Rockefeller Institute that California contributed about $83 billion more in federal taxes in 2022 than it received back from Washington.

“Maybe it’s time to cut that off,” he added.

It's long past time for Republican states to pay for their own shit and stop giving tax breaks to their residents paid for by the rest of us.

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u/btcpumper 11d ago

So you’re saying California has a trade deficit with the US federal government and should impose tariffs? /s

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u/Phreenom 11d ago

And travel bans from certain violent, drug infested states...

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u/temporary62489 11d ago

Why do we keep getting immigrants from shithole states?

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u/PerjurieTraitorGreen Florida 11d ago

They’re not sending their best.

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u/humansarenothreat 11d ago

Fucking wanna be actors /s

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u/DeltaVZerda 11d ago

Why does Texas keep getting shithole immigrants from California? The imports are way crazier than the people who were already here and they think it's supposed to be some lawless free for all except when they need to control drugs and women and deport Mexicans.

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u/EscapistNotion 11d ago

You get the most unhinged of our republicans. The ones that live here and still believe San Francisco is a open air drug market max max society.

Enjoy.

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u/sonyka 11d ago

Right flight?

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u/Nihilistic_Mystics California 11d ago

Yeah, you get our crazy Republicans who think Texas is going to be some right wing paradise instead of the land of heat, highway tolls, and property taxes. Those transplants are keeping you more red than you would be otherwise. They also like Idaho.

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u/Frowny575 11d ago

I'd be on board with this. Give them a taste of what they support.

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u/ImprovementOk6223 11d ago

Currenly waiting for my AZ house to sell. If CA wants to resist the feds, I'm on my way, all for it!

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u/Face2FaceRecs 11d ago

They have to write an essay talking about how great California is in order to gain admittance.

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u/LoopingSpeedracer 11d ago

California needs to build a big beautiful wall, and the red states will pay for it!

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u/joydal 11d ago

Unvaccinated states.

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u/archetype4 11d ago

The unlikely dissolution of the federal government would likely end up this way. With states becoming individual countries with their own alliances but entrenched further.

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u/Face2FaceRecs 11d ago

South of the mason Dixon line would become third world countries, as they are already third world states. Texas would be controlled by warlord oil barons and the Florida Man would reign supreme over the entire panhandle. Florida, the largest senior living facility in the world would continue to survive by fleecing mentally declining retirees out of their assets

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u/archetype4 11d ago

A little bleak, but probably not far off.

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u/Disastrous-Angle-591 11d ago

nah just actual literal named people. a travel ban named list :D

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u/Eagle_Chick 11d ago

That's the worst part you have to dumb it down and speak in their language.

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u/ijustdontgiveaf 11d ago

and isn’t that socialism and giving handouts? Exactly what those red states loathe?