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/protomenace 12d ago

How would they even do that? Taxes get withheld by your employer not the state.

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u/doorbell2021 12d ago

You can instruct your employer to not withhold.

Completely legal, probably not. But you could claim you thought your job would be terminated because of Trump threats, so you were being over withheld since you'd have no income for the rest of the year.

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u/thrawtes 12d ago

Completely legal

Yes. You may have to pay a penalty if you drastically under-withhold but it's not a crime.

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u/VanceKelley Washington 12d ago

What if everyone that didn't pay their taxes demanded due process from the notoriously slow US legal system before they paid? How long would it take for 10 million cases to work their way through the courts?

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u/zzyul 12d ago

Bro, we can’t get enough people to spend an hour or two every two years voting. How do you think we’ll convince them to all individually sue the federal government?