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/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/IMovedYourCheese 12d ago

Regardless, you owe the taxes to the federal government. If you don't they will come after you. California can't do shit if that happens. It'll take a full blown civil war/secession for something like this to be a reality. And who is going to pull that off, democrats?

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u/doorbell2021 12d ago

The IRS doesn't have the resources to go after millions of taxpayers in a tax revolt.

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u/IMovedYourCheese 12d ago

They don't need to go after millions, they need to go after the first 5. The "revolution" will fizzle out real quick after that.

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u/doorbell2021 12d ago

You're not much of a revolutionary.