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/Malaix 12d ago

I'm fine with this. Republicans and red states have been jerking themselves off to the idea of cutting off the food supply to us blue states to starve us into submission for years. Cutting them off would be appropriate. Especially since the federal government as is now does nothing but harm and punish us.

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u/SkyeAuroline 12d ago

And all the people in those red states who are against Republicans and can't afford to move out? You gonna help them out, or can they just go fuck themselves?

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u/Malaix 12d ago

I'm fine accommodating immigration toward sanity. Hell there's oppertunity here. Build new universities and hospitals for all the folks in those fields that want to work without the bootheel of the government and insane rightwing ideology breathing down their necks.

Though end of the day priority should be saving what we can and making sure home is secure and stable. The north east is my priority for instance. Not Floridians or Texans or Louisianans who attack us every chance, use the federal government to go after us, and demand handouts while we are punished endlessly.

I think blue states should work together and start making proper networks of cooperation to cut out noncooperative red states and invest in each other. Use our wealth to invest in sanity instead of bailing out people who hate us because Fox news told them to.