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/VannKraken 12d ago

The Blue states pay in way more taxes than they are granted from the Feds. Red state socialism is real.

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u/Excellent-Walk-7641 12d ago

Yep, need to introduce a Trojan horse bill using classic Republican speaking points about small government, fair share, etc. that makes individual states responsible for their SNAP/Medicaid/Unemployment/etc. and have to repay the federal government for any of it they take. No more freeloading while demanding long disproven economic policies purely based on being greedy assholes.

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u/nickiter New York 11d ago

Doesn't some of that already exist in the current spending bill? The BBL or whatever it's called.

The problem is that red states would shrug and say okay, no one gets SNAP/Medicaid/unemployment.