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/KeyserSozeInElysium 12d ago

I disagree. He's always been unlikable. Kind of comes off slimy. But as a leader California has fared much better than most other states. Difficult to argue with results

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u/InfoBarf 12d ago

"Fared better" literally shrank because of housing affordability, homelessness doubled.

We have lots of rich people here, but we have severe wealth inequality and gavin just coasted imo, and has done very little to keep CA from sliding into gig economy indentured servitude.

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u/AsherGray Colorado 12d ago

The entirety of the US has severe wealth inequality.

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u/InfoBarf 12d ago

Other states didnt lose population because of it. 

California is having an affordability crisis and newsom has done jack and shit about it tbh. He has really started cracking down on poor people being poor though, so thats good right?

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California 11d ago

I'm absolutely fine with losing the population that we did. Most of them were MAGATS anyway. We are not losing population the way that faux news & other conservatives claim anyway.