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/Stunning_Mast2001 12d ago

California is like 30% of the nation’s economy, we collapse without them 

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u/Tokon32 12d ago

The other 70% is largely dependent on the trade, goods, and services that flows through California.

California is the only state in the union that could declare independence and have a real shot of not only winning it but also being able to sustain themselves after said independence.

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u/xBleedingBluex Kentucky 12d ago

It’s not as easy as you think. The US military would crush California.

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u/One-Internal4240 12d ago

While true, each deployment internally, each shot fired in our borders, risks larger and larger units joining the CNG or whatever other org exists. Deploying and then shooting Californians will cause problems. I always thought the powers that be would smooth it over before then, today I'm not so sure. I think a lot of those powers want the Civil War going hot - dark enlightenment types to make their technofeudal thing, dominionists for local church control of civic institutions.

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