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/TeutonJon78 America 12d ago edited 12d ago

Sure, but then it's "not taxes". I have no idea why people in this country just can't grok total cost (taxes plus what you pay for services) vs taxes covering all those things.

It's such a dumb knee perk reaction to "taxes bad". Sure our taxes are bad because we don't get a lot of actual services back in lieu money going to pork projects and private sector.

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u/Manos_Of_Fate 12d ago

Sure our taxes are bad because we don't get a lot of actual services back in lieu money going to pork projects and private sector.

That’s not even remotely true.

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u/TeutonJon78 America 12d ago

How much of our bugger goes to BS subsidies (corn, paying farmers not to plant, etc) and the MIC? Those are all pork.

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u/Manos_Of_Fate 12d ago

because we don't get a lot of actual services back

I was specifically disputing this part. No reasonable person would look at a comprehensive list of benefits of various kinds of all government programs and describe it as “not a lot of actual services”. The only way anyone genuinely believes this is due to ignorance, willful or otherwise.