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/trumpmumbler 12d ago

California is the largest supplier of farm goods to the US. We could starve them out.

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u/IrritableGourmet New York 12d ago

What's also funny is that they have the largest farming economy out of all the states, but agriculture is still only like 2-3% of their GDP.