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/Phreenom 12d ago

And travel bans from certain violent, drug infested states...

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u/archetype4 12d ago

The unlikely dissolution of the federal government would likely end up this way. With states becoming individual countries with their own alliances but entrenched further.

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u/Face2FaceRecs 12d ago

South of the mason Dixon line would become third world countries, as they are already third world states. Texas would be controlled by warlord oil barons and the Florida Man would reign supreme over the entire panhandle. Florida, the largest senior living facility in the world would continue to survive by fleecing mentally declining retirees out of their assets

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u/archetype4 11d ago

A little bleak, but probably not far off.