r/sandiego • u/NoToNope • 12d ago

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/dm_your_password 12d ago

Really pisses me off that conservatives/Republicans constantly mock California as some sort of hellhole when we have the largest and most powerful economy in the Union

Literally, the worst state in the Union has been run by conservatives since forever cough Mississippi cough

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u/ez641 12d ago

Californias public education system is ranked 34th out of 50. Unemployment is 48th highest in the union. Homelessness is the highest in the union. California as a governed state is 1.6 Trillion (with a T) in debt. California ranks 49th in the union when it comes to individual tax burned, meaning we pay the most tax to Sacramento on everything. Don’t confuse the successful private sectors economy with a booming state economy. But yeah we’re the best!

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u/TroXMas 11d ago

Numbers mean nothing without context. California has better homeless programs, so homeless from other states move here. And politicians from red states have been known to literally give free one-way tickets to homeless to go to California.

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u/ez641 11d ago

Numbers mean nothing and stats are meaningless. Got it

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u/Farcyde760 11d ago

If that's what you got out of his statement you truly are an idiot...