Newsom is shitty but THIS IS THE WAY!!!

  • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Can someone explain how this would work? When I work a job and they withhold money from my check, they then pay that withheld money along with the matching taxes paid by the business directly to the federal government, don’t they? Would the state just order the businesses to send the money to them instead? If my tax dollars don’t get sent to the fed, wouldn’t the IRS still come after me to pay them?

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for it. I just don’t understand the mechanics of how it would work.

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      1 day ago

      They can’t stop the fed from collecting taxes on individuals or businesses. State agencies, maybe, but even then. Individuals get taxed by the fed.

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        23 hours ago

        They could probably pass a law that companies within California pay taxes to the fed through an escrow account held by the state, pass the data through so if nothing crazy happens, it doesn’t really affect anybody, and get enough companies to comply that Trump would back down.

        The courts would eventually decide whether or not it was legal, but by then Trump will have moved off to another target to performatively attack while pretending to help people who aren’t multi-millionaires while siphoning their money instead.