President backs Cuomo in election eve Truth Social post as Mamdani hits back at Trump’s ‘threat – it is not the law’
On the eve of New York’s well-watched mayoral election, Donald Trump issued a threat to its voters: stop Zohran Mamdani or pay.
“If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “I don’t want to send, as President, good money after bad.”
Trump’s comments echo those broadcast on Sunday during his appearance on CBS’s 60 minutes, in which he said: “It’s gonna be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York, because if you have a communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money you’re sending there.”
Hilarious watching these idiots call literally everything they don’t like “communism”.
Communist, socialist, anarchist, antifa, woke, leftist. Which ones am I missing that ain’t slurs?
Radical!
Go ahead TACO.
I’m sure it’s perfectly legal to interfere with a free and fair election.
The billionaires don’t want you to know this but you pay taxes to the states your business is located in. You don’t just “leave” because taxes. The businesses these billionaires own in New York are still subject to taxes.
What’s crazy is the right has “donated” more money to supporting cuomo than Mamdani would have even taxed them.
Businesses already set up headquarters in Delaware for tax reasons. They’re not going to leave New York City, one of biggest markets on Earth. This argument from conservatives was always stupid.
My Trump-addled father is now declaring that Wall St is going to relocate to Texas because of Mamdani’s victory. 😐
Cool so the stock market will collapse when their power goes out and the servers go out!
Yeah but there is no quid pro quo with Mamdani. As far as I know…
Communism vs the dictator l
Trump has a lot of property in New York.
Sure would be a shame if he finally saw some consequences and lost a few dozen of them.
Does the cityhave the right to seize property or is that the state that would have that authority? I suspect it’s at the state level.
I’m not sure why you think that.
Eminent Domain works just fine for both cities & states.
Because this isn’t eminent domain. They wouldn’t be taking Trump Plaza to widen the street. This is Albany’s job.
Are you telling me that you honestly believe that the City of New York (via the state of New York) can’t use eminent domain to turn that plaza into a park, school or subway station.
Because they absolutely can.
Yes, last I looked they don’t have the right to seize property on that scale.
Uh huh. Meanwhile, back in reality, New York City is currently demoing an entire neighborhood for part of a subway line.
Which was done under the MTA. The MTA is a NY State organization not an NYC one. Again this is all the role of Albany.
sure why not.
Whenever these fucks try and paint Americans as terrorists and threaten to cut off anything they create monsters they can’t control. Anyone he attacks becomes wildly popular and almost assures them victory. Especially if he has his thugs come rough them up.
Fuck you cancer. You take far too many good people while skipping this piece of shit.
Well, It did hit Scott Adams, so that’s something.
Idk man, I see a lot of red caps at a certain party’s rallies
red = obvious communist symbolism
I think those caps even say “make america great again” which obviously sounds like a communist slogan
I’d say we arrest these filthy communists 😏
sounds like a communist slogan
I’ve always been amused by the fact that “gung ho” (which in Mandarin means “pull together”, as in pulling on a rope in unison) started out as a slogan of the Chinese Communist Party under Mao and then migrated to the US during WWII because of an openly-communist Marine. Its real meaning is more like “be a team player” but it was somehow transformed into “eagerly shoot brown people”.
Also, the Marines’ “ooh rah” chant sounds exactly like the Soviet Red Army’s chant. More weird shit.
“gung ho” (which in Mandarin means “pull together”, as in pulling on a rope in unison)
I’m a native Mandarin speaker and I’m so confused what ur talking about lolz.
You mean like 共和? “together in unison/harmony” aka: “republicanism”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gung_ho
The wikipedia article doesn’t mention the “pull together” (as in rope pulling) interpretation. That was from a book about Mao that I read a long time ago, I can’t remember what it was. The book had a bit about Evans Carlson traveling with Mao’s army and meeting him. I am certainly not a Chinese speaker so I’m happy to have my inaccuracies corrected.
Sounds like a borrowed term from a random word converted into English. I wasn’t aware there were any nationwide propaganda slogan related to it, looks like just some random slogan from a state-owned organization.
So that would mean that New York could stop paying federal taxes, no? I’m sure it contributes more than it receives
I always find it hilarious how red states and their leaders are all about cutting off funds to the blue states that fund their miserable existence. “We will secede from the US!” Ok Boomer, good luck with funding yourself as all of you are so mismanaged that you would fail to feed your own population within the year.
lol NY doesn’t need “his” funds. Trump needs NY funds though.
I’d love to see NYC set up a voluntary escrow account for federal taxes.
You don’t have to pay shit till taxes are due, have NYC sit on their withholdings and trump won’t be able to build any ballrooms.
Other states should protest by withholding taxes, as well. United, yes?
That’s not really how it works - there’s no one big sack of cash that gets handed over by the state, individual businesses (and people) pay their taxes to the IRS directly, and then separately to the state tax agencies (obvs leaving out some of the draconian nuance here). States don’t have a practical method of withholding taxes short of going to every business and demanding they stop paying the feds. While hypothetically possible at some point, it’s not in the short term feasible.
There is a big sack of cash that gets handed over by the state: the federal payroll taxes for all the state government employees.
In comparison to all federal taxes payed out by people within a state, that’s a pretty miniscule sack of cash. The government is among the largest employers in every state true, but their payroll contributions aren’t anything compared to the whole and they’re paltry compared to things like business-derived tax revenue. States could withhold them, yes, but it wouldn’t do much if they did.
I’m not comparing to the whole. I’m comparing to states sitting on their hands and doing nothing in the face of a rogue government in D.C. that’s pulling shit like withholding disaster relief to blue states.
Federal payroll taxes for California state government workers, just using the portion that the employer pays, total ~$22 billion a year. And let’s say there’s another ~$15 billion for New York. Now imagine every blue state withholds theirs. Seems like a good chunk of change.
It’s not nothing, but it’s really just not very much in context. Together those make up around the same amount trump is causally refusing to release from the SNAP emergency funds (~$33 billion) and that shortfall is being mitigated. Not trivially, it would be awesome to have that cash and people will feel it, but cutting those funds off for a full year would result in something like two weeks of reduced SNAP benefits or a couple days of federal furlough.
I disagree. I think having everyone send their federal taxes to a state entity for leverage purposes would be an interesting development. The individual is protected, and the state holds the bag.
How would the individual be protected from the IRS if they are penalized by the IRS for non-payment of taxes. Just because you sent a check to some state entity doesn’t mean those federal taxes have been paid, and that state entity likely wouldn’t have the authority or resources to protect you from the IRS.
It would be kind of like sending your mortgage payment to your lawyer when you have a dispute with your bank. You still owe that money to the bank, and they can take action for non-payment.
Some jurisdictions allow escrow payment when in a legal conflict, in which case you actually might be sending money to your lawyer instead
… Probably doesn’t apply for US taxes, but it’s a thing
It would be kind of like sending your mortgage payment to your lawyer when you have a dispute with your bank. You still owe that money to the bank, and they can take action for non-payment.
Well, kinda. But in this example, you’ve put the money in escrow, which gives you protection while everything plays out in court
But you as an individual won’t be suing the IRS so escrow makes no sense in this case.
Yes, but you’ve also separated the money and put it under the care of a third party. And presumably, you’d do this as a matter of state law
When the IRS comes knocking, you can say “sure thing, your money is over there, as according to local laws”. The IRS can then sue you, but you followed the law and set the money aside - clearly you weren’t attempting to avoid paying
Which realistically means the federal government needs to sue the state, either to overturn the state law or collect all the money
I’m confused, sorry: what are you disagreeing with?
That seems like a trivial position to take.
Aside from it not really working that way, that’s what they want, they want states to start acting against the union. They are intentionally stressing the constitution and governmental system so they can then use that backlash as the justification to discard more of the constitution.
It’s a bully teasing and poking and pulling your hair and being annoying until you finally swing at them, then they use that as the excuse to beat the shit out of you. It’s aggression and hate and malice being implemented as political strategy.
Agreed, but GQP gaslights this general idea all the time at Fed level.
“Let’s leave abortion up to the states…” as they come up with a plan to do the exact opposite and parrot the same lies over and over again.
djt wouldn’t be able to name the communist countries in the world to save his life. It is a very anti-American behavior to label half of Americans as enemies. The US totally includes an opposition party. Idiot still doesn’t understand what a democracy is and how to stay in his lane.
How the fuck…
When the ever loving fuck are people going to wake up and remember their government/civics lessons??
The second act begins.
