“If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”
Finally, some fucking BALLS
All the bots on this site like to shit on Americans, “Why aren’t you doing something?!” And the answer to the stupid question is that individual actions are pointless and that if we wanted to do something, you need a rallying point.
This is that rallying point. This is the kind of movement you can get behind to tell the feds to fuck off. I’ve said it before, I served my time, and I’m not sure I’d serve the country again right now, but I would 100% serve New Jersey.
I kind of hope that actually goes through. Why should my tax dollars in a blue state go towards building a military base in Missouri which is also giving heavy subsidies to help the locals around there just afford to live and work near the base.
Red states can go ahead and do the same thing when a Dem is in control of the Fed Govt, it’s not like they contribute anything anyways.
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No taxation without representation. And Trump made it clear he only supports red states.
But it’s limited, because most of that distribution and transfer comes from individual taxpayers,
This is the real truth of it. You don’t really have state governments sending tax payments to the federal government, they’re not collecting the federal taxes from their residents. You’d basically have to get every employer in the state to stop sending in the tax payments on employees’ behalf. And then every resident would have to also not pay those taxes individually.
I mean, it would be an amazing feat and a really strong signal to have that much unity to do it. But seems really unlikely for any state-wide population to be that well co-ordinated and unified.
Announce everyone in your state will have legal representation if they declare exempt
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The state also pays a lot of people.
Yep, as of 2021 approx 15% of the state population was employed at the local, state, and federal level. So all the rest of NJ residents would have to work something else out with their employer of all be doing it individually. Unions could probably help get that organized, though.
All blue states need to tell their citizens to declare exempt until the entire Trump administration and every last ice Gestapo is in prison
How does a state stop paying federal taxes? Is it not the people who pay the taxes?
Presumably, the state stops kicking up the federal government’s share. And hopefully stops collecting it from state residents during tax season, instead of just pocketing it.
Edit: it’s probably obvious but this comment is made without any knowledge about how taxes are collected and funneled through government.
It doesn’t. Politico, as usual, is publishing bullshit
It is unclear how such a proposal would work, and Sherrill’s transition team declined to elaborate.
It’s a fine idea, but it’d be best implemented as an escrow account used to leverage the federal government into following the law.
