• @[email protected]
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    Hi, Clevelander here. I have no horse in this race, but thanks for making Mamdani go from being completely unheard of from me, to now a household name due to the Streisand effect.

    Thanks for letting me know who I’m voting for in 2028.

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      I agree with the sentiment, but it’s individuals and businesses paying the federal taxes in NYC. You’d have to somehow get them all to agree to put their personal freedoms at risk by not paying their federal taxes

      Donald Trump knows he faces no personal risk by withholding funding, because the SCOTUS has declared him immune. He can break any law with impunity

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        Well, the IRS uses regional IRS offices which would be easier to disrupt if a large number of states such as KY, MO, and NY participated, and there is some talk of something like that happening soon in WI, NY, MD, and CT as a result of Trump withholding federal funding for programs which were passed by congress.

        This definitely isn’t a battle Trump would want to escalate if he were smart.

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    Trump is white supremacist extremist pornography in my opinion.

    New York state should require anyone wanting to consume media of Trump online should have to give NY state two pieces of ID and wait for NY to verify them being ovr 21 or be blocked.

  • @[email protected]
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    I guess mamdani better start grabbing women by the pussy, committing felonies, sucking Russian dicks, and committing treason.

  • @[email protected]
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    They bring in more taxes than they spend, “cutting them off” will only benefit them as long as they are smart enough to keep the revenue in state.

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    So, NYC gets about $100B in federal funds annually. I wonder how much they pay in taxes to the federal government. I’d bet they pay more than they get.

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      The problem is that federal income taxes are generally paid directly by employers to the federal government. It’s not clear by what mechanism states and/or cities might withhold them.

      It’s true that the State of New York, and NYC are both large employers, so hypothetically I guess they could refuse to collect income taxes from their employees on behalf of the federal government, but certainly the IRS would still hold the individual taxpayers responsible for those taxes at the end of the year.

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        257 days ago

        If it gets to the point where the States are withholding money from the federal government, I’d wager it’s because they no longer view the federal government as legitimate. I guess, good luck to the IRS trying to collect?

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          What would stop the IRS from sending federal agents arresting people on the streets? We’ve already seen ICE doing it without badges, uniforms, or warrants

          This is the problem with a dictatorship. They have too much power. They can do whatever they want

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            What would stop the IRS from sending federal agents arresting people on the streets

            I thought they fired all of them?

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              26 days ago

              With our communications, transactions, and travel all recorded, and soon to be fed into AI for threat assessment, it’s going to be very difficult to organize without predicted leaders getting MLK’d.

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        The state is a pretty big employer, so that portion might be held back for a while. That would still have to be paid by the end of the year, though.

    • Fingolfinz
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      You’re going to drive yourself crazy with those questions. Just accept that this piece of shit, under qualified administration will be doing illegal shit and being shameless hypocrites multiple times on a daily basis and start finding ways to resist, no matter how big or small.

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        I just need the answer on record. I’m fine with protesting. However if the sitting president can steal money from the people bc of party difference, yeah violence will be the correct response.

        Disclaimer: I am not calling for violence, mods.

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          Hell yeah. We’re well beyond the time where the vanguard needs to get at it

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    “He’s a radical left lunatic,” Trump said.

    Says the radical fascist lunatic. Projection is omnipresent in this new Nazi Führer Cult party.

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    Cool, maybe we’ll stop giving charity to all the red states then. NY can be self sufficient. Shit hole red states can’t.

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    Insurrectionist traitors who should have been impeached, fired, and sent to federal prison don’t get to tell anyone how to behave. New York pays more into federal taxes than it receives, if Trump wants to kill Blue State programs he’s about to learn where the tax money comes from.