The problem is employers take taxes directly out of paychecks and send directly to the federal government.

This seems the require a better descriptor. Extorting an election.

Those teach how things are supposed to work, not what to do when things don't work as they should. I'm willing to wager no government willingly teaches people how to coerce it into working for them, but at least America definitely doesn't.

Most blue areas produce money, most red areas (excluding Texas I think) are leeches.

i think people are still expected to pay federal taxes. even if trump blocked funds.

Communist, socialist, anarchist, antifa, woke, leftist. Which ones am I missing that ain’t slurs?

It's their catch all term for any policy that helps average Americans. After all, licking billionaire's butts is just too irrestible for these class traitors.

Communism, pedophiles, terrorists. Take your pick.

McCarthy never died. He just took a nap.

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.

Tbh one of my main takeaways from this presidency is that states send too much money to the federal gov and have to ask for it back. It feels like having more local control of how these dollars are spent would maybe even be bi partisan.

As somebody originally from New York State, I firmly believe that we could render the Federal government irrelevant simply through economic means alone

If Biden had an ounce of guts he would have started a shadow court with ethics rules and ignored the subprime court when it was clear they were off the rails.

Blexit

I think food and having belligerent neighbors might be a problem.

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.

Yeah but there is no quid pro quo with Mamdani. As far as I know...

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.

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.

how many times do you think any other president would have been successfully impeached for trump's roll of crime? 50? 100 times?

to me, the confidential docs debacle and j6 are the worst of the worst; the docs one stings especially because I know what it takes to obtain and maintain a security clearance and wonder how much he put at risk - both human assets and strategic plans - in his fucking bathroom - knowing that similar behavior in the military would get you a nice stretch at leavenworth federal correctional facility and you might see freedom in a few decades. maybe.

dems should enumerate the list and use it any time someone talks about presidential fitness. "Oh you're worried about a woman president, but this fuck did treason after treason and that's fine?"