Just like when many of them nearly doubled prices during those few months of super high inflation a couple years ago. No idea how people just accepted that month or two of 9% inflation somehow meant 150% prices are justified.

We really do need people to participate in the primaries in 2 years.

That said, if he wins the primary then I'm going door to door to promote his ass.

That's just propaganda by Big Breathing. You have enough oxygen in your body to last you for the rest of your life!

How else will we solve the social security issues?

I would be shocked if someone, probably British, had not fired tea from ship cannon at some point or another during the tea trade

Sounds like a question for the hydraulic press guy. See if tea compresses.

Man I wish Mythbusters was still around

I think it would be easier to compress it to the shape of cylinder, not sphere, and technically you can shoot it, but it will will dissembody during the shooting, like projectiles in the shooting, so the tea will travel a cone in space and probably do not much harm because of small weight of the particles.

A proper easy would be for everyone to modify their W4 to withhold $0.

That would definitively cause shock. The problem is how to coordinatw this with everyone else?

I've seen this mentioned a few times on Lemmy but can't find any articles talking about this. Do you have a source? It sounds very believable, but I want to make sure it's true before I start telling people.

Hang on, please tell me there should be a /s at the end of your comment

I think you are 100% right. Some governors are stating damages .. they have sent formal letters to Trump to collect on the debt owed. We will see where that goes.

This part is so fucking sad.

If they weren't so incompetent, I would have thought it was fully planned to end up like this.

If it's paying for Nazis to curb stomp citizen's rights granted by the Constitution, while depriving us of the services our tax dollars pay for, while cutting the taxes of folks who will never want for anything in life‽ Fucking absolutely against them. My tax dollars are not the Nazis slush fund for concentration camps.

I applied for a federal job, was given an offer, and had that offer revoked because of Trump’s EO against trans people. This government is actively hostile to my existence and provides me little in return, so yes.

It deprives fascists of funding and breaks the machine of oppression.

When the federal government is illegally withholding funding for programs in blue states, justified based on Fox News fever dreams? Yes, taxation is literally theft. That's the definition of theft - having money taken from you by force without receiving fair compensation in return. This is the federal government behaving less like an elected government responsible to the people and more like an occupying army. We're seeing the federal government morph into a tribute empire, where red states militarily occupy and collect tribute from the blue states. The only difference between taxes and tribute is whether you get your share of the money back. When funds are being illegally held for political reasons? You're damn right taxation is theft.

Tariffs certainly are.

They sorta have to agree (because of sovereign immunity). But there are laws like the Tucker Act and the Administrative Procedure Act that already (probably) pave the way for this lawsuit. Additionally, if the government is acting outside statutory authority (ultra vires), sovereign immunity doesn't protect the same way.

Also, this would almost certainly be heard in the U.S. Court of International Trade, which deals with tariffs and the like, and has its own rules and such. So... it's complicated?