• the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    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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    “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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    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.

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    That’s called fascism.

    Time for the wealthy blue states to break away.

    You don’t bite the hand that feeds.

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      Yup.

      It’s balkanization for the Un-united States.

      Cool experiment while it lasted.

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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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    Baby dick is just keeping magat attention on Mamdani so the senate can fuck over Medicare and social security while they’re distracted

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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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    As a New Yorker I would like to see that orange fascist try. I can almost guarantee that if Zohran organizes a workers militia today itll have tens of thousands of volunteers tomorrow. I myself would happily throw arms with federal pigs.

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      I would like to see that orange fascist try

      Yanking funding from state and local agencies is almost trivial, thanks to the DOGE infestation of the US Treasury. Quite literally a matter of button-clicks.

      The dream of the Unitary Executive under Bush, has finally been realized under Trump 2. Congress simply could not stop handing the Executive branch more and more authority, both implicit and explicit, until now they’re effectively superfluous.

      The one upside is that - given the state of Trump’s BBLB - there may not be much funding left to pull from NYC by the time they’re done gutting the domestic budget.

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        The executive has so much power because the Republicans in congress are his complete bitches. And they are in charge.

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          Republicans in congress are his complete bitches

          Trump governed under a Dem Majority from 2019-21. He may well get another Dem Majority in '27, given his abysmal approval numbers.

          Nevermind how many times I’ve had to hear “You need 60 votes in the Senate to do anything” under Biden and Obama. Seems it is always the Republicans fault, whether bills are obstructed or flying to the president’s desk with a simple majority.