Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California
Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California
Newsom is shitty but THIS IS THE WAY!!!
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Can someone explain how this would work? When I work a job and they withhold money from my check, they then pay that withheld money along with the matching taxes paid by the business directly to the federal government, don't they? Would the state just order the businesses to send the money to them instead? If my tax dollars don't get sent to the fed, wouldn't the IRS still come after me to pay them?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for it. I just don't understand the mechanics of how it would work.
Can someone explain how this would work?
I think to pull this off California would need to enact some sort of large state tax and then offer tax rebates. Then California could capture the money before it's sent to the fed.
Just declare that jobs within the state no longer collect it, and provide a hotline to identify employers who don't comply. It's not like the IRS has the people to manage federal enforcement.
Damn. Sounds exactly like a way to boost small businesses profits as they steal taxes they won't pay. This type of policy can't be left to the businesses and a phone line. Just saying. It needs to be collected by the state imo. Placed into state Medicaid, Medicare, or a new universal healthcare plan for California.
Sounds good to me. My main point was that a state could do it.
One way would be the actual taxes paid on state, county, and municipal employee salaries. That's going to represent a large source of federal taxes that the state could divert. I'm sure there are other taxes paid by the state that could be withheld.
None of them have the balls to actually do any of this. This is just Gavin trying to score points for 2028, the slimeball.
👆You don’t interview Charlie Kirk on the first episode of your podcast and think withholding federal taxes is a serious idea.
It's a serious idea if you have an army to fight the federal government.
California doesn't.
Or you get the attention of centrists that appreciate and vote for tough guys, and then act like a tough guy?
They can't stop the fed from collecting taxes on individuals or businesses. State agencies, maybe, but even then. Individuals get taxed by the fed.
They could probably pass a law that companies within California pay taxes to the fed through an escrow account held by the state, pass the data through so if nothing crazy happens, it doesn't really affect anybody, and get enough companies to comply that Trump would back down.
The courts would eventually decide whether or not it was legal, but by then Trump will have moved off to another target to performatively attack while pretending to help people who aren't multi-millionaires while siphoning their money instead.
SCOTUS would suddenly love the supremacy clause.