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.
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.
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
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.
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.
A talented artist should combine Zohran Mamdani's campaign photo and the movie posters for "Conan the Destroyer" and "You Don't Mess with the Zohan" to produce a "Zohran the Destroyer" meme image.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.