I think that’s what we call succession. Okay. We good with that. We got the $ and 5th largest global economy in CA. How’s S. Carolina’s economy by comparison?
New Jersey consistently in the top 5 for paying the most in federal income tax. and we only get back .75 cents on the dollar that we contribute each year. That money could go a long way kept in state.
Wow. California’s contribution to federal income and Social Security and Medicare are in the billions which goes towards red states in Social Security/Medicare. Mexican immigrants contribute to those services as well working in their agriculture. Be careful Graham…Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus
Right? "We'll cut off the money you already give to us first, and you won't like it at all!" OK, we'll just keep it all for ourselves then, and also not comply with the orange man's rules.
Doesn’t work like that unfortunately. It’s going to be really hard to get businesses to comply with any state laws which direct them to not send income and corporate taxes to the IRS. Also, most people on W-2s have their taxes withheld from their paycheck.
I figured it's a pipe dream, but there must be ways we can make a show of resistance. In my state, our new governor-elect was AG during TFG's first round. He and our newly elected AG spent the last year reading Project 2025 line by line and have law suits ready to file now. We will be suing. A lot.
We did. We passed a new bond measure to help with wildfires, flooding etc. but what people don’t realize is that most wildfires are federal owned lands.
NY can keep our coins to continue to be the abortion sanctuary state for most of the Southeast…and PA. Getting your pregnant people here and safely lodging them is an enormous undertaking, let alone finding funds for their procedures.
… and should fund it by redirecting some of the taxes normally be paid to the fed. Trump’s threat to withhold wildfire funding should be taken absolutely seriously.
He knows perfectly well. But the people he's performing for think blue states are spending their money on giving illegal immigrants housing, cars, & phones, lol.
Besides having to listen to Trump for the past 10 Ducking years….we’ve had to listen to Lindsey’s nonsense. I’m so done with these performance artists.
Maybe the states with those cities in them should cut off all their money to the government, then. They are mostly blue states and support the red states.
Anyone ask Lindsey what if the rest of the world sanctions America? Can't bully China/Russia/India. @rwlatstetter.bsky.social @nancyhweaver.bsky.social @capatosta122.bsky.social @acabchick.bsky.social @asterling.bsky.social @drlearnalot.bsky.social @catsgame.bsky.social @john62.bsky.social
@lindseygraham.bsky.social Listen Ladybug ... California will just keep ALL of its tax money ... won't send a dollar to Washington. We can survive without you. Can you survive without us?
We here in New York City may just forgot pay your rent in South Carolina next month. Now shit up before we take away your toys and make you eat only broccoli for dinner.
That's what the corrupt Texas GOP already did with the privatising of the electric grid. Speaking as a survivor of the Winter of '21 Grid Failure. Abbott's Grid Debaucle. The murder of those who died because of GOP grift and backhand payments.
Maybe the population from the states with sanctuary cities stop paying their taxes. If CA and NY stopped paying in, the states like KY and MS won't go bankrupt.
Funny those are the states funding this country Lindsey better watch his words blue states really don't have anything to lose and all the money to gain.
He's been in politics so long and amassed so much wealth he forgot who he works for who continue to struggle economically. I don't understand why they keep voting for this clown.
Cool. We in California, the 4th largest economy in the world will keep our money. Next time one of your poor red states needs a handout open your checkbook.
But you cannot, Miss Lindsey, and remember, blue states fund under-performing red states regularly. So think about what dribbles out of your trump-intimate mouth.
California has the 5th largest economy ON THE PLANET. Must be doing something right. Sanctuary cities don't want local law enforcement to do the Fed's job; states' rights, anyone?
Lindsey, I have as much power to cut off fruits and vegetables to SC as you do to cut off money to California. The good news..it doesn’t appear you will miss them much anyway.
Not anyone who isn’t a fascist listens to the traitorous little swine. BTW, Lindsey, where are your pearls? Can’t be seen in public with clutching them, honey.
His long career of being someone who spoke his mind and worked across the aisle means zip. His legacy in history will be the fact that he lost his spine and lost every value he ever had. John McCain is weeping for his friend.
Hey, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social ... The fed got $472,027,235 in 2019 from Californians. If trump is withholding funds from us, our tax money should remain here and be used to fund the programs that the orange fascist refuses to fund.
thank you california for the proactive stance. going to encourage Maryland's governor to follow that strategy too. time to prepare was 100 years ago, but i'll take now, please.
I was once glad that all these old racist, lying con-artist frauds were going to all be extinct in the next 10 years. Now I'm worried that the next gen of the maga cultists are going to be much, much worse.
South Carolina is one of the most needy states, receiving $15 billion in fiscal year 2024-25 from the federal government. What’s this clown doing for South Carolina?
I’m tired of financing their fuckery. Their votes give us the likes of MTG, Gaetz, Jesus Johnson, Miss Lindsay AND take our money? Some huge changes need to be made to that bullshit system.
It’s time they pull themselves up by those bootstraps they’re always talking about and get out of our wallets. I’m sick of them dragging the rest of us down. Time for them to fund themselves and live under their idiotic laws.
Hmmm. I never thought of that. How much money would stop if say, California refused to pay as compared to a state like Kentucky that probably takes more from the government coffers then they pay in.
I’ve thought about that, but how do states do that? They aren’t an intermediary bw tax payers and the federal govt, so how could that actually be done? Tell citizens/businesses to stop paying their federal taxes?
You have a point. But what happens if the government under Trump becomes so punitive, oppressive and intrusive a blue state, as an example, can't function? If each state is sovereign how much pressure can a state or group of states put on the federal government to stop the abuse? I don't know.
Trump is probably going to decimate the size of IRS, so blue states should probably let him do that before they encourage their citizens to stop/reduce/whatever their federal tax payments.
And Colorado, too. That map popped back into head this morning and I suddenly thought that all the blue states are subsiding the lives of the people in the red states as they vilify the Democrats and the Liberals. We're helping carry the Magas! Soon, my brain is going to explode.
except that Federal taxes are being paid by you and me and businesses directly to IRS - so there is no way to " stop paying" - but Federal subsidies and programs sure could be changed by Congress
This is exactly what I want to see happen; every blue state should find a way to do this. Sanctuary is just the first of many excuses that will be made in order to justify using our money against us.
IT doesn't work that way -- the money going to IRS/Fed Gov is from individual and business tax returns. Our problem is with how Congress doles out funds which come under thousands of programs nowadays
I have to believe the Blue Governors are considering any option available to establish funds, even from tax revenue, to support their state. Trump will not subsidize law enforcement, emergencies, welfare, etc so keep the money in the states. Trump doesn’t respect rules, laws, norms. Why should we?
Okay. Fine by us. California’s a net donor state to the Treasury and has been for a long time. Can we have our money back though? (I’m kidding. These people and their limited understanding of economics just kills me).
Dear cognitively challenged, do you have any idea what happens if the blue states stop paying their share. The government will collapse in a short space of time. Hell, just take California out of the equation, and you are screwed.
@senlindseygraham.bsky.social And we blue states that fund your red states should cut all our federal taxes off! STFU Lindsey and come out of the closet!
Those states that have sanctuary cities are the profit engines of the federal government. Red states are the recipients of federal money. He should think about what he is saying and the possible consequences.
That goes both ways. Blue states pay the most into fed funds and we can stop doing that. California pays 230 billion in federal taxes but If we keep that in house, we’d be golden. They need us more than we need them.
Graham used to be a moderate conservative who didn’t seem afraid to cross the aisle for important legislation, but he turned into MAGA Barbi. Putin must have video of Graham with an underage boy.
It should be that California, the 4th largest economy in the world now, should cut off YOUR money Lil Lindsey! South Carolina & all but 1 or 2 Red states takes more money then they send in. You're the one's they need to CUT OFF, pull yourself up by your bootstraps honey!
I can’t wait for all these clowns to die already… healthcare has cliffed and with that much hate in their hearts they can’t be fuelled by it forever right?
CA. NY, WA and MA need to come together and agree not to send any more free money to these loser southern red states. Period. They want that money? Come and take it out of my cold, dead hands.
Lil Lindsey you don’t scare us. Trying to bully but no one takes you seriously. Go grab your pearls and go back to what you do best. Licking crusty ole orange dumpster fire
The US probably gets more money from sanctuary cities than it pays to them. The sanctuary cities should cut off the money they funnel into trumplandic red states and use it to host immigrants.
Its amazing that the people in these red states have had Republicans in charge for decades and they're the poorest states in the union. Last in almost every metric. You would think these people would notice a correlation. But thats the great trick they've played, its the dems fault somehow lol
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South Carolina is a welfare state.
I think California is already thinking about it
If Trump is going to play games, California can too.
It's incredibly difficult to unseat an autocrat.
2. DC's bank account: $0.00
Seriously don't do it.
Don't.
I warned you.
Lindsey
We’ll be doing the same, of course.
You’re gonna end up with the same goddamn result Wipe out the blue state libs and you wipe out your own economy.
Because the rich folk aren’t paying taxes, remember?
You can’t …. Yaknow. … dust for vomit.
Sit down.
I hope y'all preparing for this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state
Imagine if Biden would have withheld funds from the red states ...
Cal Matters is a solid place for CA issues.
https://bsky.app/profile/calmatters.org
It’s pretty crazy we have absolutely no idea what is going to happen now. Next year? Fives years? I’m clueless.
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There is no telling how many spy video tapes Trump has of Graham doing unsavory things in a Trump resort hotel room.
Confession/Projection
https://metro.co.uk/video/donald-trump-talks-spy-cameras-hotel-rooms-1390555/
How about California cuts all of our funding for your welfare states? Clean up your backyard, stay the fuck out of ours.
Who’s WE?
Lindsey is looking more & more like an aggrieved Beverly Hills mother-in-law every day.
He must have just gotten off the boat to do that interview