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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day agoThat’s all
redstates.
From California to Mississippi, the anti-tax era got everybody. Now states don’t have domestic revenue to pay for shit, so they have to go through the Feds for everything.
Ironic, in a way, since the core of anti-tax Republicanism was supposed to be about shrinking the size of government. But here we are, beholden to whichever idiot or asshole happens to be running the executive branch at a given moment
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Remind me again why California needs the federal government as opposed to the other way around?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Broadly speaking? For the same reason every other state does. Continental unity opens up trade and travel, exploits economies of scale, and simplifies the legal system for interstate business and for civil rights purposes.
Specifically? Because federal coordination helps manage natural disasters (like wildfires) and centralize big programs life Medicare/SS and secures national defense (which California profits from handsomely).
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
They declared theyre not foing to be helping us with disasters, though. So what the fuck is the point?
Just so they can invade our cities and kidnap our neighbors to die in the florida swamp?
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Frankly, Cali, Oregon, and Washington ought to form a Western Coast Pact, where if one of them gets unfair treatment from the feds, they all lock down their ports. Trump’s tartif tax on Americans, plus shipping delays and extra shipping costs would make the general public pretty mad at the situation. Hypothetically, companies can (they won’t) absorb tariff costs, but supply line interruptions are immediate total chaos, and can have knock-on effects for decades
Kanda@reddthat.com 1 day ago
The California will rise
again!jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I don’t normally downvote. Looks like someone else already did that. So I don’t have to.
Geodad@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They don’t. If California stopped sending taxes to DC, the rest of the country would be fucked.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
No, parts woukd be fine. New york, hawaii, alaska.
Geodad@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Hawaii would be fucked in the short term. They require so much from the mainland right now.
Alaska, yes.
New York, ehh? Would they though?
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Good thing we’ve got newsom to stand up for us. 👍🏻
Geodad@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
That guy is just as crooked as Trump.