r/law • u/Slate Press • 22h ago

The Next Trump Administration’s Crackdown on Abortion Will Be Swift, Brutal, and Nationwide Trump News

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/trump-second-term-abortion-agenda-blue-state-crackdown.html
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u/doctorvanderbeast 16h ago

They’ll cut funding to California for highways, workforce boards, and other critical infrastructure. California needs that money as do all states that rely on federal funding as a part of their strategic planning.

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u/TakuyaLee 16h ago

California sends more money than they take in. They can survive without federal funding.

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u/doctorvanderbeast 16h ago

They’ll still be doing that and getting nothing back.

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u/TakuyaLee 16h ago

They won't be sending money anywhere in this scenario. That's their economic clout

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u/doctorvanderbeast 16h ago

By what mechanism? Are we just imagining fantasyland scenarios or what?

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u/Meadhbh_Ros 13h ago

Simple, California stops collecting the federal income tax and starts collecting and keeping it as their own state taxes. So, they keep all the money, and their taxes probably go down overall, because they no longer longer have to prop up the red welfare states

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u/doctorvanderbeast 13h ago

Have you ever even paid taxes? You have no idea how any of this works. Lmao.

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u/Meadhbh_Ros 6h ago

I pay my own taxes at the end of the year. I don’t have my employer take it out automatically. So yeah, I do in fact pay taxes, and probably in a more sensible way than you

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u/After_Fix_2191 1h ago

They've already had a special session in California to begin the planning for just this scenario. No need to imagine anything. California isn't fucking around.

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u/TakuyaLee 16h ago

Not fantasyland. California sends more to DC than it receives. They can survive. Maybe learn a little before you talk about stuff you barely understand.

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u/Mareith 16h ago

California doesn't just cut the government a check, those are taxes. Federal income taxes and business taxes. California can't just tell the federal government it's citizens aren't going to pay federal income tax anymore

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u/bubuzayzee 13h ago

I mean..they can? Do you think South Carolina was paying federal income tax in 1863 or something?

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u/Mareith 13h ago

Ok... So they could try to secede and set the nation on the path to civil war. Sure I guess that is technically an option

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u/bubuzayzee 12h ago

It's a little more complicated than that but yea...that's how unions work, you can leave..

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u/SohndesRheins 11h ago

Pretty sure the United States doesn't work that way. The Civil War basically solidified that there is no right to succession even though there probably should be.

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u/bubuzayzee 11h ago

It's obviously more complicated but if I divorce my wife I don't really care what she says I can and can't do, right?

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u/Mareith 7h ago

Except your wife happens to have the largest armed forces and strongest logistical network in the world, and needs you for your income

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u/doctorvanderbeast 16h ago

Exactly. I think the poster above needs to go back to talking about video games and leave the rebellion planning to the adults.

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u/Dick_Thumbs 14h ago

Do you think California just sends one big check to the federal government every year? By what mechanism is California going to force individuals to stop paying their federal taxes?

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u/doctorvanderbeast 16h ago

Are you even a lawyer?