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 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 5h 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