It doesn't work like that unfortunately. Most of the blue state funding is paid out of employer based systems from those blue states, not some centralized system.
It does work like that fortunately. A state can pass a law that makes it illegal for an employer to withold income for taxes that originates from outside the state. Hypothetically, you can pass that law in a single afternoon.
But it doesn't work like that today. It would require passing legislation, and if that's our bar then almost anything is possible.
Will they do it? No. No they will not.
So it's effectively the same as that law not being on the books. Which it is not currently, and likely has no hope of ever getting in them.
Edit: Getting downvoted for saying the way things are are the way things are? I don't understand.
Could things be changed? Yes.
Until they get a bill out there and it has majority support to pass and employers implement it, hoping it works any differently than it does today is pure fantasy. That's all I mean. We can be hopeful that something like this could happen, but let's not delude ourselves into assuming the legislators of California and other blue states are going to save us. They will not. They've shown the tendency to do the exact opposite really, which is roll over and let Fascism take hold.
That's how laws work though. Every law on the books was legislation that passed. We can make new laws, and we can remove current laws. There is nothing stopping states from passing laws that make that automatic federal tax withholding illegal. It would probably get litigated up to the supreme court, but ultimately, the state can pass laws today.
It would probably get litigated up to the supreme court
Exactly why it won’t work. The Federal Government would sue immediately and any reasonable Judge would issue an injunction based on the Supremacy Clause. It probably would go all the way to the Supreme Court, but it would never be allowed to take effect in the first place.
Read the tax guide sent to employers. It does say that they have to withold federal taxes, but there is no law saying that they have to send that money to the feds. So, a state law that says federal withholding need to be sent to the state who will then disburse them on the employer's behalf fits within the framework of the federal law.
Just to give a vignette for how deep in the cult MAGA is, people were *literally dying in a hospital bed denying the existence of COVID. The only problem there is that COVID didn't get more of them. These people are no longer tethered to our shared reality, and on one hand it's sad but on the other it's extremely dangerous for them to decide anything other than which pair of pants they want to wear that day.
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Blue states should cut funding to the feds then. Blue has been propping up those red shit holes for long enough.
It doesn't work like that unfortunately. Most of the blue state funding is paid out of employer based systems from those blue states, not some centralized system.
It does work like that fortunately. A state can pass a law that makes it illegal for an employer to withold income for taxes that originates from outside the state. Hypothetically, you can pass that law in a single afternoon.
But it doesn't work like that today. It would require passing legislation, and if that's our bar then almost anything is possible.
Will they do it? No. No they will not.
So it's effectively the same as that law not being on the books. Which it is not currently, and likely has no hope of ever getting in them.
Edit: Getting downvoted for saying the way things are are the way things are? I don't understand.
Could things be changed? Yes.
Until they get a bill out there and it has majority support to pass and employers implement it, hoping it works any differently than it does today is pure fantasy. That's all I mean. We can be hopeful that something like this could happen, but let's not delude ourselves into assuming the legislators of California and other blue states are going to save us. They will not. They've shown the tendency to do the exact opposite really, which is roll over and let Fascism take hold.
That's how laws work though. Every law on the books was legislation that passed. We can make new laws, and we can remove current laws. There is nothing stopping states from passing laws that make that automatic federal tax withholding illegal. It would probably get litigated up to the supreme court, but ultimately, the state can pass laws today.
Exactly why it won’t work. The Federal Government would sue immediately and any reasonable Judge would issue an injunction based on the Supremacy Clause. It probably would go all the way to the Supreme Court, but it would never be allowed to take effect in the first place.
Read the tax guide sent to employers. It does say that they have to withold federal taxes, but there is no law saying that they have to send that money to the feds. So, a state law that says federal withholding need to be sent to the state who will then disburse them on the employer's behalf fits within the framework of the federal law.
Kentucky and Mitch Mcconnell
Time states to with hold federal taxes
I hope the Blue States, such as mine, hold firm and don't give in.
Cool, so we can stop paying federal taxes to his fascist regime? Because why should we keep propping up this Russia-loving government? FUCK EM!
We threw tea in the ocean for less tax… I sure as hell am sick of paying 30-40% of my income to people who barely pay shit!
Time to boycott TAXES until this fascist government is gone!
So petty. I wonder how his voters in those states feel. I hope they're tired of winning.
Just to give a vignette for how deep in the cult MAGA is, people were *literally dying in a hospital bed denying the existence of COVID. The only problem there is that COVID didn't get more of them. These people are no longer tethered to our shared reality, and on one hand it's sad but on the other it's extremely dangerous for them to decide anything other than which pair of pants they want to wear that day.
They already fucked up hats so maybe don't let them decide on pants either.
They'd set their own house on fire, just to own the libs.
Sounds like 16 lawsuits
Ah, a president for the people of his country no matter how they voted /s
What about the red states that also didn't vote for him but the counts got changed in their machines?
They need to demand a hand recount.
THAT'S FASCIST