I'd love to see NYC set up a voluntary escrow account for federal taxes.
You don't have to pay shit till taxes are due, have NYC sit on their withholdings and trump won't be able to build any ballrooms.
The problem is employers take taxes directly out of paychecks and send directly to the federal government.
Hilarious watching these idiots call literally everything they don't like "communism".
The billionaires don’t want you to know this but you pay taxes to the states your business is located in. You don’t just “leave” because taxes. The businesses these billionaires own in New York are still subject to taxes.
What’s crazy is the right has “donated” more money to supporting cuomo than Mamdani would have even taxed them.
Businesses already set up headquarters in Delaware for tax reasons. They're not going to leave New York City, one of biggest markets on Earth. This argument from conservatives was always stupid.
My Trump-addled father is now declaring that Wall St is going to relocate to Texas because of Mamdani's victory. 😐
Cool so the stock market will collapse when their power goes out and the servers go out!
Yeah but there is no quid pro quo with Mamdani. As far as I know...
Good thing it is legal for Trump and only Trump to meddle in elections. Yay.
djt wouldn't be able to name the communist countries in the world to save his life. It is a very anti-American behavior to label half of Americans as enemies. The US totally includes an opposition party. Idiot still doesn't understand what a democracy is and how to stay in his lane.
China and Cuba, that's the only places they ever mention if they do.
Iran/DPRK
No way, he'd way over estimate
Sweden The UK Venezuela Colombia New Zealand France Etc
The second act begins.
This is impeachable ... par fot the course with Trump and MAGA. So sick of injustice.
Communism is a failure that we cannot allow to prosper!
Capitalism is also a failure. Choose one.
Mamdani is not a communist, but a socialist. There's a difference, and even though you can apparently be the President without knowing that, it's worth being clear about it.
I'm fairly certain Gates9 just forgot the /s.
If people can’t recognize obvious sarcasm, that’s their problem.
its hard to tell nowadays.
Trump has a lot of property in New York.
Sure would be a shame if he finally saw some consequences and lost a few dozen of them.
Does the cityhave the right to seize property or is that the state that would have that authority? I suspect it's at the state level.
sure why not.
Other states should protest by withholding taxes, as well. United, yes?
That's not really how it works - there's no one big sack of cash that gets handed over by the state, individual businesses (and people) pay their taxes to the IRS directly, and then separately to the state tax agencies (obvs leaving out some of the draconian nuance here). States don't have a practical method of withholding taxes short of going to every business and demanding they stop paying the feds. While hypothetically possible at some point, it's not in the short term feasible.
There is a big sack of cash that gets handed over by the state: the federal payroll taxes for all the state government employees.
In comparison to all federal taxes payed out by people within a state, that's a pretty miniscule sack of cash. The government is among the largest employers in every state true, but their payroll contributions aren't anything compared to the whole and they're paltry compared to things like business-derived tax revenue. States could withhold them, yes, but it wouldn't do much if they did.
I disagree. I think having everyone send their federal taxes to a state entity for leverage purposes would be an interesting development. The individual is protected, and the state holds the bag.
I'm confused, sorry: what are you disagreeing with?
How would the individual be protected from the IRS if they are penalized by the IRS for non-payment of taxes. Just because you sent a check to some state entity doesn’t mean those federal taxes have been paid, and that state entity likely wouldn’t have the authority or resources to protect you from the IRS.
It would be kind of like sending your mortgage payment to your lawyer when you have a dispute with your bank. You still owe that money to the bank, and they can take action for non-payment.
Damn, looks like Trump shouldn't have slasher the IRS budget and fired all their auditors.
Some jurisdictions allow escrow payment when in a legal conflict, in which case you actually might be sending money to your lawyer instead
... Probably doesn't apply for US taxes, but it's a thing
It would be kind of like sending your mortgage payment to your lawyer when you have a dispute with your bank. You still owe that money to the bank, and they can take action for non-payment.
Well, kinda. But in this example, you've put the money in escrow, which gives you protection while everything plays out in court
But you as an individual won’t be suing the IRS so escrow makes no sense in this case.
Yes, but you've also separated the money and put it under the care of a third party. And presumably, you'd do this as a matter of state law
When the IRS comes knocking, you can say "sure thing, your money is over there, as according to local laws". The IRS can then sue you, but you followed the law and set the money aside - clearly you weren't attempting to avoid paying
Which realistically means the federal government needs to sue the state, either to overturn the state law or collect all the money
Communism vs the dictator l
lol NY doesn’t need “his” funds. Trump needs NY funds though.
Idk man, I see a lot of red caps at a certain party's rallies
red = obvious communist symbolism
I think those caps even say "make america great again" which obviously sounds like a communist slogan
I'd say we arrest these filthy communists 😏
I really can’t think of higher praise.
At this point there's little reason for blue states to remain. The US federal government is too far gone to fix and the kinds of ass wipe Democrats who would get elected certainly are going to do anything like expanding the Supreme Court or her tailing the power of the president so we might as well start from scratch
As somebody originally from New York State, I firmly believe that we could render the Federal government irrelevant simply through economic means alone
Actually, given how America works the only thing that would be necessary to completely destroy the federal government would be to have 40 senators, easily achievable, refuse to pass a budget. As we've seen without a budget everything grinds to a halt and eventually the federal workers are going to leave for other jobs. This might have already happened by sharing competence and the need to suppress the Epstein files but you could do it intentionally if you so desired
Your move, orange boy.
Whenever these fucks try and paint Americans as terrorists and threaten to cut off anything they create monsters they can't control. Anyone he attacks becomes wildly popular and almost assures them victory. Especially if he has his thugs come rough them up.
Fuck you cancer. You take far too many good people while skipping this piece of shit.
What if trump is actually a secret good person and is aware of his meirdas touch and is actually trying to make the world a better place by attacking the people trying to make it better, therefore assuring their victory.
I mean he obviously isn't, but it's a nice thought.
How the fuck...
When the ever loving fuck are people going to wake up and remember their government/civics lessons??
Those teach how things are supposed to work, not what to do when things don't work as they should. I'm willing to wager no government willingly teaches people how to coerce it into working for them, but at least America definitely doesn't.
I wanna see Mam win!!
He won
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