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I may be wrong, but isn't NYC more of a money generator than it's a receiver? If that's so, I don't see how NYC would suffer, but it would widen the divide between such areas and poor dotational ones, making their people possible maga recruits.
Most blue areas produce money, most red areas (excluding Texas I think) are leeches.
T*xas very much does too, despite how much they like to act big and bad and independent.
I man they do generate a lot more money than most red states. Being able to admit that doesn't detract anything from the overall point.
Yeah but we're talking about net here. Most blue states are net producers, most red states are net leechers. Texas might not be as big of a leech as some others, but it's still a leech.
Texas would be but they reject some federal funds they'd be entitled to.
I don't know what T*xas is. Is that like Voldemort?
YeeHaw exports look especially bad right now.
There is still a system in place where states contribute their federal taxes before that revenue is used for whatever we have budgeted. A state doesn't take "their share" first, and states depend on federal funding for a lot of projects and services.
That said, a state with large surpluses can probably write policies to use their state taxes to pay for federal programs that people want to keep, but that's a snarled-up and anti-american system, the taxes are supposed to be used for the people, not be used like a cudgel to enforce political partisanship. There would be a lot of courts who would challenge this, which still might go in Trump's favor because of his corruption of the judicial branch, but that's a LOT of work and expense for something that isn't going to actually get the administration anything but ire from the citizens of one of the ~~country's~~ world's largest, most prominent cities.
Largely, this is as usual, a massive pile of bullshit meant to fit into a right-wing news site's headline ticker, because people largely don't read stories, they just read headlines and don't question it. This kind of rhetoric has always been about making his most powerful asset, his ludicrously stupid and armed and fanatical base feel like he's still big strong daddy choking everyone.
i think people are still expected to pay federal taxes. even if trump blocked funds.
Like King George did? How did that work out?
I'm not sure how all the recent tax changes will effect this either.