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Trump Promised to Eliminate Funding to Schools That Don’t Nix DEI Work—But Half of States Aren’t Complying
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Also Epstein
I'm assuming many are red states, so...
Release the Epstein files
Donnie is going through all his greatest hits trying to deflect that he's a fucking pedophile. Where are the files?
Why hasn't he adolfed himself yet? Doesn't this chomo know that everyone knows he raped children?
Lock him up! Let justice prevail!
Republicans know, that's part of why he has so much support.
I know my state barely uses the federal funds. Its less than 10% of their budget. So they're not complying.
It's mostly the Republican lead states that use it. It's funny how the biggest federal welfare queens are all the supposedly fiscally responsible Republicans while the Democrats meanwhile actually run balanced budgets and aren't reliant on federal bailouts.
It's the same everywhere. Conservatives brag loudly about responsibility of all kinds, but in practice they never act responsibly nor take responsibility for anything. Meanwhile those who don't preach practise. Words for the right wing are just cudgels.
It’s gonna be fucking great when all the blue states that contribute disproportionately to the federal budget and national economy start saying “no” when the Feds try to get them to pay up. More than a few red states are gonna straight up collapse.
But states don't directly pay the federal government.
Right now. Frankly speaking it wouldn't take too much effort to basically make folks specifically businesses pay federal taxes through the state. Create a free tax system for individual citizens and put a 25% tax on businesses that don't use it, then it's just a matter of fucking with IRS agents until they give up.
I assume they are doing this because states can't opt out essentially, but in the end Trump gets to say he cut the funding to all those states that dont support his bigotry and his supporters call it a win.
States should find out the amount and keep that amount from being paid to the federal government and then disperse it themselves.
Unfortunately states don't directly pay the federal government, their citizens do via their federal taxes. The state would need to figure out some way to get each person and business within their borders to reduce their federal filing and then somehow shield them from the IRS.
Yeah it would all be a mess. It would end in war and no one wants that is the truth. Because the only way it would work out is if the states were able to receed from the union. Which the U.S. would never allow. It would implode the country
The problem is ultimately the civil war. The US was originally envisioned as something much closer to the EU. Each State was effectively an autonomous country with the federal government setting some simple common ground rules and facilitating inter-state trade. That worked right up until the states could no longer agree on those ground rules which ultimately led to the civil war. Following that rather than going back to what existed before or reevaluating the fundamental design of things they instead just attempted to paper over things by increasing the federal government's power while slightly reducing each state's power, but without addressing problematic leftovers of the previous system like the senate or the electoral college.
The US government makes sense as a very loose confederation of countries. It doesn't make sense as a country in its own right. Too much of the federal government is designed to grant power to states governments at the expense of the public's right to democracy.
The reality is that following the end of the civil war they should have gone back to the drawing board and re-architected the federal government rather than attempting to go back to business as usual.
Yeah, I always wonder when people were bullshitting about Texas leaving the union how they expect they would factor in the National debt. Like sure you can leave if you if pay $100,000+ per person who lives in your state, and we remove all our assets and draw up trade deals that leave you with no ability to acquire anything. I mean hell, at least California could trade with Canada, Mexico, and the EU. Texas was anti Mexico, a far stretch from Canada but wouldn't be able to ship through the U.S. likely, and would get worse trade deals with the EU do to the policies they were fighting for.
They don't trust China, so their only possible ally would have been Russia, which the U.S. wouldn't allow Russia to be that close, or the best case scenario is Texas got the Cuba treatment, worse case would be hard to imagine.
The US was democracy 1.0 up until the civil war when it became democracy 1.1. The rest of the world meanwhile has moved on to democracy 2.0+ that fixed a lot of the fundamental problems that the US inherited from feudalism. We've never really fixed any of the fundamental problems with the US government because everyone is too afraid to make significant changes. We would literally have to throw the constitution away and start with a new one, and nobody trusts anyone to do that these days. So we're left to hobble along while the country slowly tears itself to pieces.
Any one state leaving is similar to what happened with Brexit but significantly worse. It would leave that state in a significantly worse position in all respects than it was previously. The only way to make it work would be to literally dissolve the federal government and reform it as something new, but first you'd need to find enough states willing to do that and who could agree on the form that new country should take.
Your state might only use that, but schools in larger cities are often reliant on Title I and IDEA funding, sometimes making up >40% of their funding pools.
“Me kill DEI & all cultural advances from past 60 years!!!”
Maybe the next Democratic President should Eliminate money from anyone that violates the laws just to appease Trump.
I America survives this mess.
America’s already dead. What we’re seeing is the maggots devouring the corpse.
We are well on our way to Techno Fascism. All the richest think the public is stupid and that government should be run like a company with a founder/CEO. Balkanization of states is next probably I'd guess. It's why all of a sudden you see so many R congress members saying they are running for governor. They are being drawn to where they'll have power.
the public IS stupid..the sheer fact that I hear people repeating corporations sayings, phrases, talking about ads in a positive light, promoting products that are inherently shit.don't forget lining up for hours or days to buy some crap..yeah, they are stupid. people enjoy the abuse for some dumb reason.
MAGAts & oligarchs
Good. We need some fucking solidarity here.