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[–] ZombieMantis 54 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Blue states need to start up their own shadow government, fund their own shit.

[–] DarkFuture 40 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Californian here.

We should stop paying federal taxes.

We have a ton of money, a ton of military installations, and 1 in 8 Americans IS a Californian. Washington and Oregon join us, and we'd be in even better shape. Canada can get in on the action too.

A felon rapist traitor and his traitor party is making our Constitution irrelevant. Time to start looking out for ourselves.

[–] mojofrododojo 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

WA state here - it's ridiculous that I have to subsidize chuds in Mississippi and Louisiana when they won't even give their citizens human rights. they're all about fiscal responsibility until it comes to paying their own fucking bills.

edit: love the chudvotes, do we have some cranky MS and LA types? pay your fucking bills jerkfaces. fuck, half your budgets come from federal funds we pour more into.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Federal taxes don't actually work that way. The federal government prints its own money. All taxes effectively go into a giant shredder and are unrelated to spending.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don’t even know where to begin correcting such an insane statement. Why do you think k taxes are collected if it just gets shredded? Sadistic pleasure?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

He makes a good point, it's just to balance the inflation. Take the tax money to offset the federal reserve printing swathes of money to fund government endeavors.

[–] Maggoty 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a real theory. From what I understand though the shredder is a thought experiment, not meant to be taken seriously. They do acknowledge that you have to receive money to spend money. they just think of it like a balancing act instead of a 1 to 1 relationship.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You don't need to receive money to spend money if you print money. The purpose of taxation is to reduce the monetary supply.