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  • SippyCup@lemmy.ml
    17·
    9 days ago

    States hold their own elections. He can’t cancel them.

    If he tries, the civic contract is dead. No more taxes. No more peaceful protests.

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      9 days ago

      No more taxes.

      I’ve been thinking about this as the orange idiot keeps punishing states he doesn’t like.

      We need to rework taxes so that states take federal income tax and hold it in escrow or something so that this kind of shit can’t happen anymore.

      And if red states get pissy and start withholding their contributions over gay marriage or something, well, they’re mostly dead weight anyway.

      • aesthelete@lemmy.world
        8·
        9 days ago

        And if red states get pissy and start withholding their contributions over gay marriage or something, well, they’re mostly dead weight anyway.

        Then good actually, because they’ll starve the beast as well. At this point, a well-funded federal government is a curse.