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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 01:55 AM Feb 2017

California Will Get Help When It "Coughs Up" Undocumented Workers & Fraudulent Voters.

I believe Trump will just ignore the request because of California's stance on undocumented workers plus that fact he got his ass whipped in that state. We have a childish crazy sociopath inflicted on us by Trump deplorables.

THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RESPONSE ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE LETTER WAS RECEIVED. ANYTHING LESS IS CRIMINAL.

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roamer65

(36,745 posts)
1. Maybe Sacramento needs to talk with Beijing.
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 02:05 AM
Feb 2017

I think the Chinese would be more than willing to provide adequate financial support if needed.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,862 posts)
3. All California really need do is to stop sending federal taxes they've collected off to Washington.
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 02:15 AM
Feb 2017

They'll be far ahead if that's all they do.

Liberty Belle

(9,535 posts)
5. California does not collect federal taxes.
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 02:30 AM
Feb 2017

Taxpayers pay federal taxes directly to the federal government, so unless you got millions of individuals to not pay taxes and risk having the IRS crackdown with hefty penalties or seizure of assets, I don't see how that can happen.

I wonder though, could California find new markets for its' farmers produce and just refuse to sell food to those red states, unless Trump loosens up the purse strings for California?

I like the idea of Twitter cutting off Trump for his racist and misogynistic and bullying remarks, but not sure what legal basis there would be for holding his Twitter account hostage if he won't pay California.

There may be other ideas some have here. The motion picture industry has clout....anything they can do? Can the state impose a fee on motion pictures shown outside of CA to help collect revenues?

We need some outside the box thinking here.

longship

(40,416 posts)
6. I like the way you think.
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 03:12 AM
Feb 2017

The situation certainly suggests that a creative solution may be necessary.

But what might that be?


calimary

(81,323 posts)
9. And California is a donor state. Our federal taxes prop up a lot of red states.
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 04:56 AM
Feb 2017

Of every dollar we sent to Washington DC, we get back 78 cents.

And all the while, as they take our money, they laugh at us and deride us and sneer that our votes are all illegal. They call us "libtards" and "the land of fruits and nuts and flakes" - and worse. Some of them have declared that our drought is a curse from God as punishment for gays. They speak about "San Francisco values" as a veiled derogatory reference to the gay community (the same as they often use "New York values" as an anti-Semitic putdown) and other such very deliberate and pointed insults. That shit has gone on for a LONG time. FAR too long, if you ask this Californian.

There's a proposal called "Calexit" now circulating - about California seceding from the union. Stuff like this makes me start thinking more favorably about the idea. How 'bout we KEEP our money, then? FUCK 'EM! Could the time be fast approaching in which they have to learn to limp along without us?

JI7

(89,252 posts)
7. so the piece of shit who doesn't pay taxes will deny the state that DOES pay taxes their OWN
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 03:18 AM
Feb 2017

money since california pays more than they get back .

AllaN01Bear

(18,268 posts)
8. too bad when we loose our farmers irrigation water this summer and our veggies and other ag dry up
Mon Feb 13, 2017, 04:04 AM
Feb 2017

show us your income taxes , sir.

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