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2017-01-29 Government
California Could Cut Off Feds In Response To Trump Threats
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Posted by Fred 2017-01-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Fake news...wishful thinking on behalf of some forlorn lefty writer.
Posted by Tennessee 2017-01-29 01:48||   2017-01-29 01:48|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm going to guess that given how important CA's electoral votes are to Dems, there are way more dollars flowing from the Feds to CA than the other way around. Also, CA doesn't have any more headroom to raise taxes. They might want to think long and hard before they go down this road.
Posted by gorb 2017-01-29 02:31||   2017-01-29 02:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Water?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-29 04:53||   2017-01-29 04:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Another point, what exactly do they do when Trump announces that since California isn't sending in the tax money required by law, they shall receive no Federal benefit programs? I can just imagine what happens when the Black communities in LA wind up without food-stamps because of illegal immigrants.
Posted by Charles 2017-01-29 06:00||   2017-01-29 06:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Something a bit more subtle. Since they're keen on leaving the Union anyway. Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC).
Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-29 06:45||   2017-01-29 06:45|| Front Page Top

#6 How much electricity does CA produce? How much do they consume?
Posted by airandee 2017-01-29 07:53||   2017-01-29 07:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Donor state??? I would like to see the creative math on that one.
Posted by 49 Pan 2017-01-29 10:54||   2017-01-29 10:54|| Front Page Top

#8 I ain't messing with the IRS just to make Willie Brown happy.

But, B, do NOT mess with Camp Pendleton. The goons that run Los Angeles and Orange counties would like nothing better than to let their developer buddies rape that land with their bulldozers. You'd be doing them a favor and you don't want to do that. Same thing goes for Miramar Marine Corps Air Base and where else would you station all those Navy ships in San Diego Bay? There must be better ways to put the hurt on California politicians than pulling out the military.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-01-29 11:28||   2017-01-29 11:28|| Front Page Top

#9 and where else would you station all those Navy ships in San Diego Bay?

Seattle or Pearl.
Posted by Procopius2k 2017-01-29 11:35||   2017-01-29 11:35|| Front Page Top

#10 "Malfeasance :the commission (as by a public official) of a wrongful or unlawful act involving or affecting the performance of one's duties ". Merriam Webster

Perhaps it's time to charge mayors and governors for gross violation of the public trust through conspiracy to commit seditious acts? Just the whiff of such actions would have a profound effect on the domestic enemies of the Constitution.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-01-29 11:37||   2017-01-29 11:37|| Front Page Top

#11 and where else would you station all those Navy ships in San Diego Bay?

It becomes our West Coast Guantanamo - all of San Diego County
Posted by Frank G 2017-01-29 12:35||   2017-01-29 12:35|| Front Page Top

#12 Might also wanna think of all those NATIONAL PARKS
Posted by Frank G 2017-01-29 12:36||   2017-01-29 12:36|| Front Page Top

#13 Let them try. Will be a fantastic show.

Would IRS just seize state assets in bank accounts?
Posted by Iblis 2017-01-29 14:41||   2017-01-29 14:41|| Front Page Top

#14 Democrats, the same today as yesterday. Setting up confederate states.
Posted by newc 2017-01-29 15:46||   2017-01-29 15:46|| Front Page Top

#15 It becomes our West Coast Guantanamo - all of San Diego County
OK. That works for me.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-01-29 16:17||   2017-01-29 16:17|| Front Page Top

#16 There is a movement for much of rural northern California to break away. If California withholds funding from the Feds, expect much of the "State of Jefferson" counties to do the same to the state. This could get interesting fast.
Posted by AuburnTom 2017-01-29 21:29||   2017-01-29 21:29|| Front Page Top

#17 The only way th idea of a donor state works is if you count the Federal Income taxes paid by residents of California. The only way California could possibly control that would be to force companies that withhold on behalf of residents to not give the money over to the feds and open themselves up to all sorts of federal reprisals and confiscations (no company in their right mind would open that door).

So this is nonsense as far as I can figure.
Posted by rjschwarz 2017-01-29 22:47||   2017-01-29 22:47|| Front Page Top

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