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But Cali and New York do not reap the tax revenue of a country with the GDP of their size; they can only reap part of it, both because Federal taxes remove a portion of that taxable income, and because states are necessarily more limited in their options for taxation than national governments.
It's possible, don't get me wrong, but significantly more difficult.
Bruh, do you not remember how Obamacare was passed?
I'd love to see people like Newsome, Kotek, Ferguson, and Hochul grow some balls and start co-opting Trumps rhetoric on these trade deficits but with federal taxes instead. Currently most blue states pay more to the federal government than they receive and those dollars that they do receive are just returning the very tax revenue they sent out but with Trump's ridiculous conditions tacked on. He currently has his base of useful idiots talking about how uninhibited islands like the Mcdonald Islands are "ripping us off" so they should strike while the iron is hot and threaten to seize federal tax revenue generated from the workers and industries in their respective states just the same. If Trump is going to gut every federal office and program that actually impacts people's lives, what are we even sending them money for?
As far as the first part of your response: Hmm, that's interesting.
As far as the, "Bruh, do you not remember.."
Yes, I remember how Obamacare was passed.
Do you you remember how it seemed like a public option should pass- it had a ton of support- people were rallying behind it.
And then DroopyDog Senator Lieberman had that touted "meeting with Obama" and the public option was scuttled.
From the moment that happened, I thought, "Lieberman's the fall guy. The democrats don't want the public option, and Obama isn't any different from everyone else before him." (think Flint, think Guantanamo, think Bank bailouts, think Bank Bailouts again). If Obama had wanted it, he could have done it. I mean, look at Trump. He didn't.
At the time I was furious with Lieberman and Obama- now, just Obama.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-dec-15-la-naw-health-senate16-2009dec16-story.html
Lord.
Yeah.
I also think he could have closed Guantanamo.
And I even think he could have bailed out the people that lost their houses and not the people that owned (banks, through predatory loans) the houses.
I still think he should have nationalized the banks that failed and renamed them to "Bank A" and "Bank B." But no, no consequences for the rich under Obama just like everyone else.
Crazy huh.
Apparently you don't remember how that went either.
Oh, sure, just pass an executive order for it, right?
Jesus Christ man.
In desire, no; in perceptions of what the president has the power to do, yes.
I see a lot of refutation, but if the year has taught us anything it's that the rules of the game are about as rigidly enforced as the rules of monopoly. Every single politician in my life could have chosen to just ignore the rules for the benefit of the people, instead the first one that does is the one that's out to hurt us.
Obama won in a landslide. The democrats owned both houses.
People at the time really thought Obama would be on the the side of the people- not the rich. I mean, come on, he was our first black president; you would have thought he would at least be on the side of the blacks.
If he had been, then Bernie wouldn't have been such a sensation. If he had been, and Hillary was like, "Obama and the DNC has anointed me his successor, and I will continue to do all the great things he has done," Bernie wouldn't have existed. Bernie was the message that Obama had actually failed. Flint was real.
Anyway. If Trump has one Lieberman senator stopping him from getting some signature item, you can bet that their meeting isn't going to end with that signature item being scuttled, it's going to be that Lieberman would be afraid he'll lose everything.
Trump is extreme, but Obama could have made the final push. Same with our black torture rendition site.
For me, seeing Obama is cringe. I wonder if that viewpoint is radical. I mean, Obama is a saint when compared to Trump, but...
Perhaps I am unjustified.