State’s governor looks to thwart US president’s plan to divert money to allies, including January 6 rioters
California governor Gavin Newsom is looking to thwart Donald Trump’s $1.776bn “anti-weaponization fund” by imposing a 100% tax on any payout received by state residents.
In May, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced a fund to compensate alleged “victims of lawfare and weaponization”. It’s unclear who qualifies under this category.
The fund was the product of a settlement reached between Trump and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – the agency the president sued over his leaked tax returns.
Critics, including Newsom, have slammed the fund as a “boondoggle” designed to divert money to Trump’s allies. Speculation has swirled that its benefactors could include the individuals who were arrested in the 6 January 2021 siege of the US Capitol. The Trump administration has described the rioters as patriots and since pardoned many who were charged in relation to the attack.
I like Newsom’s energy in getting attention to another of the administration’s illegal actions
…. But can this actually happen or is it just noise?
The recipients are secret, but at least they’ll be committing crimes when they don’t declare the income on their taxes.
Trump is just going to keep it all.
Proceeds of crime, people. It’s not a tax: it’s simple confiscation.
Newsom: *moves up 1 in the 2028 standings*
Lemmyleft: *rends garment*
I like the clap backing Newsom does but he’s a shit politician who is only slightly less right than Fetterman.
I know little about him, as I expect most of the country does other than he seems ready willing and able to take the piss out of the demented rapist, and that’s such a rare commodity, somehow, that it’s worth political capital.
His state has a lot of electoral votes, he’s a white male, and would likely attract big money to run. Strictly speaking, it seems likely he’ll be a frontrunner, but I expect we’ll be right back to arguing the Dems need to lose again and go through all this *gestures* again.
I like the energy here but… I dont think much of this money is destined for Jan 6 idiots. Surely their usefulness to Trump is finished.
The money is to whoever trump wants to give it to for whatever reason with zero accountability. It doesn’t matter whether any Jan 6ers get any of it, it’s 100% illegal theft of taxpayer money by trump.
oh it’s just manufactured midterm consent. the money is advertising more than anything else.
It doesn’t say they would only tax jan 6ers, it says any state residents who receive a payout
Yes, but the types of people Trump needs a slush fund to pay, are the types of people that can arrange to receive the money in the most advantageous jurisdiction.
i also assume so. and in the case these assholes would receive something, i assume they would just move after this pr stunt?
Having them move away would be a net benefit to the state, so win-win.
Make it 101%. Or 200%.
Now now, I think you’re being very unfair. He should make it a progressive amount. Lets be nice and start it at, say 1% on the first $100, then 2% on the second $100, 4% on the next $100, 8% on the next, and so on.
Confused by the downvotes on your comment. Is it just people that hate math?
This quickly becomes an essentially infinite tax. That’s the joke.
If they got $1100 dollars. The tax on that last $100 of the $1100 would be 1024% or $10,240
Tax on $100 increment n is given by 2ⁿ . So the tax on $900 is the negative break point.
9 ∑ 2ⁿ = $1275 n=1You pay $1275 for receiving $900.
This explodes after that. At $2000 dollars received you owe over $2,000,000. At $30,000 received you owe more dollars than there are atoms in the entire universe.
Edit: Typing math on my phone. Could have gotten a number wrong. But the trend is the point.
Also, explaining math jokes is always hilarious.
How every democrat should respond to Republican aggression.
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Crazy their state constitution allows the governor to just unilaterally impose taxes like this, I would have thought that would be something their legislature has to do
I’m pretty sure he’s not imposing it unilaterally, but sending a bill to the Democrat-controlled California legislature, where it will easily pass. He’s also in good company, with several other governors introducing similar legislation in their own states:
This is what they should be doing to anyone who works in immigration enforcement as well. Like, I get that it’s likely to be successfully challenged but so fucking what, let it trickle through the court while states rip back from DHS what the admin has illegally refused to disburse to them in grants and other funding.
Ah, so he’s not actually doing anything anyone else couldn’t do, he’s just asking other people to do something. That makes more sense but I would not have gotten that out of this headline.
That’s because both he and the people who hate him get a benefit out of pitting him against Trump. So they’ll get more ad revenue with that headline.
But an average person trying to get this bill through the legislature committees, and both chambers, and signed by the governor, would face a much longer process. Whereas it’s fast-tracked by being pre-approved by Newsom and written up by a legal team with a proven record.
I do think it’s an excellent idea, for as long as Trump is in charge of who’s getting money. If sanity ever returns to the White House and deserving people like E. Jean Carroll start to be eligible, the percentage could be adjusted.
