The novel and untested approach has been introduced by Democratic lawmakers in at least four states.
Democratic legislators mostly in blue states are attempting to fight back against Donald Trump’s efforts to withhold funding from their states with bills that aim to give the federal government a taste of its own medicine.
The novel and untested approach — so far introduced in Connecticut, Maryland, New York and Wisconsin — would essentially allow states to withhold federal payments if lawmakers determine the federal government is delinquent in funding owed to them. Democrats in Washington state said they are in the process of drafting a similar measure.
These bills still have a long way to go before becoming law, and legal experts said they would face obstacles. But they mark the latest efforts by Democrats at the state level to counter what they say is a massive overreach by the Trump administration to cease providing federal funding for an array of programs that have helped states pay for health care, food assistance and environmental protections.
Otherwise known as “The collapse of the USA”.
Inshallah
Can’t wait to get imprisoned in a mental institution and Aktion-T4’d as a trans person in the wrong state!
That’s what’s going to happen to us if the US doesn’t collapse.
My state is unambiguously going to be on the wrong side of the civil war.
So is mine, but if there isn’t a civil war my state is still going to put me in a camp for being trans.
Let me rephrase: do you think we’ll be safe if the US doesn’t collapse?
Secede. Whatever happens in the US after this administration, there is no repairing the damage that has been done without violence. There is no restoring the Constitution, no repairing the rule of law, no restoration of democracy, no restoring affordable living, no curbing the power of billionaire oligarchs, no path to freedom, liberty, or sanity.
Escape is the only option that has a chance at minimizing bloodshed. Individual escape by emigrating, but what countries would want American expats now? so many are following the US’c corrupt lead. Special privileges for the rich, slavery for the serfdom.
Collective escape via secession and the creation of new independent countries is the only sane path forward now. Alternatively annexation could work, but I don’t see Canada or Mexico going out of their way to save Americans, for reasons that should be obvious.
So you don’t see Canada putting any effort into saving… California or the north east coast?
Let the red states have their trumpistan, I’ll lobby my new Canadian representative to veto aid packages all day long eh.
Canada is three mining companies in a trench coat.
It’s both not as liberal and not as nice as it has a reputation for being.
If Cascadia has a chance, it isn’t with Canada.
I have no idea if this would even do anything.
The federal government prints money. If the states don’t pay the federal government it doesn’t actually mean the government will run out of money.
What will happen is the money supply will balloon, because federal payments are one of the ways the government controls the money supply. If those payments don’t go back to the feds, the delayed payments will stay in circulation.
That might create inflation? Will it do anything else? Again, no idea.
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The Federal government is going to draw up and execute its budget as if they had the funds anyway.
That’s what I was getting at when I pointed out the fact that the feds print their own money. The federal government would be fine.
I was just running the thought experiment of “would this even do anything” under the assumption that it was successful. And it’s a fantasy on its face, even in the best case scenario it accomplishes nothing.
And the best case isn’t what would happen, because ultimately you’re right and this won’t be allowed. There are a lot of mechanisms the federal government has to compell the states to pay their dues.
