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dameon_reaper posted...

and they probably put more money into the country than red states do.

There's no probably about it. The states that pay the most in are blue and the states that take the most out are red.

EPR-radar posted...

Can this nonsense just end already?

States don't pay federal taxes, people do.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trumps-funding-freezes-states-new-gambit-withholding-federal-money-rcna215212

In all four states, the bills direct state officials to withhold payments owed by the states to the federal government if federal agencies have acted in contravention of judicial orders or have taken unlawful actions to withhold funds previously appropriated by Congress. Payments available for withholding include the federal taxes collected from the paychecks of state employees, as well as grant payments owed back to the federal government.

EPR-radar posted...

And I can guarantee that the highest priority for Trump's IRS will be making examples out of any little-fish blue state tax resistance.

Trump's already trying to make examples out of blue states, as the article in the OP demonstrates. Also...

Takuya_Lee posted...

And also how will the IRS go after blue states if they have no staff?

Edit: And if anyone is thinking the Supreme Court won't let blue states withhold funding, we're well past the point where Democrats needed to tell John Roberts, "fuck you, make me."