California should freeze federal tax payments.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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Put it in an escrow account and use it to replace the lost medicaid and other funding.
when the feds hold up their end of the deal, they get to have the remaining funds.
I'm not sure how practical that is (seems like it would be more complicated than that). But if something like that could be done it would be great.
Conservatives want to try starving vulnerable Californians? Without our revenue dozens of red states will start starving. Would be funny seeing this administration shoot itself in the foot yet again.
I bet one of the biggest employers in California is the state itself. They simply need to tell people they are holding withholding in escrow and that any irs actions are to be forwarded to their new special tax team.
Then invite all other employers to join.
It wouldn’t be easy but the threat of it happening would bring the administration to the table. What happens when welfare states find out that the big blue boogeyman on the west coast is funding their entire existence? Will they fall in line behind republicans or will they decide to sit out the next vote?
Not just California, but most of the Northeast as well
Also, it seems that Californians send their tax payments to Fresno. So they could just, yah know. "oopsiedoodles we raided your tax office on dubious pretenses. It's cool cuz you do that to state's voting agencies..."
We (CA) pay far, far, far more into the federal system than we take out. We're literally the fourth largest GDP in the WORLD.
This is such a fucking stupid thing for this administration to do. This is why it's important to learn to read, everyone.
Age old question... Is he being stupid or purposefully doing stupid things for Russia's benefit?
Yes
American politics seem to all be 'politician does something evil, doesn't get assassinated'
So CA is being targeted. I smell a lawsuit.
Oz said that the administration needs California to clarify $630 million in billing, $500 million in home health services and $200 million in “questionable expenditures” linked to coverage for undocumented immigrants, he claimed. They are not eligible for Medicaid, however.
The move is similar to the one the administration took in February suspending Medicaid payments to Minnesota.
This has nothing to do with “fraud”, and everything to do with Californian and Minnesotan resistance to the DHS and ICE incursions of their cities, and punishing their citizens for daring to vote against Trump. California’s Republican voters are just collateral damage to them:
As of 2024, California had a higher Medicaid enrollment rate than the US overall. Enrollment in the state peaked in 2023 at 38.7%
In California, enrollees are categorized into 5 different categories:
- Children
- Pregnant women and parents or caretakers
- Adults without dependent children
- People with disabilities (including both adults and children)
- Seniors (age 65 and over
https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-people-are-on-medicaid-in-the-us/state/california/
Californians across party lines overwhelmingly support Medi-Cal. Eighty percent (80%) of Democrats, 75% of Independents, and 62% of Republicans agree that the program should generally stay as it is today.
https://www.chcf.org/resource/poll-californian-attitudes-medi-cal-covered-ca-federal-cuts/
“Doctor” Oz is no longer just a daytime TV huckster, he’s driving the policy that removes health care from pregnant women, children, and senior citizens. These people are black-hearted, red-eyed evil - “Do what we say, or we’ll take away the taxpayer-funded healthcare you paid for.”
And fucking Oz is releasing videos from his shitty old TV show on YouTube daily and getting a ton of views.
I hope he gets face cancer.
Just look at the glee on his fat stupid face, never seen people so happy to deprive people of things. Every decision they make is the most awful, the most punitive, the most cowardly one they could possibly make. Theyre going to find that a whole lot of libs arent anywhere near as soft as they seem to believe.
It's because they're so pathetic and weak that they have to make others hurt to feel good about themselves.
If there was a hell, these sub humans would already have reserved seats and ticket upgrades to the front row, watching them dismantle a country that to my naive mind was turning the corner on racism, sexism, caring wut people do in the privacy of their lives with their own ding a ling, has really been disheartening but now im gotten to the point that i cant wait to get at them, let them feel wuts its like to be on the receiving end of some brutality, when i was young i used to believe it was up to me personally to teach idiots the errors of their ways, sometimes physically but i learned theres entirely too many idiots out there i could fulfill my mission, so i grew out of that but these morons, misfits and all around pieces of shit have rekindled that primal fire again and i say come on with it, theyre baiting us every day, trying to incite us, i say ya come on and incite me, we'll obviously win any conflict, while i dont believe in rekigious fairy tales i do believe in good and evil and good ideas morals compassion and empathy win out in the end and we will defeat this pure evil that we're witnessing, lets get it popping tho, im ready right now, lol.
My prediction: California will someday be the capital of a great nation. Vance, will have no nation left to call his own.
I wish for this too.
The Secretary of State does not do Secretary of State things and the VP is delivering policy announcements. It used to be that job titles had specific responsibilities attached.
Well yes. In this case it looks like this is a roll out of the new administration. What this signals to me is that trump is closer to the end of his term - either by health or 25th amendment (or both) and we are previewing the next president and vice president.
This will mostly hurt his supporters.
But you guys take one for the team, okay MAGA?
Weaponizing the feseral govt against some states?
Vance is not president why is he doing anything like this? Isn't this Trump's job? I didn't remember any other vice president (maybeee Cheney) being this involved in doing the presidents job
This isn't the job of any individual person. That's not how any of this was ever supposed to work.
Because when it gets pointed out for being illegal and evil, Trump can say he never had any knowledge of it. Vance gets thrown under the bus or they'll find some other patsy to blame for going rogue.
This isn't the presidents job at all whomever it is. This is the job of the Congress.
I she, but my point still stands, why is Vance involved at all?
I mentioned this in a different comment - My feeling is that the RNC sees the writing on the wall with trump - his age, health, cognitive decline, etc and are previewing the potential next president and vice president (Rubio). They are letting Vance get some air time to build him up in voters minds before he gets thrown in the deep end when trump isn't president.
Yeah I agree but still
It's a misleading title, but it doesn't get much better if you click on it. Funny thing is they are complaining that California isn't tough on fraud. FRAUD! I mean you can't make this shit up. I thought this just means that California is now qualified to be president.
could freeze funding for their Medicaid fraud units unless they investigate and prosecute fraud by providers
lolwut?
This will last until it gets into a court room.
and by then countless damage will have already been done and they’ll have moved onto the next bullshit to cram down our pipes.
If anyplace has emergency reserve funds and can act quickly to release them, it's Cali
I can't understand how any U.S. citizen can still have faith in the legal system.
Here's just one example of how hopeless that is: the incumbent president is still in office.
Even the people on r/conservative are calling this the dumbest way to handle the issue...
Give them a couple days to acclimate to the new cult rationalizations.
Usha deserves that ugly fuck
Show the law where it says that
Can't wait to read the governor candidates responses to this.