| ▲ | themafia 2 hours ago |
| The federal government is. We'll see if the founders concept of a union of states is worth as much as it was proclaimed to be. |
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| ▲ | aloha2436 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| > We'll see if the founders concept of a union of states is worth as much as it was proclaimed to be. States can't issue their own currency, they're all going wherever the nation goes on this one. |
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| ▲ | therobots927 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That’s interesting. Hadn’t thought of it that way. I can’t for the life of me figure out why more blue states aren’t taxing their wealthy occupants to cover the gap in lost federal funding from DOGE. If they were smart they would start stretching that muscle. |
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| ▲ | dpb001 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The union of states arrangement has the side effect of putting the states in competition with each other for things like new/expanding businesses and residents. It's relatively easy to relocate (or even remain in a state while legally "residing" elsewhere). So there are diminishing returns to raising the tax rates significantly on the upper brackets at the state level. I'm not a believer in the trickle down theory but beyond a certain marginal rate many people would just move to a state with a lower rate. | | |
| ▲ | vincnetas an hour ago | parent [-] | | this somehow excludes such human concept as sense of belonging. might be in usa it has atrophied already but sense of home is really important in some places. place where you spend most of your life, where you have you real social network, neighbors and childhood friends. sometimes its lower tax is not worth loosing it all. its not everything about money (for some) ps im talking about real persons here, not corporations |
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| ▲ | Acrobatic_Road 26 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | they are trying and its backfiring on them |
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