r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 20h ago

California to Negotiate Trade With Other Countries to Bypass Trump Tariffs

https://www.newsweek.com/california-newsom-trade-trump-tariffs-2055414
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u/illuminaughty1973 19h ago

one out of every seven dollars in the usa is produced by California....

Trump has lost before he starts.... and that assuming new york, washington , and a lot of other blue states dont join.

bet Trump does not like states rights all of a sudden.

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u/Rickbox 19h ago

I suspect the other blue states are going to see how this plays out before making a move.

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u/CAL9k 19h ago

I could see Michigan following suit if California is successful. We are so tied to Canada in terms of energy and the automotive industry.

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u/LordKai121 19h ago

I think Minnesota would also follow suit quite expediently.

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u/FlyingSagittarius 19h ago

And Illinois.  There’s your economic powerhouses of the midwest right there.

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u/ragnarocknroll 18h ago

Just northern Illinois. Leave the Iowa wannabe part out. Watch the suburbs get back 40% of the money they pay in taxes instead of supporting those counties.

I always find it funny when the counties saying they want to leave Illinois make noise, because they would be in trouble without us.

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u/DOG_DICK__ 18h ago

Texas has a "robin hood" system for school funding, and my city sends SO much tax money to the state to distribute to other areas that fucking hate us.

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u/twiztedterry 17h ago

I'm not in Texas, but in Utah they give all sales tax and most property tax to the schools. It lets the hillbillies and fundamentalist mormons bitch about socialism while benefitting directly from it.

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u/VoxImperatoris 17h ago

Which they take and spend on football stadiums instead of books, because books are for libruls.

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u/nah-42 17h ago

rural Illinois is more like southern Indiana than Iowa. That’s why the each-and-every-decade proposal of splitting illinois in half always has the map drawn as northern Indiana joining Chicagoland for the new Illinois while southern Illinois joins the rest of Indiana as the new Hoosier state.

Fuck Iowa.

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u/Cyclonitron Minnesota 17h ago

Fuck Iowa.

Agreed. All my homies hate Iowa.

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u/PraiseBeToScience 16h ago

It's almost like what the city could be if the suburbs didn't come in existence specifically to erode its tax base while benefitting from its existence.

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u/AvrgSam Minnesota 19h ago

Absolutely, and we’re a solid economic cornerstone of the Midwest.

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u/campingcritters 18h ago

I'm moving there this summer from Texas. I can't wait!

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u/Adamclane99 18h ago

It's amazing!

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u/BellacosePlayer South Dakota 16h ago

minnesota would probably split, with the rural western half breaking off

which isn't necessarily a downside from your perspective

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u/LordKai121 16h ago

I'll be honest, I know very little about MN, just have a bunch of family and friends there (they have the largest Hmong population). However just from what I hear and have visited, MN sounds very similar to where I live in Central Cali.

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u/BellacosePlayer South Dakota 16h ago

I'm right on the SD/MN border and much of Western MN is not much different than Eastern SD/ND. They even had some politicians saber rattle about cutting free and joining SD a few years ago

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u/DarthTechnicus Wisconsin 16h ago

I have hope WI would, but it wouldn't come from the state legislature. It would have to come from the Governor which would be challenged in court and makes Tuesday's State Supreme Court victory matter even more. Granted, if we had lost the shifting of the balance would only happen August 1st, but shit, we're good til 2028 at least now.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 15h ago edited 15h ago

MN would certainly try, but tragically our state House is no longer in pure DFL majority control, there's a 50:50 split between DFL and GOP, so our ability to do things that actually help people like we've been doing for the last few years is stunted.

Hopefully the DFL has a great midterm in 2026 and we can scrap sharing power with the morally and literally bankrupt MN GOP.