r/politics • u/sweatycat New York • 1d 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/Automatic-Wonder-299 California 1d ago

On One hand, that’s pretty unconstitutional

On the other hand, the constitution has already been shredded at this point, so who care

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u/IdkAbtAllThat America 1d ago

It's defacto secession. And m I'm all for it.

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u/hereditydrift 1d ago

I live in New York. Trump took away $300 million earmarked for healthcare and substance abuse treatment. I'm all for the blue states aligning and having a defacto secession.

California, New York, and other more liberal states subsidize many of the poorer conservative states through the allocation of federal tax dollars. For states that subsidize other states to now have more federal funding that supports social services to be pulled from their coffers is abhorrent.