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/CAL9k 1d 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 1d ago

I think Minnesota would also follow suit quite expediently.

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u/FlyingSagittarius 1d ago

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

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u/ragnarocknroll 1d 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__ 1d 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 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/nah-42 1d 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 1d ago

Fuck Iowa.

Agreed. All my homies hate Iowa.

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u/PraiseBeToScience 1d 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.