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/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/VoxImperatoris 1d ago

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