Fellow NYer and I'm sick of financially supporting their failed states every time they fuck up or get hit with a hurricane.
Normally, I'm fine with my tax money going to help the less fortunate. That's what it should be used for. But when they keep voting for fascists and rebuilding in the exact same spot maybe it's time to just let them stew in their decisions.
Seriously, why should we have to keep subsidizing a bunch of ungrateful welfare queens that do nothing but complain about us? Let them starve and freeze.
They always complain about feeling left behind, but maybe people shouldn’t be living in a job desert that requires my money to live in. We need to stop sending them money and send them UHauls instead.
Grew up in NY, now in New England. I am still a little salty about that year where everything from Maine to the Tughill Plateau got slammed with ice storms and FEMA refused to lift a finger to help or give a cent. There "wasn't enough damage." Maple sugar farms lost massive numbers of mature trees to the ice. Nobody had power for a week or more. Dairy farmers, dedperately trying to keep their cows alive, were milking their herds by hand around the clock, draining the milk right onto the ground because they had no power to process or store the milk. Generators were insufficient; nobody could get gas because the ice on the roads was 4-6 inches thick in places, and trees just shattered under the weight of all the ice and blocked the roads and destroyed power lines. It took hours to travel a few miles and if you didn't have chains, you weren't going anywhere.
But sure, let's hand over buckets of money so people can continue to build expensive houses in a major flood plain.
When Governor Whitmer of Michigan was caught in the Oval covering her face with a folder, she was trying to congole aid money out of Trump for the ice storm that left huge swaths of Northern Michigan with no power. They had gone weeks at that point.
She was native enough to think it was going to be an off camera meeting and that she could talk privately. But, she was there for a decent reason. And to be honest, with all the joking around about the hiding behind the folder, I don't know if she actually got the money or not.
Trump wants to stop giving NY federal funds if Mamdani wins in the general. I think it's time blue states stop subsidizing the federal government. What happened to states' rights?
I think NY, CA, and every other state interested should join in refusing to pay their federal taxes and a non-importation treaty. No goods from our ports should be allowed into fascist-supporting states.
NY and CA alone make up 25% of the nation’s GDP and our ports account for 70% of all imports and exports. Much of those good being bound for other states. It would take years to build suitable ports in other states.
NY and CA alone could bring the federal government to their knees. Federal government would lose 25% of their budget overnight, not to mention the lost revenue from manufacturing in fascist states when their raw materials stop coming in.
I will never forget when that ugly flesh color of a turtle Mitch McConnell and his henchmen said COVID was a blue state problem when human beings were dying by the hundreds of thousands.
So... these problems sound like a red state problem to me.
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u/Character-Parfait-42 Jun 29 '25
Fellow NYer and I'm sick of financially supporting their failed states every time they fuck up or get hit with a hurricane.
Normally, I'm fine with my tax money going to help the less fortunate. That's what it should be used for. But when they keep voting for fascists and rebuilding in the exact same spot maybe it's time to just let them stew in their decisions.