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White House Terror Tactics Are Pushing Blue State Leaders to Active Resistance
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this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2026
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Withholding federal taxes would be a better first step
Withholding federal taxes, using the national guard to arrest ICE leadership and to walk ICE agents into jail cells. Shut down roads that ICE needs to move around, block off known ICE concentration camps until they are shutdown. So many things that would be nice to see them do.
My taxes go to mouth breathers in the south and Midwest rather than my community. I wouldn't care about helping them, but damned if they don't reject any attempt to help any fucking one that isn't them.
Fuck them. They have bootstraps and shit, too.
I do want to do this in the west coast alliance. Since we pay directly to the federal government as citizens, the states would need to band together and ensure that they would protect us from federal crimes to allow us to withhold our taxes. I’d even be okay with them setting up a sort of “escrow” where we pay our federal taxes to the states in the name of that protection, and then either get a refund once we leave the union, or to be used for cascadia’s new military. After that, our federal taxes can be reduced and/or reallocated to the new state services.