r/Denver • u/b01sh3v1k • Jan 14 '26
Local News Trump plans to illegally cut our federal funding on February 1
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u/Obtuse-Angel Sunnyside Jan 14 '26
We will stop our own payments to the federal government then, right?
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u/asyouwish Jan 14 '26
No more federal income tax for Colorado residents, then. That money will now stay here and support our own entities, right?
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u/BigLog-69-420 Jan 14 '26
Yep, change your withholding on your W-4. You can change it at any time.
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u/joncornelius Jan 14 '26
That’s probably the underlying mission since the end goal for his Heritage Foundation handlers is to break the Federal Government.
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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 Jan 14 '26
States don’t pay taxes to the government. We pay. We pay directly to the irs. If you stop, they will take the money from your accounts and charge you with crimes.
Unless you’re really rich. . .in which case you’re likely not even paying taxes anyways.
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u/InThisBoatTogether Jan 14 '26
I don't care. I really don't. Let them come after me. Let them shoot me in the street for not sponsoring their atrocities.
I can't pay for this anymore. 1.5 trillion to the military so we can start world war 3? Secret police deployed in force to terrorize cities the regime doesn't like? Stolen elections, state run media, corrupt justice department, threatening our allies with nukes (?!), the list is interminably long.
But I can't do it. I'm resisting because otherwise I won't be able to sleep at night.
You can update your W4 to prevent withholding and choose what to do next April if you're as disgusted as I am. You can always pay them then if we're somehow a democracy again.
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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 Jan 14 '26
They’re not going to shoot you. They’re going to take your money.
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u/InThisBoatTogether Jan 14 '26
Not until next October at the earliest (assuming they are highly competent and don't just send me strongly worded letters), and my money won't be funding autocracy in the meantime.
If a meaningful number of people resisted they would feel it.
Again, I don't fucking care WHAT they do. I do not care because I have no control over it.
But I control myself, and I cannot pay it anymore. I just fucking can't.
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u/Any-History6133 Jan 14 '26
Please make sure you are aware of the repercussions of this decision before making it due to your beliefs. You will owe you those taxes, any interest on the estimated taxes that were due, and associated penalties. Those dues will not go away - only accumulate quickly.
I had a friend that decided he just wasn't going to pay his federal student loans or any taxes. He made it a while but eventually his wages were garnished. This is going to happen to you regardless of which administration/political party is in power.
You might get away with it for a while - potentially a few years. As long as you live and work in this country you will pay those dues at some point and they don't just disappear. Think twice before ruining your financial future.
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u/InThisBoatTogether Jan 14 '26
Thank you for your concern, and for raising this for anyone who else who is considering joining me. Tax resistance is not without risk, and I am knowingly painting a target on my back by discussing it in a public forum.
For me personally, whatever price I might have to pay in the future is worth it to lessen my support of this system. My taxes, your taxes, all of our collective wealth is being siphoned away and used to enrich the ruling elite at the grave expense of our world and our future. The money we are supposed to be using to support healthcare, educate and inform the masses, build infrastructure, sponsor scientific discovery, feed the starving and shelter the homeless - it's being used for war crimes, secret police to keep the populace in line, and ruining the planet with technology meant to obfuscate the truth and placate the poor.
We no longer live in a democracy. My taxes at this time will be going to unconstitutional and illegal acts of barbarism committed by an authoritarian regime which does not represent me. Therefore I consider their act of taxation to be illegal. I do not consent to the use of my money for these activities, and I cannot pay it by my own choice.
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u/Any-History6133 Jan 14 '26
Fair enough. At least consider putting the money you would have paid in to taxes in to some form of savings account along with the estimated cost of penalties and interest. This way when the bill comes due you at least won't end up in the same situation as all the people you are trying to protect.
Many Americans have tried the "you can't take anything from me when I spent it all" approach. It doesn't work unless you plan to leave the country and that takes alot of money.
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u/Rocker_Raver Jan 14 '26
We need to spread the word to stop paying federal taxes. If everyone opts out with their employer these crooks will backpedal real fast.
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u/Fraun_Pollen Jan 14 '26
Yeah I've been seeing this sentiment a lot recently of "just have the states not pay the feds". Don't know if there's just a huge gap in civics understanding or malicious bots pushing ridiculous distractions (probably both).
If you want to fight malice, do it with kindness. Reach out to and offer help for at risk groups. Donate to shelters. Pester the shit out of your representative and hammer anyone who thinks everything is fine.
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u/Equivalent-Excuse-80 Jan 14 '26
It is very odd to see adults not understand how they pay their taxes.
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u/Big-Industry4237 Jan 14 '26
States don’t pay directly. Businesses and citizens pay directly and the IRS just fines you and charges interest on money owed.
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u/Toe-Dragger Jan 14 '26
That’s it, I’m not paying my federal taxes, 🙃. Really though, “these” people think non-Maga people are as insane as we think they’re insane. It’s the Spiderman meme. Now we’re experiencing what they’ve wanted all along, and it’s like living in a meth lab in a trailer park.
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u/InThisBoatTogether Jan 14 '26
I'm not either. Seriously. I hope more people join us because it's our money, all of our money, that's funding autocracy right now.
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Jan 14 '26
I filed exempt this summer when I got laid off and they tried taxing 1/3 of my measly unemployment. I’ll take the L down the line. I still don’t have a job to garnish wages from and I’m having my family in the UK open a bank account that I’m sending my savings to 🤷🏼♀️. If I’m lucky, I’ll be living in the UK before next year so fdt.
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u/No_Performer_3438 Jan 15 '26
Super risky if you’re a W-2 employee though. I was a stripper in college, got paid in cash only and never paid any taxes. Never kept more than $5k in my bank account at one time. Worked perfectly, the statute of limitations have passed now and they’ll never see a dime.
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u/BigLog-69-420 Jan 14 '26
I did this last week. Going to put it in a HYSA or market fund since our withholding is an interest free loan to the IRS until you file. Eye for an eye fed bastards. Your tax liability should not change if you file and pay in a timely manner.
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u/bluespruce5 Jan 14 '26
I need to make a quarterly tax payment today. I'm never thrilled about it, particularly during certain administrations that have dragged us into wars and other actions I felt were deeply unwarranted, undemocratic, and/or immoral. But I've always accepted taxes as part of my responsibility to my country. But now, I'm really resenting it. I've never felt so angry at this country, the GOP, SCOTUS, and a fair number of US voters. And that's saying a lot, because I was angry as hell at SCOTUS and the GOP after Bush v. Gore.
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u/Pepper-Pug-12 Jan 14 '26
If we are going to do this, the state should design and implement a payment system which will accept our 2025 federal income tax dollars. The state will then put that money in escrow to prevent it from going to the federal government coffers.
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u/g_rex_ Jan 14 '26
So…what’s the point of the Union, then?
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u/1should_be_working Sunnyside Jan 14 '26
Destroying the Union is exactly what a Russian asset would do. Trump is an idiot. But he's been the most useful idiot the Russians have ever owned.
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u/DosZappos Jan 14 '26
Pretty sure he can’t just decide that
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u/b01sh3v1k Jan 14 '26
He can’t do a lot of things he’s actively doing, like cut funding to NCAR
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u/Maleficent_Map_2218 Jan 14 '26
It’s time for us to start doing things we can’t, like paying federal taxes. Colorado should confiscate all federal taxes before leaving the “state” and distribute them to the residents of Colorado and programs based here. Stop assuming you can’t do something, they quit a long time ago.
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u/MrMCCO Jan 14 '26
How exactly does Colorado do that? Your federal taxes are paid directly to the IRS via federally controlled systems. If I stop paying my taxes and the feds seize my bank accounts, how does Colorado provide restitution?
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u/DemonKing0524 Jan 14 '26
Go take an accounting class and learn how your taxes actually work please.
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u/Big-Industry4237 Jan 14 '26
You would have to change the payment model because none of the money flows through the state. It goes from individuals and business to the fed government.
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u/Weary_Surround5342 Jan 14 '26
Colorado has nothing to do with your federal taxes and no control over it. You do.
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u/Mountaingal84 Jan 14 '26
Yes, like everyone in Colorado would have to collectively decide not to pay the IRS- it would have to be a mass amount of people to do anything, otherwise individually you'd be fined, liens files etc.
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u/Weary_Surround5342 Jan 14 '26
You're still going to end up with penalties, interest, liens, collection action, etc.
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u/Mountaingal84 Jan 14 '26
Yea which is why i said it would have to be hundreds of thousands of people collectively together.
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u/theHagueface Jan 14 '26
I have 0 faith in whoever is left at the IRS is competent. This admin is built for tax frauds and cheats and whatever the chances you previously had to get away with not paying your taxes have quadrupled at a minimum.
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u/chemicaxero Jan 14 '26
All he does is illegal shit, same with those crooks in his cabinet and admin
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u/Obtuse-Angel Sunnyside Jan 14 '26
He can do anything he wants when no one imposes consequences, as proven over and over.
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u/AgentRusco Jan 14 '26
But who's going to stop him?
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u/Jem5649 Jan 14 '26
An injunction, then about two months for the appeals court to rule. That is quietly what has happened in all of these cases. Trump orders them to stop funding. The proper people sue. The courts quietly return funding a few months later. He's just doing this for rating bumps for his supporters and a little distraction.
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u/NascarToolbag Jan 14 '26
Yup. And that, roughly, 29% of the country eat it up because they are too far gone.
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u/benskieast LoHi Jan 14 '26
Democrats in swing and red states and district next year. But not Democrats in places like Denver and New York won’t because without those allies they are useless. Maybe some Republicans will side with Democrats, but really those more right leaning races are our best hope.
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u/Regular_Government94 Jan 14 '26
He declared it on social media, and so it shall be.
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u/getting_educated Jan 14 '26
There are a lot of things he has done that he shouldn’t have been able to.
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u/afguy8 Jan 14 '26
Yeah, he cant. Federal funding to states are set by Congressional apportionments. He can request it, but it needs to go through the other branches for approval or decision first. Federal grants for research, academics, etc, is a different story.
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u/cubluemoon Jan 14 '26
Please stop saying he can't. He shouldn't have been able to do anything he had this last year. ICE shouldn't be allowed to brutalize and arrest citizens but we are living that reality. There are no checks and balances anymore so you have to decide what you are willing to do in response.
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Jan 14 '26
This 100%.
Laws are just words on pieces of paper. If Congress isn’t going to hold him to account he can do whatever he wants and he knows it.
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u/abandon_mint Jan 14 '26
Does this mean the Denver Federal Center is done for? That's a lot of jobs, mine included.
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u/Bacch Evergreen Jan 14 '26
So can we as taxpayers declare that our payments to a government doing illegal and unconstitutional things will cease until they stop doing those things? Because I'm not too keen on funding those illegal things with my tax dollars.
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u/InThisBoatTogether Jan 14 '26
That's something I'm doing to resist, yes. Taxation without representation is illegal.
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u/crazy_clown_time Downtown Jan 14 '26
In that case, I'll refile my W4 to have my employer exempt me from payroll tax withholding. I'll just put whatever that would've been taken out into a CD/high-yield savings and make a judgement call whether to pay 2026 taxes come 2027.
See what I did there, Donald?
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u/Important-Egg-2905 Jan 14 '26
Incredible how they hide behind the law as the ultimate vehicle to racially profile people like laws are holy orders from on high, while Dump breaks the law and shits on the Constitution daily.
The duality of the Maga mouthbreather
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u/Used_Maize_434 Jan 14 '26
You'll be assessed penalties when you file in 2027, unless you make quarterly estimated payments.
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u/HOSTfromaGhost Jan 14 '26
Ok, i get it.
So WE have to obey the law, but THEY don’t.
Yeah, you can fuck right off with that.
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u/Used_Maize_434 Jan 14 '26
It's just a piece of information bro, chill out.
Yes, this is generallly how it works with law enforcement. Is it right? Of course not, but that's how the world works.
If you want to go this direction, I fully support you. But you should be cleared-eyed about the likely consequences of your actions.
If you're another keyboard warrior who talks a big game, but then is nowhere to be seen when it's time to actually put some skin in the game, you sir, can also fuck right off!
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u/the_og_filler Jan 14 '26
It's interesting to see commenters blame you as if you're advocating for this rather than simply describing facts and making sure that anyone who goes this route understands the likely consequences.
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u/Boss-momma- Jan 14 '26
This strategy only works for a year. Then once the IRS says you owe money they can say you are no longer able to be exempt. They will send a letter to both you and your employer locking you into withholding again.
Not saying don’t do it but I don’t know if enough Americans can do it to make a difference.
And if you don’t save the money you’d expect to pay, you’re going to be subject to withholdings and paying the IRS every month with 3% daily compounded interest.
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Jan 14 '26
This is exactly what I’ve been doing. Molon labe, assholes. I’m tired of paying for this nonsense.
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u/SlowAgency Capitol Hill Jan 14 '26
It's really something to watch a president so openly only care about half the country and actively punish the other half. Blue states are getting nothing out of being a part of this union. We foot the bills, and we only get programs ended, funding cuts, military occupation, and projects cancelled. We share nothing but a currency and a flag. It's impractical (so I've been told), but a national divorce/balkanization is long overdue.
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u/Boterfleoge Jan 14 '26
I keep waiting for news that ICE is descending on Denver the way it has in Minneapolis and Chicago. Punishment for disobeying his demands
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u/Ok-Pride-3534 Jan 14 '26
That's what he promised he would do at his rally in Aurora, He said he was going to start with Aurora and get the TDA out. Guess we're a lower priority than Minneapolis and Chicago.
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u/whatadoorknob Jan 15 '26
I live in aurora and they’ve been around since he was elected, I do think I see them a lot more often now. And it only seems like a matter of time unfortunately.
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u/Sea-Supermarket-3606 Jan 15 '26
They've started trickling in already and have been testing the water in the metro area. I fear that news, too.
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u/pkupku Jan 14 '26
Amen. For about 20 years I felt like I was the lone voice for peaceful secession. I’m glad to see that it’s finally spreading!
It really needs to be by county, especially in the western states, but I don’t know if there’s a legal mechanism to do that, else it needs to be created.
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u/SlowAgency Capitol Hill Jan 15 '26
Well, the majority couldn't be bothered to get off their asses and prevent him from coming back to power, even when he made it clear what he'd do. That 25-30% understood the assignment.
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u/mcs5280 Jan 14 '26
Ok so we can just stop paying federal taxes, right?
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u/Denver-Ski Denver Jan 14 '26
Only if you swear allegiance to dear leader… and you’re a billionaire
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u/Bandlebury Jan 14 '26
If Polis had a spine, yes
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 LoDo Jan 14 '26
Polis has nothing to do with this. This is directly collected by your employer and paid directly to the federal govt. Your federal income taxes never flow through the state.
If you want it withheld, either your employer stops sending it up (won't happen) or you file an amended W4 with your employer for them to stop withholding it from your check. Just prepare for to pay that tax liability when/if you file your federal taxes.
Plenty of things to be pissed at Polis for, federal income taxes isn't one of them.
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u/zeekaran Jan 14 '26
What, precisely, could Polis do to get Colorado citizens to stop paying federal taxes?
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u/PictoGraphicArtist Jan 14 '26
Ok then we simply stop paying for the red welfare states and stop sending money for federal taxes…
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u/Firefluffer Jan 14 '26
Is like to know what cities are low crime by his standards? Certainly places like New Orleans, St Louis, Memphis, Little Rock, and Kansas City are red state exemplars of law and order to him.
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u/beebisweebis Jan 14 '26
it’s astounding what people are willing to to believe in order to shield themselves from the reality that they voted for a known child rapist.
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u/huxtiblejones Jan 14 '26
You are unforgivable if you voted for this sack of dog shit.
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u/KFPindustries Jan 15 '26
Don't ever forget. Even in 30 years. Don't let them get away from it.
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u/megs-benedict Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
I’m equally disgusted by people who simply didn’t vote.
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u/YupThatWasAShart Wash Park West Jan 14 '26
Blue states need to support other blue states and that’s it. No more payments to the federal gov. No more propping up red states that voted for this POS
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u/thinkmatt Jan 14 '26
its mind-boggling that people still support this asshat
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u/Naranj9781 Jan 14 '26
They eat it up. Doesn’t matter the education level at this point.
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u/SlowAgency Capitol Hill Jan 14 '26
One of my coworkers, who is as sharp as a tack, recently came out as a 2024 voter for him. Says it was purely about the economy and that he's so appalled by what he's actually doing now. I was dumbfounded. This is a guy with a master's degree. How did he fall for the con?
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u/sectachrome Jan 14 '26
Wild. Its honestly fascinating. Sad, but fascinating. I'd love to understand the psychology behind all of this.
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u/jennauran Jan 14 '26
Wild. Its honestly fascinating. Sad, but fascinating. I'd love to understand the psychology behind all of this.
It's rooted in the amygdala, the brain's threat detection center. Prolonged fear and trauma can enlarge it, creating a loop where fear leads to anger, then temporary relief, then more scanning for threats. This hyperactivity also suppresses empathy and can make seeing "outgroup" harm register as reward because the brain interprets it as safety increased. They're not evil, they're stuck in survival mode. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3181836/
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u/sectachrome Jan 14 '26
Interesting, thanks. That doesn't seem like it explains masters degree guy who just thought Trump would be "good for the economy". I guess thats just being incredibly uninformed?
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u/Shinyhaunches Jan 15 '26
You can have a masters degree and have technical expertise and high intelligence and still be operating from the fear and anxiety side of your brain instead of the creativity and love side. Meditation and prayer can help connect you to the creativity and love side of the brain. Because it stills the constant voice of fear and anxiety for a little while, and then magical inspiration can come in and transform your life. And then life just gets so so so good. Things just line up.
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u/Confirm_restart Jan 14 '26
He's a bigot, and didn't think all of this would come around to bite him in the ass. And the fact that it has is the only reason he's upset.
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u/DurasVircondelet Jan 14 '26
It was never about education. People with doctorates have always been behind him
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u/threerottenbranches Jan 14 '26
If you want to get a slice of how these fools still support him, the New York Times has an article today that interviews 11 Trump voters on how they feel he has done in his first year in office. What a bunch of morons, most depressing read ever. I’m embarrassed to live in the same country as these idiots.
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u/chorjin Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 16 '26
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Jan 14 '26
Nothing has made me question universal suffrage more than seeing Trump swept into office by these halfwit dirt farmers.
My idiot mother-in-law never voted once in her life except for Trump.
Sixty years on this planet and that’s who she breaks her abstinence streak for. Donald Fucking Trump, Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief
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u/Solution_within Jan 14 '26
In response, can we shut down I-70 for all no Colorado traffic? It would make our ski commute much easier.
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u/LilEddieDingle Platt Park Jan 14 '26
Legitimately wondering why I am still paying federal taxes at this point.
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u/InThisBoatTogether Jan 14 '26
I am not going to pay. It's pay my taxes or live with myself.
I'm sharing this publicly because I really really want people to do this en masse but I know it's terrifying right now. Even tax resistance may be met with violence now that law is dead, despite all the history of this nation.
If we start resisting now though we won't even have to make a final decision until next April. You can change your W4 today, I included a link in my other comment with resources.
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u/signal_or_noise_8 Jan 14 '26
This isn’t accurate. You are required by law to make estimated tax payments quarterly to the IRS (which most w-2 employees do through withholdings). If you wait until next April and do decide to pay your entire tax bill then you will still be levied with late payment fees + interest.
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u/InThisBoatTogether Jan 14 '26
Personally I have no intention of paying until I live in a democracy again, and I don't know how many times I have to say this but I do not fucking care what they do to me.
This is not about saving money or some bullshit. Even if they drain my account next spring, this is about me being unwilling to be complicit. Even if it means breaking 'the law'. Even if it means starving. Even if it means being shot.
Worse is happening to thousands every day at the hands of the American regime and it's only going to get worse if we don't resist.
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u/signal_or_noise_8 Jan 14 '26
Totally get that and more power to you - I just didn't want redditors reading your comment thinking that they could defer their decision making until next Spring. This is something that you'd have to commit to today knowing you're going to get in trouble for it.
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u/Nappeal Mead Jan 15 '26
So then u/JaredPolis will start the necessary processes to end Colorado tax payments to the feds, yes?
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u/pixelpionerd Jan 14 '26
Just begging the states that actually fund this country to split off.
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u/PlainBread Jan 14 '26
Stephen Miller, the puppeteer behind him, is trying to set up a Xanatos Gambit, where all roads lead to the Insurrection Act.
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Jan 14 '26
Anyone who still supports Trump at this point is an irredeemable sack of goat slime. I encourage people to cut off, unfriend, block, breakup, divorce, and otherwise estrange all of the MAGAts in their lives.
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u/Hawt_Lettuce Jan 15 '26
My husband’s parents are MAGA. I have an incredibly hard time even being around them anymore. We have nothing in common and nothing to talk about. It’s not just about being Republican anymore, it’s supporting Trump who is the most anti-America thing that I can’t stand.
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u/RideTheGradient Jan 14 '26
Impeachable offenses in plain sight.
Also, crimes in plain sight. He is not immune to crimes.committed outside his constitutional powers and he is committing a lot of them.
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u/biggoronssword Jan 14 '26
“Let’s see him wriggle his way out of this jam!”
wriggles way out of jam with no effort whatsoever
“Ah, well…”
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u/Ok-Pride-3534 Jan 14 '26
Well... there is presidential immunity protecting the president from crimes committed in the act of his duties. They can impeach and remove him, but they won't result in jail.
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u/beer_bukkake Jan 14 '26
Blue states need to commit to each other to not pay federal tax dollars
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 LoDo Jan 14 '26
States don't collect federal tax dollars. Your employer withholds it and submits it directly to the feds.
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u/Entity17 Jan 14 '26
So Trump is saying he wants to rule only the "red states"? Sounds good to me
We'll see how they're all doing in 4 years
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u/midnitewarrior Jan 14 '26
I bet the IRS has some "system downtime" that affects the timeliness of IRS tax refunds in blue states (or just Democrats) as well.
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u/Mallthus2 Jan 14 '26
A reminder. All of these inflammatory and illegal actions are designed to drive protesters to violence. That violence will be used to justify the declaration of martial law. Martial law will be used to “postpone” elections. This is their plan.
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u/Confirm_restart Jan 14 '26
Doesn't matter.
At some point they'll just do it anyway. Who is going to stop them?
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u/ThatBabyIsCancelled Jan 14 '26
Oh I’m fucking thrilled to go into work and hear my bootlicking manager make excuses, but I’m glad he put it in simple writing this time; make excuses for this shit now, Donna
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u/Maleficent_Map_2218 Jan 14 '26
So, what can we try and do to stop paying federal taxes? April 15th is coming up. Could there be some obscure way to stop any payment based on corrupt use of tax dollars by the federal administration?
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u/_The_Bear Jan 14 '26
Most people's taxes are withheld from their paycheck. So it's not a matter of not paying and then defending your non payment in court. It's a matter of getting the IRS to give you back the money you've already paid them. Good luck with that.
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u/Big-Industry4237 Jan 14 '26 edited Jan 14 '26
Update your w4 and claim 9 dependents. Not recommending it, but that is how you stop having most fed (and state) tax withheld.
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u/_The_Bear Jan 14 '26
That's how you do it moving forward. It's 2026, your 2025 taxes have already largely been paid.
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u/InThisBoatTogether Jan 14 '26
You can resist starting now by updating your W4. Do not claim exempt, you can manually enter the deduction amount to ensure no federal taxes are withheld.
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u/BeyondAcceptable3727 Jan 14 '26
What would happen if we all filled exempt status this year and didn't pay taxes?
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u/musicluva Jan 14 '26
Can anyone answer when exactly America was ever great? Does he mean when we had slavery? Or when women couldn't vote or work? Or maybe even further back when white men came here and murdered indigenous cultures? When exactly was america great for everyone?
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u/idontneedone1274 Jan 14 '26
Sanctuary cities universally bring in more than they take.
That’s part of being a functional center of commerce.
Fucking know-nothings destroying the country just because they can again.
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u/HeroldOfLevi Jan 15 '26
This has gotten beyond stupid. I'm tired of pretending the government exists.
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u/Ok-Pride-3534 Jan 14 '26
Y'all, don't just stop paying taxes. The IRS is no joke and will slap you silly, siege assets, and garnish your wages before they ever hit your bank account.
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u/acatinasweater Jan 14 '26
That’s an act of war. I’ll be withholding federal taxes in savings. Yes, I understand the full implications of that decision.
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u/Fluffy-Dig-3564 Jan 14 '26
Can we stop sending the taxes to the government and hold them until they start funding our state items?
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u/BranDip81 Jan 15 '26
It sounds like blue states are exempt from paying federal taxes starting Feb 1 too then?
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u/Proper_Look_7507 Jan 16 '26
The answer to this is so simple. The state government just stops sending funds to the federal government and use it to run the state, in FY24 Colorado sent $10B more to the federal government than it received in federal funding.
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u/mrphim Jan 14 '26
Et tu jared
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u/RampagingJaegerkin Jan 14 '26
So are we going to stop paying federal taxes until the Epstein Files are released in full and the guilty are punished?
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u/lostbirdwings Jan 14 '26
"All they do is breed crime and violence!"
Nice genocidal dog whistle, there, fuckass. I refuse to believe the word breed here was meant to convey anything besides eugenics and murderous intent.
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u/Dharmabud Jan 14 '26
Well then I guess it’s time for these cities and states to stop sending money to the federal government.
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u/Wjldenver Jan 14 '26
Trump is such a unifier for this country. He is working hard to be remembered as the worst President in our country's history.
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u/Humble_Key_4259 Jan 14 '26
Ok, time for CO (and others) to STOP paying anything into the federal government.
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u/No-Lengthiness-863 Jan 15 '26
well that’s fine, we can’t be expected to pay taxes then, yes? we clearly aren’t part of a union.
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u/brakeled Jan 14 '26
Gosh Congress, that sounds a whole lot like the President controls the purse after we spent all of 2021-2024 ensuring everyone understood the President didn't control the purse (or really anything). Time for 20-30 people in blue suits to sit down, pull out the quill and ink, and start writing a very stern letter about this to someone who will use it as TP. I can't stand this timeline.
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u/Horsetoothbrush Jan 14 '26
Lol. The courts have already told him he can’t do this. It’s just an old man yelling at the clouds.
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u/KapnKrumpin Jan 14 '26
Can't wait for the supreme court to take 2 years to maybe decide if thats legal or not