Posted on 05/28/2026 6:50:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that his administration will seek to impose a 100 percent tax on any California residents who receive money from President Donald Trump’s newly created $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund.
Speaking to reporters, Newsom denounced the fund as a “slush fund” and pledged to block Californians from financially benefiting from it.
“Anyone from California that receives any of those funds, we want to tax 100 percent of those proceeds,” Newsom said during a press conference.
“He pardoned all of those folks that were beating up cops and absolved them, providing them 1.776 billion dollars,” Newsom said. “So not only do you get a pardon, you get rewarded. That’s why this is needed.”
The fund was established as part of Trump’s settlement with the Department of Justice stemming from his lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns.
Trump has described the program as restitution for Americans harmed by what he called politically motivated government actions during the Biden administration.
Last week, Trump defended the fund as compensation for people “badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration.”
Democrats in several blue states are now attempting to block recipients from keeping any payouts tied to the program.
In New York, Democratic Assemblyman Alex Bores introduced legislation that would similarly impose a 100 percent tax on recipients of the fund.
State Sen. Mike Gianaris said Democrats in Albany are pushing to advance the measure before the legislative session ends next week.
“There’s widespread, bipartisan agreement that this is baldfaced corruption at its worst and if we have the ability in New York to combat it by ensuring that none of this money benefits anyone in our state’s borders, I’d expect there’d be widespread support for that idea,” Gianaris said.
Democratic lawmakers in New Jersey are also drafting similar legislation.
State Sen. Andrew Zwicker called the proposal “a brilliant counter move to Trump’s corruption.”
There is not. The state cannot tax the federal government, but can tax federal payments to persons.
Taxes for personal injury cannot be taxed.
Nor can they tax payments for wrongful imprisonment.
The tax is just income tax. They can’t make a special category of income tax for people who make these payments.
Move out of California before getting the money then.
I recall that the last time I voted in CA, there was a list of all the registered voters attached next to the door of the polling place. So that information is public knowledge, but somehow, the federal government isn’t allowed to access it?
Here’s a question...
If CA is so reliably loony lefty, why does Deep State need to steal its elections?
Newsom, Hochul, et alia, can go pound sand.
ROFLMAO! That’s so perfect!
Okay, sure. Let’s remove all immigration airports from California airports so nobody can fly in for the Whirled Cup. Those folks can clear in through Miami and hoof it from there.
Targeting individuals for special treatment a bill of lading.
Bills of attainder are explicitly prohibited by the Constitution (Article I, Sections 9 and 10), which bars both Congress and state legislatures from passing them. This reflects the Founders' concern about legislative overreach and the importance of separating the power to make laws from the power to punish individuals.
The concept originated in English common law, where Parliament would sometimes pass acts condemning individuals — often political enemies — to death or exile without trial. The term "attainder" referred to the legal consequences of being condemned, including loss of all civil rights and the inability to pass property to one's heirs (called "corruption of blood").
“where traveling from one to another is going to an entirely different nation.”
Yep. The nation is self-sorting that way. Soon “papers, please”.
I lived in California decades ago.
I, too, remember those thick lists of registered voters hanging from a pole near the entrance to the voting location.
Good strategy
Equal protection...Don’t think so...Said goodbye to CA after decades of this kind of nonsense...It’s something I highly recommend.
Wouldn’t this fall under a bill of attainder?
Ah, its good to be the king. Right grabem?
Newsom always seems to want to do the wrong thing, so why would this be any different?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Newsime comments and request is illegal.
The 100% tax response is stupid and political, and not making the deal will cost the people more money.
First dime he took from me who be his last, with nothing to lose and pissed off is not somebody you want to create and I am sure there are others that would feel the same. Luckily, I was not wrongly imprisoned nor live is shitafornia.
Mostly because, with the exception of the big blue cities and coastal SoCal in general, there are still a lot of Red voters in California
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