Posted on 05/28/2026 12:04:07 PM PDT by Beowulf9
SACRAMENTO, California — Gavin Newsom vowed Wednesday to tax any payouts that California residents receive from a $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that Donald Trump secured in a settlement with his own Justice Department, as Democratic lawmakers in states across the country ramp up efforts to counter the president on the measure.
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Gee, $1.776 billion is just a little more than Osama Obama flew to Iran in the middle of night so they could continue to build nukes and the ICBMs needed to deliver them to the US.
What rationality is there behind that? It seems that the more President Trump finds ways to accomplish things without tax monies the more Democrats pitch tantrums over it.
They are destructive and evil.
the same rationality which comes from states that continue to tax tips despite a Federal Bill that says no taxes on tips...
Yet people will still vote for these aholes...
U-Haul the big beneficiary
Newsom wants to do for America what he’s done for California.
Sounds like the kind of tyranny that the second amendment is meant to address.
what’s the Joker up to now
No Kings but Dictators are just fine.
Democrats are quick to scream dictator, but they are always the ones acting like one.
100 percent tax rate?
State theft. Clear and simple.
Good to be the king. I guess. 🤔😊👍
Newsom wants to do for to America what he’s done for to California. FIFY.
When one makes it to the Presidency, you get the dictaster-in-chief.
Bill of Attainder, 100% unconstitutional
Completely unconstitutional. You cannot single out a subset of people for clearly punitive tax purposes.
“ anti-weaponization fund” is such a stupid Title. It describes nothing. Democrats are so good with words, even though they’re dishonest. Republicans, only the other hand, are terrible with words. How can a man who came up with the amazingly wonderful motto “make America great again” use the word “weaponization”. No one knows what it means, much less how it is being specifically used here.
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