As an American I am appalled. As a New Yorker I am infuriated.
New York should demand return of Congressionally authorized funds, with interest. And we should begin to think about how to create a federal tax strike. Right now employers withhold federal taxes on paychecks. I wonder if there is a way to decouple that so it doesn’t automatically go to federal coffers. Probably not easy, but maybe the state of New York could interpose itself somehow between employers and the federal government, holding that tax money in trust and indemnifying employers (1/2)

@jaykuo

Question: is this legal?
Getting ready for a financial crises and/or tax revolt.

1. Ask your employer to be paid in cash.

2. Tell your employer that you will be taking responsibility for your own remittances personally.

3. As long as you make your remittances on time, is there anything in the law that requires your employer's payroll department to function as a middleman & facilitate tax collections?

Especially since Musk's DOGE goons gained the access to reach into ...

1/2

2/2

... anyone's bank account and remove money on a whim without notification.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-doge-new-york-fema-b2697262.html

You have no guarantee that your employer can continue paying for your health benefits or placing funds in your IRA.

Musk can take money out of anyone's bank, in a fit of pique

What Musk is doing will lead to a financial crash.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Interbank_networks

Bank runs may occur, or failures of financial transaction processing & interbank networks like STAR, SUM or PULSE.

Get cash.

‘Highway robbery’: NYC comptroller accuses Musk of stealing $80m from city bank account

The Trump administration snatched back from the city’s bank account $80 million appropriated by Congress to help house migrants

The Independent

@Npars01 @jaykuo consider exchanging your USD to EUR as fast as possible.

Have your passport ready.

@Npars01
I wonder if this opens up a State criminal charge?

@Npars01 @jaykuo depends on the juristiction.

  • In Germany it would be illegal in any employee-employer relationship...

@kkarhan @Npars01 @jaykuo But Germany isn’t in the midst of a fascist takeove—

…nevermind…

@JustinDerrick @Npars01 @jaykuo Germans at least get their asses out on the streets and to the ballout boxes against facist scum!

The fact that Trump didn't get 2A'd yet is a sign of silent consent!

#sarcasm

@kkarhan @JustinDerrick @jaykuo

30% of US voters have authoritarian & anti-democracy leanings.

It's been that way for over a century.

Folks who believe women, POC, & immigrants are "too uppity" & need to learn their "place".

Folks who believe it's their job to bring about the "end of days".

Opportunists ripping people off for a buck.

"Fossil fuels forever!" rubes

Secret aristocrats who want slavery & the worst parts of the 19th century back again

@Npars01 @JustinDerrick @jaykuo By comparison, @fesonline 's studies come to 15%-25% with a sizeable dataset...