I don't think 100% tax is high enough
this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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should've made it a 177.6% tax, at least
New York State has proposed a similar bill, lol
Yep, also California
Yeah, someone else mentioned that, and that comment got way more upvotes. Which I thought was… Cute?
It’s not a competition, I just thought it was kind of funny
Anyway, I hope that, over the next couple of days, every state proposes, a bill as such!
Eh, serves me right for replying from my inbox instead of checking the thread first to see if someone else had said the exact same thing 15 minutes before I did
And California!
Apparently, and quite fortunately, it seems to be going around.
I’m not much of a trendy person, but this is a trend that I can definitely get behind!
A Traitor Tax
I think the governors need to start thinking about holding federal tax revenue back, en masse.
State's can tax recipients all they want, but if these assholes are paying foreign entities, then what? That money is gone.
How will they know who got the payouts though? Unless the government outs them I thought there were no requirements on reporting where the money is going?
That's a good question. On the plus side, if they don't voluntarily report it and the state does find out, that's tax fraud against the state, which the president can't pardon away.