A middleman is how this works. California could create a state-run federal tax authority and require all taxes to be paid to the state authority. The authority can then remit (or not) taxes to the IRS.
Or the state should just secede, ideally taking the entire western seaboard with it. Annexation by Canada or Mexico would also be good options.
Federal law currently requires (nearly) every individual to file a tax return with the IRS, and it requires every business to withhold money from payroll and remit to IRS with appropriate bookkeeping.
Even if California decreed all of that money should be paid to its new agency instead of to the feds, anyone doing so would be individually breaking federal law, and the gestapo would be sent after them. It’s a nice idea but I don’t see how it could work, short of secession (which has its own problems).
A middleman is how this works. California could create a state-run federal tax authority and require all taxes to be paid to the state authority. The authority can then remit (or not) taxes to the IRS.
Or the state should just secede, ideally taking the entire western seaboard with it. Annexation by Canada or Mexico would also be good options.
Federal law currently requires (nearly) every individual to file a tax return with the IRS, and it requires every business to withhold money from payroll and remit to IRS with appropriate bookkeeping.
Even if California decreed all of that money should be paid to its new agency instead of to the feds, anyone doing so would be individually breaking federal law, and the gestapo would be sent after them. It’s a nice idea but I don’t see how it could work, short of secession (which has its own problems).