Interesting topic. Are eo really law ?

  • ChucklestheclownOPM
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    22 hours ago

    Maine doesnt send money to the Feds. When you pay federal taxes, you pay them straight to the federal government and not the state. It’s a myth blue states give more than they receive.

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      16 hours ago

      While its nice to never have to back up your claims, but Maine in 2020 paid in 8,097,747,000 and your claim that they would lose out on 6.1 billion means they are paying in about 2 billion more. And I am sure there could still be a stink somehow put in the mix, if they do not benefit from the fed then why make their citizens pay into it.

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        15 hours ago

        States don’t pay federal taxes. The people in the state pay taxes to the federal government.

        As such they cant refuse not to pay taxes to the federal government. They never have that money to hold.

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          4 hours ago

          They pay because they are supposed too, if the state challenges that as there is supposed to be a benefit to being part of the union they could tell the payment processors its ok not to pay that money from our state until this is settled, you know there are numbers these biz’s have to give to say this is the amount from corp/person X Y Z, just put a 0 there. Now weather each corp or person would ask for that to happen is on them. But I know there are many facebook groups out there trying to be sovcits and tax dodging is a rich/corp game, I would see if there isnt a few that do.