Someone’s doing the happy hunny dance…

Nah, y’all should accept delivery then refuse to pay. Give him a taste of his own medicine.

So step up the game already, Canada. Become a threat to US Sovereignty. Make a real offer for the blue states to join and be willing to protect them with military force when Trump retaliates. Enact an American refugee program to bring the best and the brightest across your borders. Get Newsom, Whitmer, Pritzker and Walz to the table and start making real deals.

Because as a Californian, I’d rather be a Canadian on the side of democracy and justice than an American on the side of fascism.

i actually disagree here, for a couple of different reasons. First, the sales tax is a regressive tax on the poor, and it will directly help lower income communities while positively changing their buying habits.

Second, reducing the tariff impact directly increases overall economic activity. For instance, that Canadian lumber is still going to be taxed when it’s sold as a dresser made by an Washington woodworker - it just means that the woodworker isn’t paying as much of a tariff to bring the raw materials into the country. This means that overall sales tax revenue goes up because its less expensive to do business.

Third, in terms of specifics (on primarily a West Coast basis) regarding potential lost revenue, California’s loss could be offset by repealing Prop 13 - we have very low property taxes as a result of this Reagan era law, and bringing it more in line with real property values could bring in billions from our wealthiest (and we have a lot of wealthy landowners in CA). Washington (to my knowledge) doesn’t have property tax - bringing on one could similarly offset the revenue loss. Oregon, conversely, doesn’t have sales tax, so in their case it might be more an issue of funding state rebates for allied countries - for instance, a reduction on property taxes for new homes built with allied country sourced materials.

All this being said, the real solution to the government revenue program for social programs in the face of a lawless fascist federal government is for the blue states to start collecting federal income tax directly from their citizens, paying for the programs themselves, and then providing the remainder to the federal government if they’ve been meeting their duty under the Constitution. However, this step would be the prelude to real civil war, so it’s likely a bridge too far for our current political leaders on the left.

Californian here. Thank you. Keep up the heat. Those of us on the inside fighting for what’s right need your help in putting as much pressure on these assholes as possible.

I think it might be time for those of us in the blue states to offer a reciprocal sales tax break to our Canadian, European, and Mexican allies to offset the tariff idiocy. If CA nixed it’s sales tax for “Allied Countries”, that’s roughly 10% we could trim the tariff impact by. If it’s reciprocal, then it could be a way to mitigate Trump’s effect on our shared financial interests. I’d be more than willing to vote for this.