@reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world I agree that isn't how it works. It would be a change but I believe that it's not outside the realm of possibility. Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are big fans of finding emergency powers and using novel legal theories. I think it's high time for governors and state legislators to respond in kind.
The money would go to the state instead of the fed, not stay in a business' account. States have a lot of power, especially when in compact. I think it would only take California and New York doing something like this to really have an effect. Other states joining those two would kneecap the fed.
From my perspective as a business owner it's really just a matter of depositing funds into a different account than the treasury.
Will it be easy? No, surely not. There would be a lot of difficulty in communication, legislation, and even with state's ability to collect taxes there would be work needed to set up collection.
I think this is the response needed for what is turning into the taxation without representation of our generation. We can't sit around and say things can't be done.
