Just hypothetically, if a state decided to stop receiving money from the federal government as well as intercepting and/or stopping federal income tax payments, could they do it? What might the consequences be?
Please be respectful so that rule 5 doesn’t get broken.
No, businesses directly pay the federal government. More insidiously, it’s impossible to opt out if you’re employed full time; you have to be self employed to get to decide when/if/how much tax you send the federal government.
Apparently before 1943, people paid taxes individually once a year. Then a law was passed requiring their employers to do it regularly instead without their consent.
Could a state order all businesses operating in that state to stop paying taxes?
Nope. What they could do is tax corporations that collect them at 100% of whatever they collect on behalf of the federal government and then have a state stimulus payment equal to what was collected.
Now that would be a sight to behold!
That would mean that the corporations basically paid people’s taxes for them, right? Wouldn’t that just get factored into salaries?
