Republicans asked a federal court to block newly approved maps in California that were designed to flip as many as five House seats for Democrats.
Republicans asked a federal court to block newly approved maps in California that were designed to flip as many as five House seats for Democrats.
Typically the state government is the largest single employer in any given state. If California withheld all their public employees’s federal income tax, Uncle Sam would feel that pretty sharply, especially if joined by New York and New England.
The payroll system is fully privatized. California bureaucrats don’t control it, they just submit information to private banks and payment processors.
Again, you don’t understand how the IRS actually functions. Or how HR and payroll function. There isn’t a big toggle under the governor’s desk that stops W-2 withholdings for every state employee.
If you tried to do this inside a single company, you’d be setting off alarms in whatever bank or accounting firm you contracted to process paychecks. Even just an individual trying to zero out withholdings with get a dirty look from HR and a polite deny.
The ‘big toggle under the governors desk’ is sending law enforcement to all the banks and forcing them to reroute all money that would otherwise go to the IRS. Comply or go to jail and we close your bank down for a couple days and cost you billions for good measure.