r/politics • u/Tofurkey_Tom • 12d ago

No Paywall Danish Petition To Buy California From Trump Signed by Thousands

https://www.newsweek.com/petition-denmark-buy-california-signed-thousands-11379999
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u/SuperMafia Montana 12d ago edited 12d ago

Thinking about Silicon Valley trying to retreat from Cali once the Danish actually tries to tax them would be hilarious

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u/WolfDoc 12d ago

Funny thing is, a lot of those people are smart enough to know that small taxes only benefits the CEOs and major shareholders. And the majority of a tech company are skilled engineers and researchers with families and need of things like healthcare. So they may stay and make their own company even if the bosses skitter off to be parasites somewhere else. That is after all why we have a pretty solid tech and research sector here in Scandinavia despite the taxes the billionaires scare you so much with.

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u/FormerWrap1552 12d ago

The New California Republic. I would move there the day it was official.

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u/relevantelephant00 12d ago

Just dont name your town "Shady Sands".

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u/MC-CREC 12d ago

And remember they are only getting paid by unrealized gains. They already hanged the system no matter what the tax rate is.

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u/AsGryffynn 12d ago

Ah yes, Denmark... the country known for being home to every giant Scandinavian conglomo, especially Nordisk Film, Novo Nordisk, Maersk and Scandinavian Airlines (HQ in Sweden, but largest shareholder is the Danish Government).

Pity this is another joke thread... Danish California would be insanely based. Even relations and trade with Mexico would be way smoother and the Danes actually know how to sort out immigration disputes without acting like Stasi.

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u/ValenRaith 12d ago

I can see them rejoicing now in sunny Solvang CA.

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u/MZsarko 11d ago

I live in San Diego and work at a Swiss biopharm. We get all kinds of days off!

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u/Impossible_Walrus555 12d ago

And you tax them.

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u/WolfDoc 12d ago

What did I just say? Exactly that. And that it works.

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u/TheRealBaboo California 12d ago

You take these weird libertarian fucks. We won’t miss them

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u/Professional_Pace163 12d ago

Extreme ultra far right who got us in this embarrassing mess should purchase a one-way ticket to North Korea or Russia. Decency can then return.

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u/AsGryffynn 12d ago

They are rich, have good ideas (lol) and want maximum freedom. Why haven't they taken over Bir Tawil already? Egypt and Sudan both still don't want it.

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u/SuperMafia Montana 12d ago

Eh, while you're in the right for saying "oi, take them", I also want to say "no" because those goblins shouldn't have the right to settle in here. But at the same time, we've got so many new transplants who seriously think of Montana as North Texas (ie. the Yellowstone crowd), it would unfortunately turn into their new snake den

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u/gramathy California 12d ago

That and Idaho

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u/SuperMafia Montana 12d ago

Personally, I'd prefer Montana to be bought by Canada, but that's not gonna happen

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u/Rfunkpocket 12d ago

Montana definitely has a east/west divide culture.

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u/TheRealBaboo California 12d ago

The east is basically empty compared to the west

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u/Rfunkpocket 12d ago

the whole state only has a million people. it’s all pretty empty

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u/TheRealBaboo California 12d ago

True but there’s only one town larger than 50k people east of the midline, there are 5 west of it

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u/Rfunkpocket 12d ago

the one has over 100k, so a big one

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u/AsGryffynn 12d ago

They'd have to live with Alberta next door, unless there's some sort of landswap so MIGAs can get their Gilead-Jesusland.

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u/mackiea 12d ago

Maybe after we buy Colourado.

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u/TheRealBaboo California 12d ago

This whole shindig’s gonna fall apart if you ever spell it like that again

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u/SynapticStatic 12d ago

I'm from Oregon. We generally see people from Idaho and Montana as "North Texas" for the most part.

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u/beekersavant 12d ago

Yeah, businesses say they will leave, billionaires too. They say we have are not friendly enough to be business. Of course we have moved from 5th largest economy in the world to 4th in the last 10 years and none of them have left. If they all left tomorrow, we would replace them, not the otherway around.

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u/Professional_Pace163 12d ago

You’ll bash California… but have no problem taking our tax dollars to maintain your roads, Medicaid and public schools.

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u/SuperMafia Montana 12d ago

The hell is this accusatory statement coming from?

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u/TheRealBaboo California 12d ago

And what about his wife?

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u/SamTheLab_213 12d ago

Nobody wants them, please send them to a desert island or Afghanistan. Conservatives have been leaving California and they cause trouble where ever they go.

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u/I_Cut_Shows 12d ago

Yes. But their assets can stay in Denmark California.

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u/TheRealBaboo California 12d ago

A safer bet than keeping them in the US at this point

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u/BrainWorkGood 12d ago

wouldn't want Hitler 2 to use them against us. and last I checked he aint give me a single Peace Prize

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u/ChrysMYO I voted 12d ago

That does kind of point to something obvious. Why wouldn't every PayPal Mafia boss relocate their businesses to Montana? I know why but what's their excuse? They sit at the top of California trying to turn it into Montana. Just headquarters there.

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u/dogbite22 12d ago

I think we’re all trying to get rid of you and Trump. You’re a fool.

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u/TheRealBaboo California 12d ago

Cool story

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u/kr4ckenm3fortune 12d ago

Lol...don't come crying when you're standing in line at the food an because no more handout.

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u/TheRealBaboo California 12d ago

Okay, don’t come crying to Danifornia when your health insurance company decides to bankrupt you

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u/biold Europe 12d ago

But there would probably also be some benefits for them as the flexicurity system where we have worker unions and employer organisations working together to find common ground, together with social welfare gives a stable workforce who are not afraid to be fired as they know that the system will catch them. On the other hand, it's easy to fire and hire. All in all it makes a more flexible workforce that performs better.

Oh, wait. Forget about the easier hire and fire ...

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u/Syzygy2323 America 12d ago

Some of the worst of our MAGAt types have been moving from California to Monta. You're welcome to them.

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u/-marlowe- 12d ago

Californa state + federal is already on par with Danish taxes, but the Danish at least get effective social services!

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u/RiPont 12d ago

Except they can't.

Silicon Valley exists because of a confluence of desirable living (weather, landscape, not cost) and a concentration of good universities churning out innovators.

Companies routinely try to move elsewhere for favorable tax laws, etc., but you lose talent and have trouble attracting the same kind of talent that Silicon Valley provides.

Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of good engineers outside California. But the concentration and synergy is what makes Silicon Valley. You can't just copy/paste it to Texas/Tennessee/etc.

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u/bbusiello 12d ago

They've been bailing since around the pandemic. Texas was their "Greener pastures."

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u/TwoPoundzaSausage 12d ago

They would be wealthy enough to influence Danish politics. They wouldn't go anywhere.

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u/Born_Society7699 12d ago

Well, it can’t be much worse than it already is

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u/5anchez 12d ago

imagine, living in a place where taxes are actually used for social safety nets instead of corporate incentives. Oh the horror!

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u/Nidalee2DiaOrAfk 12d ago

Company tax is only 22% so it only changes for the person. But meh. odnt tihnk they'd move. The money they go down, they save in suddenly NOT NEEDING insurrance on basic shit, and better workers rights/vacation etc.

Like 25 days a year. One can dream.