Assemblyman Alex Bores, who represents part of Manhattan, said in a video posted to X that President Donald Trump should not be using “your tax dollars” to reward Jan. 6 insurrectionists and other Trump allies with money from what he called “an illegal slush fund.”
“It’s simple, if you’re a New Yorker and you take from this illegal slush fund, New York state will tax 100% of it,” Bores said in the post on X. “If you storm the Capitol and you take from this slush fund, too bad we’re taking it.”
To accomplish this, Bores is crafting a bill called the Anti-Insurrectionist Act, which is described in a draft memo to the State Assembly as a means of ensuring that “no resident of this State is enriched by what is, in substance, a publicly-funded political payout negotiated between the President and his own Administration.”
“We can’t stop Trump from breaking the law in Washington,” Bores, a Democrat, said in an emailed response to questions from NBC News. “But we can decide that in New York, money you got for attacking American democracy is fully taxable.”
The White House referred a reporter seeking comment on Bores’ proposed bill to the Department of Justice, which did not immediately respond.
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And? He no longer works there.
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I’m going to argue case by case basis. I worked for a bank, hated it and the bank. I needed a job that wasn’t driving me to alcoholism. It was still a shit job and I’m happy to be away from it. That doesn’t make me evil or bad. Not saying this is Alex’s situation and honestly probably in agreement with you. Judge a person’s content more than their profession really.