States collect various taxes, including individual income taxes, sales taxes, corporate income taxes, and property taxes, which they then contribute to the federal government.

States taxes are collected by the states for state uses. Federal taxes are collect by the feds, not the states. States would be hard pressed to commandeer them.

Yes, I wasn't clear While states do not collect federal taxes, they play a crucial role in contributing to federal revenue, through collecting state taxes, which is then redistributed to support various programs and services across the nation.

Point is, if states don't send money from taxes collected statewide to the federal government, the federal government would be hard pressed to redistribute this money across the nation, especially if blue states withheld money.

Except no states pay the federal government. Where are people getting the idea that Sacramento or Albany or any other state government sends money to the feds?

From fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-fin...

I stand corrected

Taxpayers from states send money to the feds, my posts implied state governments paid the money

And taxpayers have almost no recourse when it comes to income taxes. Their bosses aren't going to not send withholdings off to the IRS and the self-employed would either be caught or not noticed if they tried to keep their taxes. It's not just you, I have been seeing this lots of places.

State taxes are collected by the states to use within the state. They do not fund federal programs. (Not counting state contributions to state run programs partially funded by the feds)