Arnold Schwarzenegger on Newsom Suggesting Not to Pay Taxes: The IRS Will Be Coming After You

KIMMEL: “How would you handle Donald Trump in this situation where he is threatening to withhold federal funding from our students, from our schools, from disabled students? We are a state that pays more to the federal government than we get in return from the federal government. Is it realistic, this idea that Governor Newsom has floated, that we would just stop paying them the money that we pay them?”
SCHWARZENEGGER: “Well, it sounds always easy, isn’t it?”
KIMMEL: “It sounds it, but never is.”
SCHWARZENEGGER: “It doesn’t happen because every individual in California pays taxes, pays the state tax, local tax, and pays federal tax. So how are you going to stop them from doing that? Then the IRS is coming after you. Look, I just want everyone to know, this is all dialogue. This is rhetoric. The left going after the right, the right going after the left. I mean, the bottom line is, they should get together, rather than always pointing the finger at each other. They should really get together and solve this problem because that’s what the American people want. They want to have this problem solved.”
(Cheering and Applause)
KIMMEL: “Yeah. Well. It seems like — it seems like our president doesn’t want to have this problem solved. He wants to create problems here in our state.”
SCHWARZENEGGER: “Well, I have to tell you, people always say to me, ‘Oh, my god, what’s going on in America right now?’ All this stuff. And I say to them, I said, ‘Relax, I’ve come over here 1968, where it was a disaster. I mean, even the most fantastic country, but I came over here 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. There were the riots left and right because of the Vietnam War, the protests. Then there was the attack on the Democratic convention in Chicago. Then after that, there was Watergate. The thing went on and on and on. People said, ‘What is going on in America?’ And we got out of that mess. So America will always get out of this mess. And we will get out of this, believe me. This will be solved, this issue. Los Angeles will always be a great city to come to.
(Cheering and Applause)
I’m very, very proud of Los Angeles. And I think the key thing is, is the federal government and the state and the locals work together to solve these problems.”
KIMMEL: “People need to hear that, because people are looking for something positive. I think a lot of people are feeling disheartened, like oh, things are not going to get better, they’re going to get worse.”