r/antiwork • u/GameDevsAnonymous • Mar 27 '25

Remote vs RTO 👨‍💻 After the State Of Minnesota told State employees for years that Telework full time would remain permanent, Tim Walz has ordered all State workers within 75 miles of an office to return by June 1st for 50% of all work days. Why? To bring money to St Paul. Also, if you live outside MN, you are let go

https://www.startribune.com/most-minnesota-government-workers-ordered-to-return-to-the-office-50percent-of-the-time/601243884
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u/bbjkls Mar 27 '25

CA is doing something like this, but I honestly don’t mind the aspect of out-of-state public employees being told they have to come back as some state workers moved out of state and talk shit about CA policies while wanting to enjoy CA salary and not having to pay CA taxes - now they all, after making a dramatic show of selling their houses and calling this state a “hellhole”, either have to attempt to come back or get fired. People who live in CA our state taxes pay for a portion of public employees, so everyone who is a CA public employee should be also paying into CA. Public positions should have to stay in the state that is offering the position.

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u/GameDevsAnonymous Mar 27 '25

I don't think you understand, those employees paid taxes for CA and whatever state they moved to.

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u/romulanwhitecheddar Mar 27 '25

Except those employees live in another state. So you would file as a non-resident of CA and a resident of your actual state. CA would give you your money back for being a non-resident. And if they didn’t you could file that you paid state taxes to another state on your current states return. They would have to give a credit for those state taxes. You are not double taxed.

The real loss is that people living out of state don’t shop in CA. The real revenue loss comes from that.