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[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 34 points 3 weeks ago

Sooo... Voluntary extra taxes? You know, you could just tax the mega wealthy. Although something tells me some of this would go to them anyway with how easily they seem to throw that shit around.

I shouldn't be mad since it's mostly going to be people that are incredibly stupid that are going to do this, but I would prefer those said people were at least buying stuff that'll put the money back into the economy instead of having it disappear into the ether. I'm not an economist, but i bet that even if every average American that is middle class or below put in all their money it still wouldn't even put a dent in it.

[-] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

I saw elsewhere that if every man, woman, and child in America paid in $12.1k, we could eliminate the $4T Trump just added to the debt.

[-] Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 weeks ago

That's embarrassing. Not that that's new lately. But yeah.

[-] Wytch@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 weeks ago

Great, an invitation to piss into a hurricane.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

It’s a trickle fetish.

[-] Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz 9 points 3 weeks ago

Bet that money doesn't go towards the national debt

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

They're to fund the ICE concentration camps to lock you up in.

[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

The Treasury has run this program for years, and people have donated $67.3 million since 1996

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

We have paid for ~0.000203030303% of the national debt. \o/

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

Send a request to Theil Bezos and Musk. Done and done.

[-] foggianism@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Why doesn't he ask his billionaire friends?

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

He's asking people to pay off the national debt that his Big Bogus Bill is increasing by 3.4 trillion dollars?!

If every man, woman, and child paid $10,000 they would only cover the cost of his bill. TEN THOUSAND dollars each and it would make up for the bill passed this year.

Then you've got the already existing $29 trillion in debt already owed. Get your fuckin wallets out everyone. Trump's grifting again(still).

[-] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[-] Skydancer@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Next up: Klarna

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

It's his personal Venmo, he'll make sure the money gets to the right place, you can trust him.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Steve Bannon was pardoned for fraud for pocketing the "donate to build the wall" stuff. Wouldn't be surprised if this all just goes to Trump Jr's cocaine fund.

It will be funny to see if somebody does the "if you care about the national debt so much, why not pay it yourself?" line.

[-] WhiteRabbit@lemmy.today 2 points 3 weeks ago

Can they reduce my national debt instead?

[-] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yet another distraction from Trump being a serial child molester.

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago

The debt is more than $100k per person. The median net worth is $192k. People would have to sell large parts of what they own to make any significant dent in that number during his administration.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

What's the median net worth without the 10 richest people, because they obviously don't have to contribute

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Ragnor@feddit.dk 1 points 3 weeks ago

Median, not *mean/average.

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

He would have asked Elon, but they're not friends anymore.

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah bro I'll just venmo you five trillion dollars no biggie

[-] Kaerkob@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Can you just cover all 37 trillion for us? Thanks

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