• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 days ago

    I’ll skip the dozen obvious reasons why this is comically stupid, but imagine if this strategy did some how significantly reduce the debt - they would just pass another bill giving more tax breaks to billionaires.

    Contributing to this is just like buying something from amazon without receiving the something.

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    8 days 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.

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      8 days 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.

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    8 days ago

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

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    8 days 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.

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    8 days 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).