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maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Venmo, PayPal users can now send money to the US government to help pay down $36.7T national debt

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Venmo, PayPal users can now send money to the US government to help pay down $36.7T national debt

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maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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  • chunes@lemmy.world
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    For those who didn’t read the article:

    The donation program has existed since 1996, with a total of $67.3 million contributed — an amount that remains negligible compared to the federal debt.

    The only new thing is more convenient donation methods.

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    How is this real?

    We’ve gone off the rails

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    Better to just burn the money; at least you can keep warm that way, maybe cook some hot dogs.

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    Wouldn’t it be more effective to make the wealthy and corporations pay tax?

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      Blasphemy!

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        Right? How dare them?

      • crank0271@lemmy.world
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        Worse - socialism, and possibly Marxism!

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        Are there any women here today??

        • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          All i said was “that meal was good enough for Jehovah…!”

          • pdxfed@lemmy.world
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            I’m so saddened I got down voted for my life of Brian quote from uncouth mouth breathers who didn’t recognize it.

            • GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              Don’t let the uncouth mouth breathers get ya down…!

    • mateofeo85@piefed.social
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      Straight to jail!

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    Shit! I want to donate but I blew all of my money on Trump’s recent trip to Scotland.

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org
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      Just wait a bit until his NFT takes off

  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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    Can’t buy yaoi on steam, but this is somehow totally acceptable and inoffensive.

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    I will never help pay down the national debt willingly. The 1% did it, so they can pay it back.

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      The debt of the nation are the income and assets of the 1%. They don’t want the debt to disappear.

      • ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world
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        One of the most astute comments I’ve ever read.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      I don’t think that is the case

      It has more to do with 50-100 years of reckless spending

      • pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world
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        And what class is usually in control of the government?

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    So the US tax code is switching to a “Pay what you want” model?

    Rich people: “Switching?”

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      Ultra Rich: “Pay?”

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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      Honestly it would be cool if Americans could choose how their money is used. Have a base tax plus you choose 3 programs out of 10.

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        When I was a kid, I assumed that was how it worked. When I found out it wasn’t, my reaction was something like, “then what even is a democracy?”

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          “and to the republic for which it stands”

          Not a democracy : /

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    THAT"S NOT EVEN HOW THE FUCKING US DEBT WORKS!!! They owe YOU!! YES YOU!!! that money! You know your fucking income tax?? They are literally borrowing money from you for free and pay you back when you ask for it back with FORMS. You are literally letting them double dip, even TRIPLE dip your shit WITHOUT INTEREST. YOU ARE PAYING GRIFTERS through this dipshitted idea!!! You want to help pay the debt? Buy a fucking bond and let it mature! I’m losing my shit. Fuck this. I’m out. Don’t know where, probably to bed, but I’m out.

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      That is not how that works at all…

      They are in debt because for decades the government kept spending without bringing in tax money to cover it. They borrowed from other countries which creates dept.

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        That is partially correct. The US Debt is a loan composed of marketable and non-marketable treasury securities which includes public debt (what I lost my shit about) and intergovernmental debt (money spent to function as a government). It’s not a credits and debits system like you put money into your checking account to cover an expenditure. The US has been in debt since its founding. It’s not a decades old problem more like a centuries old thing. No country on this planet has zero debt.

        In this post of taking money directly as a “donation” they are hiding the fact congress and the current moron president in charge are absolutely completely irresponsible with dividing up the collected revenue to make the payment on those loans especially with the passing of the “Big Beautiful Bill (shit sandwich)”. They’re redirecting revenue collected into the pockets of billionaires, and their pet projects (OpenAI), while persuading people it’s a boogyman (immigrants, social programs, the weather, etc) causing the massive swelling up of the US Debt. These idiots also use boogyman excuses to steal more money for already funded public programs paid for by you and the supreme court enables it. All three branches are completely fucking us on this deal and they have the audacity to ask for more. This is why I am pissed off.

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        Debt*

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      You are willingly agreeing to pay them that money ahead of time for your ease. It has always been an option to not pay it until filing season.

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        This is why you use “withholdings” on your paycheck. It’s really shitty that you have to figure out the sweet spot with that and can totally screw yourself if you do it wrong, but that’s the option we have to not let the government borrow money for free. At least as an individual and not a company. You’re kinda screwed on taxes if you run a small business.

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        Try telling that to basically any decently sized company.

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          Companies don’t deserve the right. They’re not individuals, they don’t even pay enough taxes as it is

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            My comment was asking along the lines of companies not giving the employee the choice in having taxes deducted or not.

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              My company offers it and we’re worth billions. I’m surprised others don’t

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            Comapnies dont have that right. Companies are required to pay quarterly estimated taxes, and are fined if they are found to have underpaid on those estimates.

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    That sounds just like taxes, but with extra steps.

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      Except you already pay taxes this is just to bleed the poor dry faster, qnd drip barely anything towards the debt so they can claim the finances are fine, to keep the real government happy, investors.

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        Those races are currently slated to secret illegal police

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        It is voluntary

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    Might as well start a GoFundMe at this point. I heard people nowadays will throw tons of money at fascists.

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      I heard people nowadays will throw tons of money at fascists.

      I’d gladly drop my entire net worth on Trump and all his cronies heads…as long as I am allowed to convert it all to pennies first.

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      The news is basically free Only Fans where I get to see Americans get fucked by their government.

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    I mean, they do have a voting block that regularly donates to televangelists… Those extra private jets have to come from somewhere.

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      I think those donations were from decades ago. Apparently the likes of Copeland’s “church” needs staff to bring boomers to the front so it looks like loads on tv

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    I’m pretty sure they’re already getting 30% from my gross. Plus I somehow owe them an additional few grand every year.

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      Speaking of, anyone else find it funny (read blatantly obvious) that you cant choose a tax amount this year on your W4? Used to be able to select withholding amount, now its just “We’ll figure it out for you”. I bet they were afraid of everyone marking 0 this year.

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    US government loan forgiveness 🤣

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    i would pay for a exclusive, patron only, early access to the Epstein files, no gimmicks

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      Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.

      https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)

      https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80

      Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac

      Here’s the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/

      —————————other Epstein Information

      https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.

      Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo

      Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Epstein and Israel both hired lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who says he’s building ‘legal dream team’ to defend Israel in court and on internationally | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid

      Epstein Docs: https://ia600705.us.archive.org/21/items/epsteindocs/

      Epstein Bribes/Payments: 1 BILLION+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7IrEi-ybzs

      —————————other Trump information:

      Here’s trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY

      Trump’s promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”

      Trump’s modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/

      A good summary of Trump-Epstein timeline: https://thepresidential.medium.com/we-have-been-gaslit-about-donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-for-four-years-fbda67c20f75

      • ⁠Much of this info can also be found on: https://theepsteindocs.com/

      Feel free to do your part and spread this info around so it is never “lost”.

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