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ByteOnBikes@discuss.online to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Trump Is Really Asking People to Venmo to Pay Off the National Debt

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Trump Is Really Asking People to Venmo to Pay Off the National Debt

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ByteOnBikes@discuss.online to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Isn’t that what DOGE was supposed to do by cutting waste?

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      Lol. Do you do stand-up?

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    So with new tax cuts for billionaires causing a growing national debt this is like giving money to billionaires. I can’t believe there are people dumb enough to do this …

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      was my thought. help pay down the national debt so we have more head room to lower taxes for the wealthy some more.

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    Shitty misleading headline, which implies a shitty misleading news organization. Reading it, I assumed the Orange Dipshit is so desperate to reduce the national debt that the OD is now begging on the streets for a dollar.

    Looking into it, donating to pay off national debt has been a thing for fucking decades. It’s a pretty useless program that spent more over the decades dealing with it than the peasly voluntary taxation it’s pulled in.

    Nonetheless, the OD expanding the program to include Venmo and then a news org shouting “Trump is really asking people to Vennmo to pay off the national debt” implying how they do is misleading and gross.

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    This is the most oniony not the onion I’ve ever seen. This thing reeks of pungent onions.

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    I knew that this existed for a long time. I didn’t know that you can use Venmo or PayPal now. It seems that wasn’t possible in the past. I also knew that money you use for this purpose is probably tax deductible, though only in the same way that a gift to a charity would be: https://dontmesswithtaxes.typepad.com/dont_mess_with_taxes/2010/04/voluntary-payments-to-the-ease-the-public-debt.html

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    Do I get tax credit?

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    Yes, he really is that stupid and so are his followers.

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    They really think Americans are that stupid huh. Imagine getting grifted by the fucking state lmao

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