21h ago

Trump is really asking people to Venmo to pay off the national debt

newrepublic.com /post/198329/venmo-pay-national-debt

The Treasury Department wants you to Venmo it to help with the $36.65 trillion national debt.

On Wednesday, NPR’s Jack Corbett pointed out that there was an option on Pay.gov, the Treasury’s online payment platform, where Americans could go to throw their Venmo dollars at the gargantuan national debt. You can also use PayPal. The page is titled “Gifts to Reduce the Public Debt.”

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2d ago

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

newrepublic.com /post/198329/venmo-pay-national-debt

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3d ago

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

newrepublic.com /post/198329/venmo-pay-national-debt

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Be a billionaire, get a few of those No Preset Spending Limit cards (Amex centurion), charge $36.65T spread across those NPSL cards, then fuck off to your private island. Then watch as the world burns 😈
Shit posting aside …
The Treasury has run this program for years, and people have donated $67.3 million since 1996 …
What’s the benefit? Tax deduction?
Any regular person throwing money into this needs a mental evaluation with emergency protection order.
- South park beat you to this punchline after the 2008 crash lmaoo
  Edit: for your pleasure lol

Man you folks love that trickle up. Just passed tax breaks for the rich and now the poors gonna fix the debt to save daddy’s country.
Maybe check your couch for the money.

"Please pay cause my rich friends can't afford to give anything."

If every man, woman, and child would just donate a humble $90,000+ we'd have this debt paid off in no time
- Only 400,000 people would have to donate their entire salary for a year. Thats barely a small town in central Ohio. The debt crisis is basically over if we do that. #ProblemSolved
  
  I don't think that math works. If we generously assume each of those 400,000 make $100,000 per year then 400,000 x $100,000 - $40,000,000,000. That's only $40 billion dollars. First poster was closer. To get $36,650,000,000,000, all 340,000,000 million Americans would need to pay $107,794.12 each.

Like my dealer says, "I don't front folks, they never pay you back."

Strangely, I don't feel my priorities are reflected in any budget passed during my lifetime, and so I don't feel the need to donate. I say "strangely", as I tend to follow Socrates' thoughts on the matter. Just not here. Guess my limits are low.

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