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So now DOGE has removed all these costs, will Americans not have to pay any taxes anymore? That's the conservative claim right? That taxes paid for all this stuff and Liberals were taxing everyone super high for it...
...so now taxes drop to zero for EVERYONE? Right?
Best I can do is drop the taxes on the rich. 👉👈🥺
oh, they'll still have to raise taxes on the lower half of earners, strip essential services bare--if they continue to exist at all, and pile on trillions to the national debt for that.
adding debt is 'free money' to them. not like they gotta pay it back..
I enjoyed the “we gotta lower the national debt for our kids” which quickly converted into “we gotta raise the national debt and we’re going to go into more debt” all in the same month.
They are planning on replacing income tax with a sales tax via tariffs. I wish I were kidding.
"They" are also pushing for a cashless society. Having an RFID chip in your hand will get you all your necessities and non participation won't. Mark my words. If someone told me this a few years ago I would have laughed.
Literal revelations. I did not have that on my bingo card
That's what happens when you have a suicidal death cult trying their damnedest to bring about their version of the end of the world.
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Makes sense why Musk wanted X to become the "everything" app, including for mobile payments.
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Yeah seriously what the fuck am I paying taxes for if there’s no government anymore?
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I like taxes like I like my Costco membership. I get a better deal if I go in with others and buy in bulk. Even if I don’t use all the same goods and services as others.
Getting rid of corruption and grifters siphoning value out of a system is a much better goal than “saving money”
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Why would you say "half" when you could say "500"?
500 Billion Dollars.
Doesn't half a trillion sound like more than 500 billion? Even though 500 billion is already a lot?
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A trillion is larger than a billion, so half a trillion is a more rage bait headline.
Humans can’t fathom the vast distances of space. How are we going to fathom a trillion dollars?
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IN A MONTH.
4 years of months left to go.
Maybe next time people can get off their fat fucking asses and vote. Or, if you did vote, maybe vote more intelligently next go around.
Ok, fine, libertarians, you won. I don’t have to pay my taxes now, right?
Thats the fun thing with fascist governments, before you'd get a fine and asked to pay back on a payment plan, and maaaybe get jail time if you reaally went out of your way to not pay your taxes year after year.
Now they can just come get ya in the middle of the night and throw you in jail for any number of reasons, not paying your taxes, being one of them. Oh and then maybe get deported because they took your ID's and passport and when your family members throw a stink and demand you released because you're a born and raised US citizen, oops, they can't find you in the system.
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Tomorrow: IRS has been fired.
No because IRS is helping capture immigrants
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They're very efficient at destroying the country.
He also lost nearly a trillion dollars for Tesla. Tells the Tesla employees to keep their stock, hinting at how great things are and how much better they will be soon, and then the entire c-suite sells off around a hundred million in stock...
Elmo really is the best of all humans... At evaporating the wealth of others
I've said this for nearly s decade now, Elmo is a lyoni scammer who got lucky, that is all
“He got lucky” is another way to also say that, as terrible as he is at everything he does, including hiding it, the people who give him literally anything are always clamouring to prove just how stupid they can be by simping for him at every turn.
That too.
The guy is (well, was) charming, in his weird ways, and he really does have a quality to somehow convince people of all the lies he's spouting.
Beyond that, he also got incredibly lucky
Was he ever? Really his only thing was being a nerd, and we thought he was at least vaguely cool for the whole fast electric vehicle thing, but it took barely any time for it to come out that actually he’s both bad at being a nerd and a huge liar about how involved he really was with Tesla. He’s been poison for soooo long now, I literally have no idea how anyone falls for it these days.
It’s not skill, there are just that many people who are that stupid.
This was always the plan.
This needs to be bigger news on the mainstream channels, but you know it wont be.
I'm so tired of this shit.
They all need to be jailed.
Hanged by their bootstraps
Hmm, I wonder where it went /s
Correction - they efficiently lost half a trillion dollars for the USA
Lets see how long it takes them to turn US Treasury Bonds from their AAA+++ (or whatever) status down to D.
"Lost"... yeah, "lost" it in their bank account.
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