I bet we could have gotten $160 billion if we made Elon pay his taxes
Daily reminder that everyone in America could have UBI if billionaires just paid what they currently owe in taxes.
Got a reference? Pro-UBI and anti-billionaire as I am, I’ve done the math and I don’t think that checks out. Meaningful UBI has an annual price tag in the trillions, and even if you assume 90%+ top bracket tax rates there aren’t enough billionaires in the US to foot that bill. Other programs would have be discontinued and/or rolled in, and tax rates increased across the board.
There’s enough billionaires that without changing your taxes and mine much you could easily pay for ubi and honestly most perspective social benefit programs.
Not doubting, but do you have a source where I can read more about this?
In the same vane, I can also save by geting rid of my home, car, job, investments, spouse and start eating dirt instead of food. I’d be homeless and misserable. But I’d have no expenses right now. Would it make me wealthier? No. What about later? Again, no. In fact I will quickly get poorer.
He is running the department of shutting down whatever Musk personally dislikes. Enabling corruption, extracting data for hostile foreign interests and loosing the peoples and contrys wealth.
I can also save by geting rid of my home, car, job, investments, spouse and start eating dirt instead of food. I’d be homeless and misserable. But I’d have no expenses right now.
Turns out that the typical life people enjoy in Haiti is the ideal they are going for. Stupid libraries.
And with the money they’re allegedly saving, they’re paying for a foreign prison to torture people without trial
I’m sure this doesn’t even calculate the downstream damages done when agencies like FEMA can no longer do their jobs effectively. But I’m sure some for-profit enterprise will fill the gaps where possible to screw people out of their money.
Cost taxpayers $135 billion so far…
Cost us 135 billion so far, it is going to be much much higher now that they have gutted the IRS and countless investments into our economy. The truth is they are going to cost us tens of trillions of dollars.
I still think they lost more than they cut just in money terms and this is missing costs or overstating savings. The military ads have disappeared that I have been complaining about. Either they met their headcount or realized they were spending to much or they realized they can’t appeal to patriotism with such a treasonous administration. EDITED 2/27 - the ads are back. Looks like they just disapeared for sat 2/26. mentioning because its still creepy to me and I did not want to incorrectly give the impression they stopped.
We’ve already lost something like half a trillion dollars in tax revenue. And that’s just the people Leon Skum fired to stop billionaires from paying taxes. And that’s not even counting the TRILLIONS of dollars the US is going to lose to tarrifs, fucking up our trade relationships, and burning any desire for American manufactures equipment.
There’s a ton of gallows humor in knowing the people that the braindead elected to mAkE aMeRiCa GrEaT aGaIn are going to be responsible for ruining the country. Sucks that it’s going to burn down around my ears, but at least I can find some humor in it I guess.
Per year versus one time cost?
Is there a competition for the dumbest hat slogan somewhere?
Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller.
So not $2 Trillion like they initially said?
I get treason vibes.
That’s still not how you wear a hat, idiot. Go die twice in a tutorial.
Having government turn a profit is a weird way of structuring against billionaires pay taxes. Don’t have to pay for what’s already paid for by other people!
That’s just the monetary cost. They have have cost society far more than that.
