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[-] TommySoda@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago

Sooo... Voluntary extra taxes? You know, you could just tax the mega wealthy. Although something tells me some of this would go to them anyway with how easily they seem to throw that shit around.

I shouldn't be mad since it's mostly going to be people that are incredibly stupid that are going to do this, but I would prefer those said people were at least buying stuff that'll put the money back into the economy instead of having it disappear into the ether. I'm not an economist, but i bet that even if every average American that is middle class or below put in all their money it still wouldn't even put a dent in it.

[-] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

I saw elsewhere that if every man, woman, and child in America paid in $12.1k, we could eliminate the $4T Trump just added to the debt.

[-] Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz 33 points 1 year ago

Bet that money doesn't go towards the national debt

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

They're to fund the ICE concentration camps to lock you up in.

[-] foggianism@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

Why doesn't he ask his billionaire friends?

[-] Cyv_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 1 year ago

That's embarrassing. Not that that's new lately. But yeah.

[-] Wytch@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 year ago

Great, an invitation to piss into a hurricane.

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 20 points 1 year ago

The debt is more than $100k per person. The median net worth is $192k. People would have to sell large parts of what they own to make any significant dent in that number during his administration.

[-] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 7 points 1 year ago

What's the median net worth without the 10 richest people, because they obviously don't have to contribute

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 6 points 1 year ago
[-] Ragnor@feddit.dk 7 points 1 year ago

Median, not *mean/average.

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

Fair. Though also, english isn't my first language.

[-] Ragnor@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

English is a tertiary language for me. I would say "too", but I don't know if you moved to an English speaking country later in life so it is a secondary language for you. I have lived in Denmark my entire life.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

The median would not stay the same if you removed the ten richest people. It wouldn't decrease as much as the mean, but it would still go down.

[-] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 1 year ago

It might, very very slightly go down. But the way you have to think about a media is this:

Put all 342 million Americans in a single line, sorted by net worth from west to east in increasing order. Find the person standing in the middle, i.e. person 171 million. That's the median net worth.

Now remove the top 10 richest people, i.e. ~~behead the snake~~ politely ask the 10 people standing easternmost to leave the line. Now to find the new median, go back to the original median person and move five to the left. That's the new median.

Most likely, you'd have a negligible amount of change. Maybe a couple of bucks.

ALso note that for this it does not matter just HOW rich the richest persons are.

[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

They are still tasty.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I always have a difficulty remembering the difference between median and medium

[-] Ragnor@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, it isn't called "medium". If I saw someone asking for the medium, I would assume that they mean "the median" instead.

The median is the number that is right in the middle of the distribution, so if you have the data points: 1, 1, 1, 3, 14, 80, and 141, the median is 3.

The mean/average is what you get if you add all the numbers together and divide that by the number of data points. For the above example the sum is 241, and divided by 7 that is approximately 34.3 .

The mode that @Aussiemandeus mentions is the number that appears the most times, so that is 1.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

And mean and mode

[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

The Treasury has run this program for years, and people have donated $67.3 million since 1996

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We have paid for ~0.000203030303% of the national debt. \o/

[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's asking people to pay off the national debt that his Big Bogus Bill is increasing by 3.4 trillion dollars?!

If every man, woman, and child paid $10,000 they would only cover the cost of his bill. TEN THOUSAND dollars each and it would make up for the bill passed this year.

Then you've got the already existing $29 trillion in debt already owed. Get your fuckin wallets out everyone. Trump's grifting again(still).

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Steve Bannon was pardoned for fraud for pocketing the "donate to build the wall" stuff. Wouldn't be surprised if this all just goes to Trump Jr's cocaine fund.

It will be funny to see if somebody does the "if you care about the national debt so much, why not pay it yourself?" line.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It’s a trickle fetish.

[-] Aeri@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Yeah bro I'll just venmo you five trillion dollars no biggie

[-] defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yet another distraction from Trump being a serial child molester.

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Send a request to Theil Bezos and Musk. Done and done.

[-] MelonYellow@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Are donations into that pot at least tax deductable?

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago

He would have asked Elon, but they're not friends anymore.

[-] Blob9994@piefed.mitch.science 9 points 1 year ago

Boy, he sounds just like my ex-girlfriend.

[-] WhiteRabbit@lemmy.today 9 points 1 year ago

Can they reduce my national debt instead?

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Don't forget to tip the tax man

[-] Skydancer@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago

Next up: Klarna

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

It's his personal Venmo, he'll make sure the money gets to the right place, you can trust him.

[-] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I'll skip the dozen obvious reasons why this is comically stupid, but imagine if this strategy did some how significantly reduce the debt - they would just pass another bill giving more tax breaks to billionaires.

Contributing to this is just like buying something from amazon without receiving the something.

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] mhague@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Conservatives immediately turned into beggars lmao

"Time for the liberals who wanted higher taxes to pay up"

Conservatives are dumb freeloaders.

Haha yes, he’s definitely 100% going to put any money people Venmo to whatever account they’ve made towards “paying of the national debt” (pronounced /ɛmˈbɛzlm(ə)nt/)

[-] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

How much you wanna bet this just goes to his personal account lol

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago

It would be just as effective as shoving my money through a paper shredder. So nah.

[-] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like another Epsein distraction attempt.

[-] Mio@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago

And how much of Trumps wealth in % has been contributed?

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

edit: Heh...

We've recovered your text Voyager says.

Submit I say

wait that text wasn't from that. post.....

What I meant to say, is that's an interesting way to drain the swamp.

that other ramble was meant to go on a different post entirely

[-] Mio@feddit.nu 1 points 1 year ago

A.You pay B. You have big inflation so the sum of that money is insignificant

No one will be happy with those options. I believe option B will be chosen.

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