• Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I mean you could even take the bottom number and leave them with the top number and they could still live in unimaginable luxury forever. Or just take the lot because fuck em lol.

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      1 year ago

      You all realize they don’t have that money laying around to pay the IRS right? They own companies, those companies are worth that much. To pay that you would have to liquidate those companies. So no more Amazon, Tesla, Space X, etc…

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    1 year ago

    Regardless of how hard it’s to do this, you’ll get what out of this… 15B? That’s nothing… the government spends that in less than a day. Maybe cut government spending in half first. None of this is sustainable.

    https://www.usdebtclock.org/

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        1 year ago

        You do understand that the government budget is 4 trillion per year, right? Do the math! What’s wrong with you?

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            1 year ago

            Do the total and calculate it all and show me whether it’s gonna last you a few days.

            You plebs can’t do elementary school math and think you should talk policy. What a joke.