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Trump Is Really Asking People to Venmo to Pay Off the National Debt (newrepublic.com)

submitted 1 week ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Herbie@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So people have paid off 0.00019% of the debt.. nice

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I feel like it's the opposite of nice, well meaning people getting grifted by the state itself.

[–] Herbie@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I should've added a sarcasm tag in there. You're right though, I was trying to imply with such a crazy low percentage it's not even a drop in the bucket and probably would be considered just a straight up grift.