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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 119 points 2 months ago

Trickle down economics

For the past 50 years they've tried to give the wealthy some money but no matter how much they gave the rich, only a little trickled down to the poor

So they've decided to just turn on the money fire hose and shower the rich with all the money they can get their hands on ... it's a literal avalanche of money and hopefully this will trickle down and get some more money to the poor.

For every million they send to a rich person, ten bucks goes to a street person .... so we need to spend billions, trillions of dollars on these rich people in order to get enough money to people in need.

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 66 points 2 months ago

I can actually picture someone making this argument in earnest.

[-] Susurrus@lemm.ee 25 points 2 months ago

If you got 10 bucks for every million towards billionaires you'd actually be a millionaire. The ratio was more like a cent for every million.

[-] huppakee@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

I think they mean $999,990 goes to person A and $10 goes to person B.

If you want to create one (1) millionaire that way you would need to spend $999,000,000,000. Imagine how that would look with 1 cent to every million.

Are the two of you even talking about the same data? Maybe you spread the $10 over 1,000 people to get to that number of $0,01.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Trickle down economics

A sound bit to fool the common clay rubes - fools them over, and over, and over. Rinse and repeat.

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 99 points 2 months ago

With far fewer irs agents, they can't effectively audit tax cheats.

We are funding the complete destruction of Palestine.

Golf is expensive.

He's been sued 220 times for the 100 days he has been in office. Lawyers are really expensive. (Well unless you blackmail them.)

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fun fact! Tariffs aren't collected by the IRS, they're collected by Customs and Border Protection, a sibling organization to ICE

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 96 points 2 months ago

Every GOP accusation is an admission. Where is the money going? Waste, Fraud, and Abuse.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago

Trump buying gold gimcracks for the Oval Office on late night TV.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

So apparently those things are spray painted plastic and available for $30 at home depot.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And bitcoin, so it’s untraceable

[-] slingstone@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago

I thought this would be appropriate...

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

It's a cult. I overheard two Trumpers talking how the tariffs will only hurt for a little bit, but once everything religns, things will be great.

[-] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago

And there goes the national debt...TO THE MOON πŸ“ˆπŸ“ˆπŸ“ˆ

yeah some of the billionaires money isn't even real, the government just gives it to them without having it in the first place

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

any global conflicts currently? nope.

any actual national emergencies currently? nope.

any international catastrophes recently? nope.

republicunt in the white house? yup.

ding. ding. we have a winner. to the fucking moon the debt shall go.

[-] spooky2092 2 points 2 months ago

s/nope/not yet/g

Give it time, Trumpler will have all 3.

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 points 2 months ago

But because of the belligerent attitude other countries stopped buying US debt, at a time where debt is exploding and up for renewable. Something is going to break.

[-] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

And the only real stipulations is the oppression of your workers and bending the knee to those more money than you.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Golfing is expensive these days.

[-] anas@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Unrelated, is this a newer format on Twitter or are people manually recreating simple Twitter screenshots for some reason?

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

It might be mastodon. I don't know though. Maybe it's just a twitter skin

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Did anyone confirm it was actually ever posted to Twitter?

[-] IndieSpren 14 points 2 months ago
[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Taxes are paid to the IRS, but who are tariffs paid to?

[-] zer0squar3d@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago
[-] painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Not trickling down, that's for sure.

[-] ThatGuyNamedZeus@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago
[-] kevin2107@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

wrong trumps pockets

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 2 months ago

More police to fuck us all up.

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

The weirdo is taking it

[-] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Private military contract to billionaires like musk

[-] oyzmo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Musk is still smiling...

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Same place that our world's highest expenditures on education and healthcare go: Corporations.

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, tariffs aren't collected by the IRS, so...

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