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.
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).
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/)
Conservatives immediately turned into beggars lmao
“Time for the liberals who wanted higher taxes to pay up”
Conservatives are dumb freeloaders.
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.
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.
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.
It would be just as effective as shoving my money through a paper shredder. So nah.
It’s his personal Venmo, he’ll make sure the money gets to the right place, you can trust him.
Bet that money doesn’t go towards the national debt
They’re to fund the ICE concentration camps to lock you up in.
Why doesn’t he ask his billionaire friends?
Yet another distraction from Trump being a serial child molester.
Yeah bro I’ll just venmo you five trillion dollars no biggie
Can you just cover all 37 trillion for us? Thanks
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.
What’s the median net worth without the 10 richest people, because they obviously don’t have to contribute
192k
Median, not medium
Median, not *mean/average.
Fair. Though also, english isn’t my first language.
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.
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.
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 snakepolitely 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.
I always have a difficulty remembering the difference between median and medium
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.
Thank you
And mean and mode
That’s embarrassing. Not that that’s new lately. But yeah.
Great, an invitation to piss into a hurricane.
