I bet we could have gotten $160 billion if we made Elon pay his taxes
Daily reminder that everyone in America could have UBI if billionaires just paid what they currently owe in taxes.
Got a reference? Pro-UBI and anti-billionaire as I am, I’ve done the math and I don’t think that checks out. Meaningful UBI has an annual price tag in the trillions, and even if you assume 90%+ top bracket tax rates there aren’t enough billionaires in the US to foot that bill. Other programs would have be discontinued and/or rolled in, and tax rates increased across the board.
There’s enough billionaires that without changing your taxes and mine much you could easily pay for ubi and honestly most perspective social benefit programs.
How much would it cost to construct a guillotine? I bet the ROI on that would be fucking astronomical.
I could probably build it for $500. Less if it only needs to work once or twice and I can cut corners.
No, you’ll be cutting cylinders, basically.
Damn, looks like I forgot to sharpen the blade. Eh, just keep raising it and dropping it. It will get through eventually.
$110 at harbor freight. Light and compact enough to bring it to any event. No power? No problem! For an additional $25 you can pick up a 20v cordless version. Variable-speed trigger and 6-speed dial provide adjustment for different applications. Additionally, you conveniently receive a complimentary 5 gallon bucket with purchase this weekend!
If Harbor Freight weren’t explicitly referened, I would have expected this to end in “shop smart, shop S-Mart.”
Listen up you MAGA screwheads
I think I like you.
So far, the feeling is mutual.
Harbor Freight really does have a tool for any job.
It cost nothing because by then we’ve seized the means of production. I’ll be happy to build one with no labor cost. The benefits of its use are payment enough.
Just save Elon for last and run the blade against a brick to dull it a little first.
And with the money they’re allegedly saving, they’re paying for a foreign prison to torture people without trial
With domestic terrorists like these, who needs foreign adversaries?
In the same vane, I can also save by geting rid of my home, car, job, investments, spouse and start eating dirt instead of food. I’d be homeless and misserable. But I’d have no expenses right now. Would it make me wealthier? No. What about later? Again, no. In fact I will quickly get poorer.
He is running the department of shutting down whatever Musk personally dislikes. Enabling corruption, extracting data for hostile foreign interests and loosing the peoples and contrys wealth.
I can also save by geting rid of my home, car, job, investments, spouse and start eating dirt instead of food. I’d be homeless and misserable. But I’d have no expenses right now.
Turns out that the typical life people enjoy in Haiti is the ideal they are going for. Stupid libraries.
I’m sure this doesn’t even calculate the downstream damages done when agencies like FEMA can no longer do their jobs effectively. But I’m sure some for-profit enterprise will fill the gaps where possible to screw people out of their money.
Cost us 135 billion so far, it is going to be much much higher now that they have gutted the IRS and countless investments into our economy. The truth is they are going to cost us tens of trillions of dollars.
So not $2 Trillion like they initially said?
“says”. I’d like it if articles were more clear about this. 160 is the max range for the “savings”. It’s not that much and I’d prefer that get broken down whenever mentioned. 135 they acknowledge doesn’t include the costs of the legal issues it’s caused. In the meantime the debt goes higher faster, which was the whole point according to them if you take their word. You shouldn’t. I’d guess interest rates on the debt went up because of the instability, but that’s just my guess.
That’s just the monetary cost. They have have cost society far more than that.
So they found the F-35s? lol
Yea, that’s like saying you fixed the cut on your hand by amputating your arm.
