Can one of the math addicts of lemmy.world calculate how much it would cost to give every adult in the US 5k for voting Republican? Also who is going to pay for it? My guess taxpayers.

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• BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  The current estimate is about 270+ million adults in the US. So 270 * 5 is 1350, so about 1.35 trillion.

  Nobody is going to pay for it because it wasn’t congressionally approved. It was a false promise given by a turd that can’t follow through with it.

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• a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Why meth addicts, though?

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• _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  On the order of 1.5 Trillion. Never Going To Happen ™

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• shittydwarf@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A Trump never pays his debts

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• echo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I would believe Lucy holding the football long before Trump talking about giving anyone money.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not his money. He has no problem spending your money.

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    • SPRUNTnsfw@fedinsfw.app ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why spend your money when he can keep it for himself?

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• TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s basically the covid subsidies twice over… so, in theory it could be done… but realistically no it’s not going to happen, just like the tarrif refunds and the doge checks.

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• NekoKoneko@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If it’s from the government, yes, there’s nobody but taxpayers paying it - either by the Treasury, borrowing with interest or money printing that devalues everyone’s money.

  Money comes from somewhere and the government is in effect a financial proxy for the public. He’s offering us our own money.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The billionaires certainly would not be.

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• unitedwithme@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If only ⅓ actually vote, that’s around 110m people (assuming all are adults of legal voting age). If about ⅓ actually identify as a Republican, that’s about 35k people. 35,000 x $5,000 = $175m.

  Considering Trump’s doubled his worth to over $11b (illegally) he could theoretically pay for it. Not that he will lol. But he made more than that on his crypto rug pull scheme, so… There’s that.

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