The Treasury began accepting Venmo payments a few months ago. Last year, the government received $2.7 million in gifts to pay down the debt.
  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    13·
    7 hours ago

    How about give me all the fucking social security I paid over the course of my career first, instead of handing it to like 12 billionaires who definitely don’t need it?

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 hours ago

    I’m sorry are my taxes not enough? Try taking some from the billionaires you just gifted milkions in tax breaks…

    • RatherBeMTB@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      18 minutes ago

      I don’t even understand why someone with 100 million needs a billion or a milkion… There’s no end to unchecked ambition.

  • rainwall@piefed.socialEnglish
    6·
    15 hours ago

    Not surprised Thiels/Musks paypal/venmo are onboard.

    This is just an absurd attempt to derail arguments about fair taxation by waiving a red herring around about people being able to voluntarily increase their own taxes, as if asking for a fair system is the same as utterly destroying your own solvency.

  • VoidJuiceConcentrate@midwest.socialEnglish
    36·
    21 hours ago

    So, pay the government more money (socializing the losses) while the government funnels that same money in to executive pockets (privatizing the gains)??

  • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    582·
    23 hours ago

    As we tend to say in Europe, the US is a third-world country wearing a Gucci belt

    • yeehaw@lemmy.caEnglish
      29·
      22 hours ago

      You know those payment machines where you walk to a counter, order, and they ask for a tip?

      That’s what this is, but at a federal level.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        20 hours ago

        Thats already a thing in taxes. There are a few programs you can donate directly to or just pay more to the general government fund. Which is fair enough, whether you’re feeling generous or want to throw on a bit extra to cover your ass in case of math error or forgotten revenue that’s a reasonable thing to offer though most won’t.

        But yeah the feds hitting you up for a few bucks on venmo would be bad enough if they hadn’t just slashed taxes on the rich, raised them on the poor, ballooned the budget, ramped up tyranny, and slashed the things the government does that actually benefit people.

    • cjoll4@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      21 hours ago

      People are donating out of the goodness of their hearts, of course. Clearly, relieving a teeny tiny drop in the massive ocean of public debt is a more worthy charitable cause than giving directly to organizations that provide clean water, education, or disaster relief.