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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink-33•24 days agoSo the government is collecting 500 billion less this year. They didn’t lose anything because they never had it in the first place
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink17•24 days agoIncorrect. By law that money is owed to the government as taxes. Doge hasn’t changed that. They have only ensured they don’t have the staff to collect.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•24 days agoWhat I mean to say is that the money has not been pissed away
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•23 days agoThe money is being pissed away by tax cheats who are stealing from the American public.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish14•24 days agoThis is logic only a moron can understand. What are you even trying to say?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•24 days agoHe’s saying the government didn’t collect the money, so it never had it, so it could never lose it. Just pedantry that serves no useful purpose.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•24 days agoWhat I mean to say is that the money has not been pissed away
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•24 days agoThat’s like saying if I don’t pay my loan the bank hasn’t lost any money.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•24 days agoAha! Just like my local food bank didn’t lose funding - it just didn’t receive its next funding installment! Good job on the useless pedantry, Batman!
So the government is collecting 500 billion less this year. They didn’t lose anything because they never had it in the first place
Incorrect. By law that money is owed to the government as taxes. Doge hasn’t changed that. They have only ensured they don’t have the staff to collect.
What I mean to say is that the money has not been pissed away
The money is being pissed away by tax cheats who are stealing from the American public.
This is logic only a moron can understand. What are you even trying to say?
He’s saying the government didn’t collect the money, so it never had it, so it could never lose it.
Just pedantry that serves no useful purpose.
What I mean to say is that the money has not been pissed away
That’s like saying if I don’t pay my loan the bank hasn’t lost any money.
Aha! Just like my local food bank didn’t lose funding - it just didn’t receive its next funding installment! Good job on the useless pedantry, Batman!