Venmo, PayPal users can now send money to the US government to help pay down $36.7T national debt
https://nypost.com/2025/07/25/business/venmo-paypal-users-can-help-us-government-pay-down-36-7t-debt/Open linkView original on aussie.zone373
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Wouldn't it be more effective to make the wealthy and corporations pay tax?
Blasphemy!
Right? How dare them?
Worse - socialism, and possibly Marxism!
Are there any women here today??
All i said was "that meal was good enough for Jehovah..!"
I'm so saddened I got down voted for my life of Brian quote from uncouth mouth breathers who didn't recognize it.
Don't let the uncouth mouth breathers get ya down..!
I will never help pay down the national debt willingly. The 1% did it, so they can pay it back.
The debt of the nation are the income and assets of the 1%. They don't want the debt to disappear.
One of the most astute comments I've ever read.
I don't think that is the case
It has more to do with 50-100 years of reckless spending
And what class is usually in control of the government?
So the US tax code is switching to a "Pay what you want" model?
Rich people: "Switching?"
Ultra Rich: "Pay?"
Honestly it would be cool if Americans could choose how their money is used. Have a base tax plus you choose 3 programs out of 10.
When I was a kid, I assumed that was how it worked. When I found out it wasn't, my reaction was something like, "then what even is a democracy?"
"and to the republic for which it stands"
Not a democracy : /
That sounds just like taxes, but with extra steps.
Except you already pay taxes this is just to bleed the poor dry faster, qnd drip barely anything towards the debt so they can claim the finances are fine, to keep the real government happy, investors.
It is voluntary
Might as well start a GoFundMe at this point. I heard people nowadays will throw tons of money at fascists.
I'd gladly drop my entire net worth on Trump and all his cronies heads...as long as I am allowed to convert it all to pennies first.
The news is basically free Only Fans where I get to see Americans get fucked by their government.
I'm pretty sure they're already getting 30% from my gross. Plus I somehow owe them an additional few grand every year.
Speaking of, anyone else find it funny (read blatantly obvious) that you cant choose a tax amount this year on your W4? Used to be able to select withholding amount, now its just "We'll figure it out for you". I bet they were afraid of everyone marking 0 this year.
i would pay for a exclusive, patron only, early access to the Epstein files, no gimmicks
Here are all of the Epstein Files that have either been leaked or released.
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/gov.uscourts.nysd.447706.1320.0-combined.pdf (verified court documents)
https://joshwho.net/EpsteinList/black-book-unredacted.pdf (verified pre-Bondi) Trump is on page 85, or pdf pg. 80
Trump’s name is circled. The circled individuals are the ones involved in the trafficking ring according to the person who originally released the book. These people would be “The List “ Here is the story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsiKUXrlcac
Here's the flight logs https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21165424-epstein-flight-logs-released-in-usa-vs-maxwell/
—————————other Epstein Information
https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Calif_Lawsuit.pdf here’s a court doc of Epstein and Trump raping a 13 yr old together.
Some people think this claim is a hoax. Here is Katies testimony on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnib-OORRRo
Epstein’s Ex Says He Boasted About Being a Mossad Agent https://share.google/jLMGahKlCzfV1RHZq Epstein and Israel both hired lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who says he's building 'legal dream team' to defend Israel in court and on internationally | The Times of Israel https://share.google/Lb9hDOduBWG4Elpid
Epstein Docs: https://ia600705.us.archive.org/21/items/epsteindocs/
Epstein Bribes/Payments: 1 BILLION+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7IrEi-ybzs
—————————other Trump information:
Here's trump admitting to peeping on 14-15 year old girls at around 1:40 on the Howard Stern Radio Show: https://youtu.be/iFaQL_kv_QY
Trump's promise to his daughter: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-ivanka-trump-dating-promise_n_57ee98cbe4b024a52d2ead02 “I have a deal with her. She’s 17 and doing great ― Ivanka. She made me promise, swear to her that I would never date a girl younger than her,” Trump said. “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.”
Trump's modeling agency was probably part of Jeffreys pipeline: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-management-illegal-immigration/
A good summary of Trump-Epstein timeline: https://thepresidential.medium.com/we-have-been-gaslit-about-donald-trump-and-jeffrey-epstein-for-four-years-fbda67c20f75
• Much of this info can also be found on: https://theepsteindocs.com/
Feel free to do your part and spread this info around so it is never “lost”.
Its funny because the largest holder of US debt is social security. So most of the debt is owed to the workers. You are paying the money back you borrowed in the first place.
As of Q1 2025 US household debt was $18.2 trillion dollars. This is like a guy who lives in a van down by the river asking a homeless guy to help him make his van payments.
https://www.newyorkfed.org/microeconomics/hhdc.html
Even worse - a guy who lives in a big, white house asking it of a guy who lives in a van down by the river.
Debt per capita is $108k. Median net worth is 121k. Median savings: $600. Yeah, this is something for the upper percentiles. The majority of the population can't make a dent in the national debt.
How is this real?
We've gone off the rails
I want to see who donates. they can't make something like that and then not let us laugh at whoever does it
If I had venmo I'd send a dollar so I could have a laugh with my friends tbh
I feel like it would be better to stop creating even more dept...
US government loan forgiveness 🤣
Can’t buy yaoi on steam, but this is somehow totally acceptable and inoffensive.
That is not how that works at all...
They are in debt because for decades the government kept spending without bringing in tax money to cover it. They borrowed from other countries which creates dept.
You are willingly agreeing to pay them that money ahead of time for your ease. It has always been an option to not pay it until filing season.
Try telling that to basically any decently sized company.
Companies don't deserve the right. They're not individuals, they don't even pay enough taxes as it is
Comapnies dont have that right. Companies are required to pay quarterly estimated taxes, and are fined if they are found to have underpaid on those estimates.
My comment was asking along the lines of companies not giving the employee the choice in having taxes deducted or not.
My company offers it and we're worth billions. I'm surprised others don't
We're all just trying to find the guy responsible!
Franklin D. Roosevelt?
/s
No Patreon, GoFundMe or Ko-fi?
Trump doing a weekly Patreon video to thank the top donors whose usernames are just a bunch of puns on slurs
Better to just burn the money; at least you can keep warm that way, maybe cook some hot dogs.
Starving children and invading countries comes with a cost! Help the state that hates you!
Shit! I want to donate but I blew all of my money on Trump's recent trip to Scotland.
Just wait a bit until his NFT takes off
I mean, they do have a voting block that regularly donates to televangelists... Those extra private jets have to come from somewhere.
I think those donations were from decades ago. Apparently the likes of Copeland's "church" needs staff to bring boomers to the front so it looks like loads on tv
Retiring the US debt would retire the US dollar
Amazed an NYPost article isn't getting more scrutiny on Lemmy
But either way it appears to be verified by multiple other sources
You can find the site here: https://www.pay.gov/public/form/start/23779454
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Someone posted elsewhere that this is a program that’s existed a long time, not from Trump, which would make it disingenuous to report on it as though its brand new.
The new stuff is accepting payments in Venmo and PayPal.
Meaning Murdoch is stirring up old shit and making it look new in his fight with Trump?
I’ll allow it.
For those who didn't read the article:
The only new thing is more convenient donation methods.