ByteOnBikes@discuss.online to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoTrump Is Really Asking People to Venmo to Pay Off the National Debtnewrepublic.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down115
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minus-squareBombOmOm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·2 months ago The Treasury has run this program for years, and people have donated $67.3 million since 1996
minus-squareSaik0@lemmy.saik0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoI read this too… This post should be removed for bullshit. It may be the original articles headline… but the headline is complete and utter garbage.
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·2 months agoI mean it’s true that Venmo was not an option to donate money there prior to Trump’s presidency. He probably has nothing to do with it, but who knows. Could have been Musks idea to update payment methods, or the last admin…
minus-squareFanciestPants@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoIf Musk’s idea, wouldn’t it have been PayPal?
minus-squareLifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months agoPayPal was added as well according to the article. It’s just not enough money to make it something I think musk would have cared about. 2.9% per domestic paypal transaction… I imagine it’s only about 30k a year they’d make off those little donations
minus-squareHerbie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoSo people have paid off 0.00019% of the debt… nice
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoI feel like it’s the opposite of nice, well meaning people getting grifted by the state itself.
I read this too… This post should be removed for bullshit. It may be the original articles headline… but the headline is complete and utter garbage.
I mean it’s true that Venmo was not an option to donate money there prior to Trump’s presidency. He probably has nothing to do with it, but who knows. Could have been Musks idea to update payment methods, or the last admin…
If Musk’s idea, wouldn’t it have been PayPal?
PayPal was added as well according to the article.
It’s just not enough money to make it something I think musk would have cared about. 2.9% per domestic paypal transaction…
I imagine it’s only about 30k a year they’d make off those little donations
So people have paid off 0.00019% of the debt… nice
I feel like it’s the opposite of nice, well meaning people getting grifted by the state itself.