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DOGE is considering sending all Americans $5,000 as a dividend on all the savings that have been achieved by firing, slashing and burning various government agencies. My question is what will you do with your $5,000?
If it sounds too good to be true, see:https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-mulls-giving-americans-165329483.html
Personally, do not care whether it happens or not, but the great-grand kids are going to need help down the road and my problem is dividing $5,000 equally by 6 (at the moment).
It’s the great-grand kids we should worry about if we don’t deal with the deficit and debt first .
Anyone who is opposed to this can write a check to the US Treasury and return the money. If fact, one can do this at any time and for any reason. As an opinion, I would prefer any “rebate” money be applied to the deficit. But it is a real button pusher and if that was the intention by DOGE then it worked.
The initial comment was not political, but some of the overheated replies denouncing its “political” nature were themselves very political.
I will worry about what to do with a $5K DOGE dividend if and when one is ever paid.
Remember any money that is distributed isn’t actually from savings. The money has to be borrowed, thus adding to the deficit.
I don’t usually plan for things based on political posturing.
Personally would prefer if they used all of that money to improve the SS system, it would pretty much help everyone, maybe reducing program changes so that they could move that off of the list of to-do items.
SS does not use general revenue. It was set up to be self funded via a designated tax. It would be a big mistake to get away from that and mix it with the general budget process.
I was thinking of it as a one time infusion of cash, not a recurring commitment. But on re-thinking, that could just push out the “fix by date” and be a bad thing. DC is deadline oriented.
Bad idea! The purpose of all the budget cuts was to reduce the US deficit.
I would donate it to the US wealth fund.
Both this post and too many comments like it lately, put it in the political category. This type of conjecture only serves to bait those who have a political axe to grind. At the very least, it has become biased, and maybe more emboldened.
Is Humble Dollar becoming an expanded version of “The View”?
In researching information for an article I wrote about early tv shows, the writer of many of the episodes of The Goldberg’s tv show, Gertrude Berg, attributed its success to the fact that the show’s episodes revolved around topics that “didn’t upset people”.
I usually ignore negativity and cynicism but there are a few commenters who name call and seem obsessed. Even when the topic is not political, they turn it around to get their digs in. It’s just not becoming, it could be they are just depressed.