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"Economist Dean Baker put Trump’s proposed budget into context by noting that the additional requested defense spending “is a bit less than $5,000 per household.”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/pete-hegseth-budget-request
ethajn
New plan: raise the requested revenue, by passing “the Pete Hegseth City on a Hill Make America Great Again Eternal Freedom Fund”. The content of the bill will be a tax on wealth above $20 million and eliminating common loopholes for capital gains tax. See what happens to him after that.
InablueMule
Thanks for the Math.
rubypilgrim
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/us-national-debt-crosses-100-of-gdp-america-now-owes-more-than-its-entire-economy-produces-and-the-1-trillion-interest-payments-alone-now-outpace-the-pentagon/articleshow/130677638.cms We are now paying more for our national debt than we are making. We are fucking broke.
Coltaine
Just tax Melon Husk some more, it's only ~$1,500,000,000,000 after all.
bhhorner350
Is the Pentagon low on Steak & Lobster?
a1b3117
I'd pay $5k to bomb him...and I don't mean Jaeger bombs
TalanRhodes
cabalin
Trump has already said as much, namely, we can’t afford to serve the American people, we have wars to fight.
newwoolmonosta
he can take a flying fuck at a rolling donut!
corndude101
$5,000????
Jesus just tell us you want us to be drone workers and do nothing but work till we die.
Thats over $400 a month. No one would be able to afford anything. That would surely lead to a revolt.
dynamojoe
THIS. This is exactly how the debate should be framed. This costs $3B, that costs $755M, these numbers are meaningless to the average voter. But if you tell them "this costs every voter $5000 per year" they'll start comparing it to their own lives.
corndude101
That’s roughly $400 a month… tell them that and there will be a revolt.
And that’s if everything is spread out equally to everyone.
You know people like Trump and Hegseth are paying $0. So their cost gets lumped into the middle and lower classes.
TheWisdomCube
Wtf? They're even somehow stupider than the actual Nazis. Ffs
LeifHietala
As an American, and with all due respect to Hegseth, he can go fuck himself.
devasto
My favorite part was the SAC asking for justification for more funding for a war the White House said they won two months ago
REOJackwagon
I hope this wasn't performative BS they intend to ignore and just approve a blank check in the end
Iblamemyparentstoo
You ain't lying
REOJackwagon
Motherfuckers
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Rangar
So sick of the blank socialist welfare check for the arms industry, paid by people who are struggling to put food on the table. But sure, tell us again to give billionaires more taxpayer money.
LitterBoxKing
Households won't pay that, per se. It'll come from things like the retirement that not one of us will ever see.
Fuckimgurcunts
Truth. If I am ever able to retire, I will quickly see how long I can maintain a comfortable life, current estimation 5-10 years if all goes well, and then take myself out. I would prefer a little longer, if my body held, but it won't and I don't.
To be clear, in the question of "would you take immortality and accept the curse of seeing everyone you love die" I would choose immortality. It's not that I would have had enough time. It's simple cost benefit analysis.
huffnpuff72
Its just a way of making the stupidly huge number of dollars more real for average people. If they want $100b, it is just 'heaps'. If they want the equivalent of $5k from everyone that makes it understandable.
Ostegonation
My wife and I are at the brink... Wtf else are we supposed to do when they want even more money and keep making everything more expensive? So tired of these disconnected twat waffles.
Jimthebutler
Come take it, keggy.
Helixninja333
Here's the thing, it won't even go towards paying for their stupid fucking war. It will go straight into their bank accounts and anyone on the front line of their stupid fucking war will have to fight with the cheapest shit they can get away with. Fuck these fascist pedophile con-artists with a red hot poker.
cabalin
Fascist, pedophile, con artists, yes, but good Christians I’m told.
onedeadhero
You're right. Extra special emphasis on that last sentence too.
Yellowchopsticks
I demand the Pentagon be funded by locking Hegseth in a pillory and selling rotten vegetables to throw at him.
Vempire
Fuck his shit up
HenryLongfellowIII
Elon's wealth is about $7,600 for every U.S. household. Just sayin'.
kraeftig
The wealth of every american billionaire combined, and redistributed to every American of every age (including children).... While leaving exactly 1 billion in the hands of every single one of those billionaires.... Would be worth over 20k per person. (Some variation depends on who is reporting the wealth, so this is approximate). That's right, if you were a family of 5 that would be over 100k. That's what american billionaires have taken from you.
Iblamemyparentstoo
That fucker gets 8 million dollars a day because of trump's contracts with elon!
bearded3d
Kegbreth can choke on dick
foxpotate
Go fuck yourself pete. We all now know your nickname in high school was "pete homosex" and that's why you are like this, drinking yourself to death and overcompensating even to the point of demanding others overcompensate with you. Killing people in the middle east wont heal the hole in your soul or unwaste your life emo. Get therapy and resign. I'm sick of paying for these closet cases mental illness with the damage they continue to cause themselves.
SecretAgentSuperBooger
Hegseth and Stephen Miller made quite the pair in high school:
Iblamemyparentstoo
That is priceless!
foxpotate
Miller's family got calls from the school about his psychotic nazi shit. They need to answer to congress as to why they didn't have him institutionalized.
TheJomsborgViking
He looks like people who become addled from excessive drinking.
SixSixxtySix
He looks like people that need to be punched repeatedly.
AndTheArghnauts
That might be down to the excessive drinking
Voojagig
But he promised he wouldn't drink excessively while he had the job!
TheMightyMollusk
He'll quit in two weeks.
yamsonyamsonyams
Just as soon as Iran surrenders!
brianglass10
No.
themayorMcCheese
Good answer. I agree, no. Fuck you and fuck off pete hegseth
Iblamemyparentstoo
How bout...FUCK NO!
spiderjohn36
LuminoZero
Are you adjusting your W-2 to refuse to pay Federal Income taxes? If not, then you're paying it.
yamsonyamsonyams
Well at least youre out of your anime porn phase
CheeseGreaterGood
Ha!
Iblamemyparentstoo
So tell us smarty pants, how do me adjust our W-2 to refuse to pay Federal taxes without winding up in prison and be specific
LuminoZero
And this is why America will fall, because nobody is willing to do something with even the slightest risk to fight fascism.
Lick those boots, buddy.
Sh4dowWalker96
Nice non-answer.
LuminoZero
"Please explain in detail how I can change this corrupt system without being inconvenienced."