I can’t help but wonder why Elon And DJT haven’t hired some our resident financial experts for the DOGE team.

Send it!! Daddy needs to feed the family

Without question it was huge contributor to inflation but at this point the moneys here. It’s beyond frustrating that we even are having this conversation. We’ve been robbed for decades.

My 2 future careers are college football coach (cause I’m positive I can lose 8 or 9 games a year for $700,000 a year
And financial expert cause I’ve done all the dumb stuff so I should be an expert now

I can’t help but wonder why Elon And DJT haven’t hired some our resident financial experts for the DOGE team.

My 2 future careers are college football coach (cause I’m positive I can lose 8 or 9 games a year for $700,000 a year
And financial expert cause I’ve done all the dumb stuff so I should be an expert now

In order for it to cause inflation, there has to be a net increase in dollars put into the economy. If they're just putting the dollars into household accounts rather than sending it down through .gov and NGO paychecks, there's no difference than status quo.

I think it's OK to question and discuss if it's the right course. Trump has been horribly wrong many times in the past. Sometimes it was obvious to most of us he was wrong and he should have recognized it too. A couple of instances that come to mind are covid and the Ryan Healthcare bill. I get really uncomfortable when anyone gets put on such a pedestal that they can't be questioned. Especially when they have a history of questionable judgement at times. An engaged and questioning citizenry is the right place to start for good government in my opinion. As far as I'm concerned as long as Trump continues taking a flamethrower to the corruption in our government I'm not going to get too concerned with the things like this that he is likely doing for the optics. Not that it matters but I believe he's probably right and needs to do something to stop the media narrative that he and Elon are robbing the country blind. The trajectory Trump is on this time will have him go down as one of our greatest presidents if he stays the course and doesn't get derailed with the nonsense of the deep state and media.

In the simplest of examples: Every dollar given out has to be printed. The govt is running a $2 trillion budget deficit right now. That means there is not enough money to pay for what we have budgeted and plan to spend. So in order to fund the budget they have to print additional money and add it to the debt. The savings DOGE is finding are unspent money that they were going to have to print and put into circulation to pay salaries, buy materials, and fulfill, contracts. Every dollar doge is finding are unspent funds, the money for which is not sitting in the treasury. In order to pass it out to taxpayers, they will still have to print it. Every time they spend money in excess of what they take in, they are taking it on to the debt very new dollar printed and dumped into the economy, increases inflation.

I’m still mad Trump sent out those checks his last time in

Biden tried down on it and here we are

In the simplest of examples: Every dollar given out has to be printed. The govt is running a $2 trillion budget deficit right now. That means there is not enough money to pay for what we have budgeted and plan to spend. So in order to fund the budget they have to print additional money and add it to the debt. The savings DOGE is finding are unspent money that they were going to have to print and put into circulation to pay salaries, buy materials, and fulfill, contracts. Every dollar doge is finding are unspent funds, the money for which is not sitting in the treasury. In order to pass it out to taxpayers, they will still have to print it. Every time they spend money in excess of what they take in, they are taking it on to the debt very new dollar printed and dumped into the economy, increases inflation.

Didn’t realize it was unspent, unprinted money. In that case it doesn’t need to be given out to anybody.

The last article I read quoted Musk as saying the money could just take the form of tax cuts.

Did you spend yours?

I’d rather them just not require income tax filings this year.

I'm not for it. In saying "taxpayer", he's referring to everyone filing tax returns. If it is decided that refunds are to be issued, then refunds should be a percentage of what you actually paid in in federal taxes. Not witholdings for payments to SS and Medicare, actual federal taxes going into the general fund. Didn't pay in anything to federal taxes, no refund. Lots of people file returns that do not end up paying a penny into federal income tax. 47% to be exact.

I'm not for just giving people free money. They'll blow it all on vacations, purchasing stuff they cannot afford to make the payments to keep, and BS just like they did the covid money and it'll just put more dollars into the system, increasing the velocity of money almost instantaneously, which in turn will create significant increases in across the board inflation several months later.

Honestly, a refund should not be issued. Everything saved should be used to reduce the national debt, with a small portion side aside to pay for the prosecution of those crooks behind it, for building the gallows to stretch those necks, and the ropes to do it with. A message needs to be sent, and it needs to be sent harshly, so that everyone understands. "Never again"