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Trump Is Really Asking People to Venmo to Pay Off the National Debt (newrepublic.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 58 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The Treasury has run this program for years, and people have donated $67.3 million since 1996

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 36 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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..

[–] FanciestPants@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If Musk's idea, wouldn't it have been PayPal?

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] Herbie@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So people have paid off 0.00019% of the debt.. nice

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I feel like it's the opposite of nice, well meaning people getting grifted by the state itself.

[–] Herbie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I should've added a sarcasm tag in there. You're right though, I was trying to imply with such a crazy low percentage it's not even a drop in the bucket and probably would be considered just a straight up grift.