maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoVenmo, PayPal users can now send money to the US government to help pay down $36.7T national debtnypost.comexternal-linkmessage-square67linkfedilinkarrow-up1378arrow-down19cross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squarePossibly linux@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-25 days agoHonestly it would be cool if Americans could choose how their money is used. Have a base tax plus you choose 3 programs out of 10.
minus-squaregedaliyah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoWhen I was a kid, I assumed that was how it worked. When I found out it wasn’t, my reaction was something like, “then what even is a democracy?”
minus-square𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days ago“and to the republic for which it stands” Not a democracy : /
Honestly it would be cool if Americans could choose how their money is used. Have a base tax plus you choose 3 programs out of 10.
When I was a kid, I assumed that was how it worked. When I found out it wasn’t, my reaction was something like, “then what even is a democracy?”
“and to the republic for which it stands”
Not a democracy : /