Is there a competition for the dumbest hat slogan somewhere?
I bet we could have gotten $160 billion if we made Elon pay his taxes
Daily reminder that everyone in America could have UBI if billionaires just paid what they currently owe in taxes.
Got a reference? Pro-UBI and anti-billionaire as I am, I’ve done the math and I don’t think that checks out. Meaningful UBI has an annual price tag in the trillions, and even if you assume 90%+ top bracket tax rates there aren’t enough billionaires in the US to foot that bill. Other programs would have be discontinued and/or rolled in, and tax rates increased across the board.
There’s enough billionaires that without changing your taxes and mine much you could easily pay for ubi and honestly most perspective social benefit programs.
And with the money they’re allegedly saving, they’re paying for a foreign prison to torture people without trial
How much would it cost to construct a guillotine? I bet the ROI on that would be fucking astronomical.
I could probably build it for $500. Less if it only needs to work once or twice and I can cut corners.
No, you’ll be cutting cylinders, basically.
It’s supposed to cut necks, tho. A guillotine that cuts corners is practically useless.
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I already have the tools I’d need just budgeting for hardware, lumber, and steel for the blade.
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Nah, might as well do it right. There’s a few thousand billionaires in the world, so it’s much more economical to build it to last than to skimp on materials and having to build new ones all the time.
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The trouble is, you have to account for transport costs that way. Either to bring it to them, or them to it. A Redundant Array of Inexpensive Decapitators (or RAID array) gives you higher throughput, better resilience to component failures and can lower your total costs versus building a single entity that is robust enough to be as reliable.
I am, of course joking. Unfortunately, just eliminating billionaires, cathartic though it might be, wouldn’t actually solve any problems as it doesn’t meaningfully redistribute that wealth, or stop someone else accumulating in the same way, only with better personal security. It’s going to take changing the system at a much deeper, more fundamental, level than that. At the point it becomes actively undesirable to the individual to accumulate that much wealth, and I don’t think mere threats to their physical safety will do that, you’ve effectively decapitated capitalism.
I have a hammer with a mysterious legacy that can be donated to the cause!
I am intrigued. Tell me more about this “mysterious legacy”.
It was either purchased by my father, or my uncle. The answer has been lost to time as both are long deceased. At times it was in one’s house until it was stolen back by the other, and vice versa. Both men warred over who it belonged to for years, nearly tore a chunk of the family apart. Normal ass hammer bought at a Canadian Tire in the 80s.
Now its in my hands, where it waits to be drawn and cannot be put away until a nail is driven.
Haha, the Hammer of Angantyr.
Damn, looks like I forgot to sharpen the blade. Eh, just keep raising it and dropping it. It will get through eventually.
It cost nothing because by then we’ve seized the means of production. I’ll be happy to build one with no labor cost. The benefits of its use are payment enough.
Just save Elon for last and run the blade against a brick to dull it a little first.
$110 at harbor freight. Light and compact enough to bring it to any event. No power? No problem! For an additional $25 you can pick up a 20v cordless version. Variable-speed trigger and 6-speed dial provide adjustment for different applications. Additionally, you conveniently receive a complimentary 5 gallon bucket with purchase this weekend!
If Harbor Freight weren’t explicitly referened, I would have expected this to end in “shop smart, shop S-Mart.”
Listen up you MAGA screwheads
I think I like you.
So far, the feeling is mutual.
Harbor Freight really does have a tool for any job.
Around $500 USD plus shipping but there’s a 5 year waiting list here.
If you add the week of labour to assemble once it arrives, about $2k if you hire someone, your total cost should be $3k with shipping, tariffs, etc.
The irony of this being subjected to tariffs.
In the same vane, I can also save by geting rid of my home, car, job, investments, spouse and start eating dirt instead of food. I’d be homeless and misserable. But I’d have no expenses right now. Would it make me wealthier? No. What about later? Again, no. In fact I will quickly get poorer.
He is running the department of shutting down whatever Musk personally dislikes. Enabling corruption, extracting data for hostile foreign interests and loosing the peoples and contrys wealth.
I can also save by geting rid of my home, car, job, investments, spouse and start eating dirt instead of food. I’d be homeless and misserable. But I’d have no expenses right now.
Turns out that the typical life people enjoy in Haiti is the ideal they are going for. Stupid libraries.
With domestic terrorists like these, who needs foreign adversaries?
Since russia took over the government, we the population of the US are the foreign adversaries. And boy howdy are we being treated like it.
I really wish the mainstream media would describe this with historical context. Alfred Hugenberg gutted the German bureaucracy when hitler took power to allow the Nazis free reign, and that is absolutely the point of DOGE today.
Per year versus one time cost?
Cost taxpayers $135 billion so far…
I’m sure this doesn’t even calculate the downstream damages done when agencies like FEMA can no longer do their jobs effectively. But I’m sure some for-profit enterprise will fill the gaps where possible to screw people out of their money.
I still think they lost more than they cut just in money terms and this is missing costs or overstating savings. The military ads have disappeared that I have been complaining about. Either they met their headcount or realized they were spending to much or they realized they can’t appeal to patriotism with such a treasonous administration.
We’ve already lost something like half a trillion dollars in tax revenue. And that’s just the people Leon Skum fired to stop billionaires from paying taxes. And that’s not even counting the TRILLIONS of dollars the US is going to lose to tarrifs, fucking up our trade relationships, and burning any desire for American manufactures equipment.
There’s a ton of gallows humor in knowing the people that the braindead elected to mAkE aMeRiCa GrEaT aGaIn are going to be responsible for ruining the country. Sucks that it’s going to burn down around my ears, but at least I can find some humor in it I guess.
Picking up pennies in front of a steamroller.
Cost us 135 billion so far, it is going to be much much higher now that they have gutted the IRS and countless investments into our economy. The truth is they are going to cost us tens of trillions of dollars.
Why does it appear that every member of our military has betrayed their oath?
When you’re recruiting for an organisation that makes it its entire mission to spread suffering and destruction around the world, you’re not going to get the best people.
No they haven’t. If you were in military you would know that they can’t demonstrate against the president while in service. So don’t take their silence as submitting.
This is coming from a vet and with a cousin still serving right now. Not saying all are against but there are people.
“Demonstrate”?!
Isn’t the oath to protect Americans from enemies of the constitution, full stop?
Jfc you don’t understand do you? So you want a military coup d’etat do you? What do you think happens when that occurs?
Think? You want them to act? 2 branches of the government needs to declare that the president has gone rogue, or the majority of the population comes to together to over throw the government.
Nothing good comes from a military coup d’etat. Period.
No-one wants that, but they might not have any other choice at some point.
Yeah that point will be when they are given an illegal order.
Nothing good comes from a military coup d’etat. Period
We’re in a Nazi country. Threre is no good anyway.
Ok what are you doing? Have you gather a group to fight or are you just gonna type away and still eat your MacDonald?
For being punk rock, what are you doing to fight against the government?
Don’t blame it on the little guy
Is an oath binding or just words
So far. Because the damage from completely fucking everything up is still ongoing, and will cost even more to fix, once the war is over.
