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Buckminster Fuller to Conservative@lemm.ee • 3 months ago

The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down

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The eye-popping amount of money Elon Musk has already slashed from the Education Department as staff melt down

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Buckminster Fuller to Conservative@lemm.ee • 3 months ago
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  • @Batman@lemmy.world
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    27•3 months ago

    It’s 1 billion dollars. Literally 3$ per person.

    • Buckminster FullerOP
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      4•3 months ago

      That’s a lot. And it’s $3 that I don’t have to give away.

      • @Luci@lemmy.ca
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        21•3 months ago

        Wait until you learn about taxes

        • Buckminster FullerOP
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          2•3 months ago

          I had to pay taxes when this was around too.

          • knightly the Sneptaur
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            20•3 months ago

            You’re still going to have to pay taxes, in fact your taxes are probably going up next year.

            The government cutting its budget doesn’t automatically mean tax savings.

            • IndescribablySad@threads.net
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              16•3 months ago

              I dunno, my gas bill has never been lower since I took a hatchet to my engine block. Please don’t ask about my uber budget.

            • Buckminster FullerOP
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              1•3 months ago

              We’ll see.

              • knightly the Sneptaur
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                4•3 months ago

                We already have:

                https://itep.org/a-distributional-analysis-of-donald-trumps-tax-plan-2024/

                Unless you’re already in the top 5%, your taxes are going up.

          • @Luci@lemmy.ca
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            14•3 months ago

            Yeah, you saved $3 on taxes. Great. Dismantled a whole department.

            • Buckminster FullerOP
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              1•3 months ago

              All of us saved $3. It adds up. I am fine with government departments getting dismantled.

              • @Luci@lemmy.ca
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                4•3 months ago

                What’s that net ya? Half a coffee?

      • @hactar42@lemmy.world
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        11•3 months ago

        Yeah because fuck kids, especially ones with special needs, I want to keep my $3

        /s obviously

        • Buckminster FullerOP
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          1•3 months ago

          You are free to give an extra $3 in my name if you’d like. Thanks!

          • @Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works
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            2•3 months ago

            Fuck off, donate your own money in your name you callous waste of air.

            • Buckminster FullerOP
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              1•3 months ago

              I wasn’t the one bitching about not paying the $3 though. If you wanna pay it, pay it. I don’t want to, so I’m glad Musk is taking care of it.

      • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        28•3 months ago

        And it’s going to our childrens future.

        I’d happily pay that $3.

        • Buckminster FullerOP
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          3•3 months ago

          Your are totally welcome to pay that $3. You can donate it. But I don’t want to pay that $3.

          • @Alteon@lemmy.world
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            9•3 months ago

            What about that roughly $0.04 of your money so Trump could go to the Superbowl? I mean if we’re being nitpicky here…

            • Buckminster FullerOP
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              1•3 months ago

              I’m not cool with that either!

          • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
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            32•3 months ago

            You’re going to pay it, it’s just going to go to their pockets.

            • @nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works
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              24•3 months ago

              Crazy how dumbfucks think that this somehow equates to a tax reduction.

          • @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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            18•3 months ago

            What would you pay 3 dollars for? 3-4 dollars a week got me lunch as a kid bcz we were so destitute and broke. Taking that away means kids go hungry. But, kids only matter when they’re unborn, am I right?

            • Buckminster FullerOP
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              1•3 months ago

              No one is stopping you from starting your own charity to make up for it and you can also donate plenty of your own money to it.

              • @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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                13•3 months ago

                It never ceases to amaze me the callouses of some people, their unwillingness to help anybody else if it doesn’t somehow benefit them directly. It’s such a short minded way of viewing the world. You must be a very lonely person.

                • Buckminster FullerOP
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                  1•3 months ago

                  You must be a very lonely person

                  Because I posted an article and agree with cutting some govt waste? lol Ok.

                  Why would that have any connection to my social life?! lmao

                  My life’s awesome! So don’t worry about me.

      • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
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        17•3 months ago

        You’re giving it away straight to their pockets, because the next step is to funnel all that money to their personal projects

      • @jonne@infosec.pub
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        9•3 months ago

        They’ll give it to Musk instead. If past behaviour is any indication, Republicans will actually raise the taxes for anyone except the top 5 percentile.

      • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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        3•3 months ago

        Hope you’re a millionaire because there’s going to be tax cuts for the rich so the plebs can keep paying the same or more, it’s almost guaranteed.

  • @LuxSpark@lemmy.cafe
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    18•3 months ago

    When is ol musk going to get around to touching up the military?

    • @jonne@infosec.pub
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      12•3 months ago

      I hear the government is funneling billions to some sort of satellite internet thing that wouldn’t be economically viable without those subsidies. Maybe they should look into that waste.

  • @infinitevalence@discuss.online
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    11•3 months ago

    Lol don’t be fooled this costs way more than any “savings”. And it’s factually illegal.

    • Buckminster FullerOP
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      1•3 months ago

      And it’s factually illegal.

      Then no reason to be upset. It’ll just get overturned then, right?

      • @SGforce@lemmy.ca
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        15•3 months ago

        If someone torches your house down but your insurance pays out it’s all good, right?

        • @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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          4•3 months ago

          If your insurance pays out and doesn’t just refuse because fuck you.

      • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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        3•3 months ago

        Overturned by whom? The Trump admin already stated that the courts have no right to judge anything they do.

  • @_stranger_@lemmy.world
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    15•3 months ago

    He’s already wasted half of it:

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/usaid-inspector-fired-trump-freeze-b2696917.html

    • @alekwithak@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Damn.

      Tldr: $500 million worth of food spoiled after USAID funding freeze.

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