$5000 times 154,000,000 taxpayers equals $770 Billion. We need deep deep cut but here’s $800 billion dollars just sitting around let’s give that away. MAGA cheers. 🤷🏽♂️
They've already got that, via Treasury. If you've ever gotten a direct deposit tax refund, or if you are a SS recipient, military member (active or retired), gov't employee (active or retired), disabled veteran, it's already in the system.
Historically stimulus checks (even Bidens) either go to paying down debt or driving scarcity in already impacted goods (like tomatoes). Basically they either do nothing or drive up inflation.
They can give me 10K, 20K heck 1 Million. Still Voting Democrat down the line as long as that Dem is not a criminal. Then Donate to Democratic Parties to help them win. So yeah send me that stupid check so we can make sure Democracy will win and send Trump to Jail.
There ain't gonna be no check. That was pandering claptrap conman grifter bullshit.
If I got a fucking check, it'd be going toward a dp on a different house--sorry but this one is nearly falling over. It would all come back out later for taxes anyway, plus some-- 6 of one, half dozen of another.
How are they going to send a doge check when they can’t even send tax return checks lol I don’t know about you but I’m not gonna hold my breath for a promissory note for imaginary doge fraud findings
And making me pay back benefits, while homeless and unable to work due to a medical event that left me permanently disabled. I guess I'll just live on one of RFKjr's inhumane wellness farms
I imagined myself there, very similar boat. Feel every bit of your pain. Sorry 😞. Old brain worms wants my medication too. Trying to ban my SSRIs that I have been taking for 15 years. They have helped a lot.
Lmk when we rise! Look at what Brazil is doing. Working for them
There will be no checks. He just said that to shut people up. The only people who will get anything are billionaires and corporations. This is a class war.
In order for Ceasar to get the plebians on his side, after taking over their democracy, he gave them a plot of land. Are we going to give up our democracy for $5,000? He's trying to bribe us. I'm giving my money to the lawyers who are fighting him.
It would be great if this could become the biggest record class action law suit against Musk for bullying & harassment and failure to adhere to employment practices. Like a 2 million strong action!
That one time $5000 check, should it actually ever come, would succeed in kicking millions off of programs that provide housing assistance, food and healthcare as DOGE makes it nearly impossible to reapply when the $5k is gone.
Your $5k check will not happen. Unless Trump decides to get us further in debt. And if he does, that money is more like a loan from the future that you'll need to pay off.
I think a better use might be to seniors or homeless folks. All of the federal works I know actually voted for Trump 🤷🏼♀️. Some of actually been let go with zero animosity…. make no sense to me.
This is the reverse of the Nigerian prince email scam from the early 2000s: send them 10s of thousands of dollars in federal income tax and they’ll give you a pittance in return.
Honestly, the fake Nigerian prince was more generous.
No one is getting a $5000 check. If only 100mil people got a check that's 500bil. If we take musk's number of 55bil saved in the first month(which is a lie) it would take 9 months to pay for it. Completely defeating the purpose of DOGE because nothing would be saved n only 100mil people paid.
I heard someone do the REAL math on this…it boils down to less than a cup of Starbucks coffee. But aside from that, I thought the whole point of DOGGIE was to cut the deficit. Double speak.
There will never be a cheque. They would need to have a real number for their "savings". Not the made-up crap they post as receipts. They will talk about the cheque for 2 years, then blame the Democrats for the missing cheque.
$5K check↔️RUBBER: Visit the bank where the check’s funds must be withdrawn, approach Bank Teller-inquire IF funds are in the bank account, sign back of check with SQUIGGLE MARKS, CASH the check: DO NOT DEPOSIT CHECK INTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT, I.E., EXPOSING YOUR BANK ACCOUNT AND ROUTER TO BAD ACTORS!
If you get a check I’m gonna sue Elon as this isn’t how the federal government is saving money lol if they do send them it’s all part of the convincing the idiots they got their backs all while stealing the Fort Knox gold. Just watch lol
Great idea! IF that should ever happen (doubtful) let's all donate at least a good chunk of it to a worthy cause, like Allison's idea above. Or the ACLU. Or Democracy Docket. Or Planned Parenthood.
So, to point out the obvious, even IF there were all these cost cuts to be found, if you turn around and pay it back out, umm, that's not a cost savings, you're still spending the money. Smoke and mirrors . . .
I was thinking along the same lines if this check actually materializes. Or donate to food pantries and other charitable orgs to help those who will need it that way because of the mass firings.
What’s so crazy is that all of these unlawful firings are going to cost us all a lot more money. It’s very similar to not offering universal health care. We end up paying for it in the end and it’s more expensive treating people thru emergency rooms vs. offering them preventative care.
The money doesn't exist in the first place. The spreadsheets are a complete lie. The numbers aren't correct and some of the money is already paid and can't be clawed back.
If it happens, it’ll come directly from musk. He has nothing better to do with his enormous wealth than to interfere in elections. Though I suppose in some way he’d just be giving us back some of the money he’s stealing from the government as we speak.
I’ll be using mine to buy more kitty litter bathrooms for the children I’m indoctrinating. If I have enough left over, I’ll buy them all tickets to a drag brunch and then we’ll all go get sex change operations in the afternoon. Or I could go to Walmart and buy a single egg. Tough choices.
Raising the debt limit, perhaps? Can't do it to help people, but for performative "proof" of the savings created by firing swaths of the federal workforce, it will suffice. just as long as their tax cuts are not touched.
Just spitballing. The Dems and Rep on tv are enemies . but do they collaborate in the back rooms. Like the Dems say we want cuts but have to act like we are opposed to them publicly. Because they sure aren’t slowing it down. Am I wrong. I know they in the minority but the senate can stop things.
And who cares if we get checks? Let them eat cake right? I guess they are thinking it worked before 😼 Tell the people that no longer have jobs how far that 5k will go.
It’s just insulting from this DOGE nasty people to offer money to others knowing that this money is giving because there are a thousands of people that lost their jobs!!! Nasty and insulting behavior!
This $5K check BS is the latest bright shiny object to deceive the masses. Why 5K? Why not 25K or more? It's all just made-up hokum with no basis in fact. If you're claiming you want to reduce debt why not use it to pay off debt?
All very stupid. But that's MAGA.
There won’t be any checks. Also, they can shove any tiny bullshit handout and keep their greedy hands off the social security money I spent 45 years paying into.
There won't be any DOGE dividend checks. That was something to appease people who realize their neighbors are losing their jobs and they're stopping cancer research and VA assistance. That money is all going toward tax cuts for the wealthy.
Sadly, the American taxpayers are going to end up footing the bill for the government to "defend" itself against these righteous lawsuits. The costs should be billed directly to dump and muskrat and their accomplices!
We're doing childhood cancer research. My dear friend from grad school has a son (now healthy and in his 20s) that survived. We're donating to their charity.
NEVER, will they give away money! They’re dangling a carrot for his cult! Firing 1,000’s of people w/no severance was a cruel move that gives them a power rush! I remember Trump and Elon talking about being able to say “your fired,” and they laughed! They’ve made me hate, where I once had none.
There will never be any doge checks. That’s absurd bribery to get the maga base to go along with the lawlessness. We have 43 trillion dollars of national debt. They need a surplus first before they could send any checks and so far they have more costs than savings anyway. It’s all bogus.
Oh, there might be DOGE checks, but look to the details, to see who gets them. It will be the ultra-rich, because they will be having their money "returned" to them. It's another way to transfer money to the ultra-rich.
That's what I think too. If they cut any checks they're only go to people who actually paid in on prior tax returns. That will exclude a lot of folks who actually need this money. An awful exchange of our governmental services for such a paltry sum.
but it is all a sign to show "all these parasites are being forced to pay, and all the good people are getting back what was unjustly taken from them" -- it is all a part of the greater performance I fear :(
It's going to be both. And with the DOGE check, I expect a bill being given to the poor for all the services they "abused." So the checks are both PR, but also a way to ferment control.
It's not to registered MAGAs, it will be based upon wealth, how much money you make. It is going to be another nod to them "we are taking their money" -- showing everyone what DOGE is really about
This is an effort to pay us to justify taking those dollars from quality and deserving public services. BidenHarris gave us stimulus after Trump’s COVID fuckups to a global crisis. This is just an ugly different kind of bribe.
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When truumpp started hounding 🇨🇦..our B.C. mp cancelled a $1000. Rebate to all.
He messed more than his diaper
Propaganda to keep people quiet.
None of their savings is real. There is no check coming. Musk is simply gutting the agencies that regulate his businesses.
He and Trump will privatize everything and make themselves trillionaires by slashing, and running the government services into the ground,
If I got a fucking check, it'd be going toward a dp on a different house--sorry but this one is nearly falling over. It would all come back out later for taxes anyway, plus some-- 6 of one, half dozen of another.
I’d rather have Medicaid, SS, National Parks, etc. for always than a one time quarter flip in the grand scheme of things
IF we were to even get it
No sense at all and I love $5k, but dumb!
Lmk when we rise! Look at what Brazil is doing. Working for them
Musk and Trump are liars.
Trying to buy loyalty.
Not everyone nor everything is for sale.
Honestly, the fake Nigerian prince was more generous.
https://youtu.be/C8JgHp3vLBI
Here’s the money shot—and rumor has it in Alaska that people were voting for the $10K PFD.
Hope people aren’t holding their breaths.
Also, we will never see a $5,000 DOGE check.
Nice savings! Esp in a year the IRS is collapsing. . .
All very stupid. But that's MAGA.
that was weird back then
we got 300 dollars. it did not change anyone's lives and i can't even remember why they did it
i tried
To give everybody in USA $5,000 would cost $1tn. Which, of course, would drive rampant inflation, wiping out the benefit very quickly.
Don’t count on giving it away soon!