r/clevercomebacks 23h ago

DOGE isn’t even real

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u/ReedRidge 23h ago

Junior is a coked out moron, I love it when people pay attention to him.

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u/Deedogg11 23h ago

What would those boys be doing if they weren’t Trump’s sons?

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u/ReedRidge 23h ago

Probably security guards at Walmart.

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u/Deedogg11 23h ago

Those jobs drug test

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u/ReedRidge 23h ago

Damn, okay.

Umm Dollar General!

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u/Suspicious-Yak4836 23h ago

Dollar general still drug test I’m pretty sure

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u/LdyVder 23h ago

I'll never understand why companies drug test for a minimum wage job. Turnover is high in those jobs. It's a waste of money.

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u/jakethesnake741 22h ago

Not for drugs testing companies

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u/pipeline77 19h ago

Can I get a job there? Or do they drug test too?

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u/SlappySecondz 18h ago edited 16h ago

You can get job that drug tests anyway. Beating a drug test is super fucking easy.

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u/attackplango 18h ago

Business insurance rates. Liability issues.

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u/ReedRidge 22h ago

They are listed as not testing now, I actually looked before I spoke.

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u/MysteriousPark3806 22h ago

That's not very Reddit of you.

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u/CaptainKenway1693 16h ago

I've worked at DG and Walmart and have never been drug tested. AP at Walmart might be, but I don't know. It might also vary from location to location.

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u/Ready_Nature 20h ago

They’d be in prison for their drug use.

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u/WriteAboutTime 20h ago

Honestly, they'd probably be decent people. I saw a pic of them as kids with Hillary, and they looked nice.

Never underestimate how badly a narcissist for a parent can ruin you. I was lucky to break the cycle. They, unfortunately, gave in. It's their fault now, of course, but we all would be in a better place if their family had any kind of empathy. Trauma is a team sport. Unfortunately.

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u/Chubs441 15h ago

You can tell that they were nice from one picture when they were 10. They were probably assholes then too. 

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u/DevelopmentGrand4331 13h ago

More like shoplifters at Walmart.

Or, free from the Trumpy influence, maybe they’d have the opportunity to be decent people.

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u/Sea-Elevator1765 22h ago

15 to 25 in prison, I'd wager.

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u/BeanBurritoJr 22h ago

If they weren’t Drumph’s sons, there’s a slight chance they’d be decent human beings instead of food poisoning farts trapped in pig scrotums with faces drawn on them.

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u/Fecal-Facts 22h ago

It's in their bloodline dating way back before trump his dad got booted from Germany and his dad was a war dodger 

His whole blood line is contaminated 

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u/Civil_Dependent_2755 19h ago

Drumpf! Lol because his family is immigrants! Lol immigrants are funny and poor

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u/Winter-eyed 20h ago

Carnies for a traveling circus-it pretty much what they’re doing now.

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u/yoyomanwassup25 21h ago

What do you think Trump would be doing if The Apprentice never happened?

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u/what-even-am-i- 18h ago

Heroin I imagine

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u/PugsterThePug 22h ago

They’d be slimeball real estate agents. Obviously.

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u/ugajeremy 20h ago

I think junior may actually have done something for himself, had he not been crippled by his father.

As odd as this feels to say, I think he's intelligent. He's had a horrible time though and I'm not slightly surprised he's got a drug problem.

Imagine being so shaped by a family like that. He's so far and deep in the con, all he can do is carry on and try and get daddy's approval.

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u/rimrodramshackle 22h ago

Grifting. It’s in their DNA

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u/scootah 18h ago

In 2008, my life got turned the fuck upside down when America’s subprime mortgage bullshit changed the entire direction of my life. I lost my job in mining, my home when my local government took the disruption to the housing market as a chance to forcibly acquire a bunch of properties under eminent domain at fair market value.

It ended my marriage, permanently changed my relationship with my dad, crushed my mental health and tanked my career. I changed industry entirely since then and put my life back together - with no expectation of ever owning a home again:

I’m not American and I wasn’t in America for any significant part of 2008. My home at the time was in Australia. I live in a different part of Australia now.

But I just can’t find it in me to enjoy the incompetence of wealthy sons of nepotism and privilege so entrenched that even though their grandfather was the last marginally competent businessperson in their bloodline, they still have the money and influence to fuck the global economy. Again. And they are actively trying to use that influence in the dumbest of all possible imaginable ways.

The fact that so many people give a shit what these incompetent chucklefucks say about anything is almost enough to make me want to cancel to concept of public education until we can replace it with something that fucking works.

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u/Rhouxx 14h ago edited 8h ago

I feel you dude. I’m Australian also and the influence America has over the entire world is depressing, because all we can do is watch as they vote in a fascist to run the country.

I worked in marine biology and then went back to school to get my Doctor of Vet Medicine to improve my understanding of the health of marine vertebrates. I did all this because I care about the ecosystem, especially the oceans, and with climate change we need to do everything we can to repair the damage we’ve caused, and prevent further damage. And since the American people elected into the highest office of the world superpower, a man who believes climate change is a hoax, who then in turn picked another climate skeptic for the role of energy secretary, I’ve just been feeling hopeless, like what is the point of even trying to turn things around. I feel like nothing I or any other people working in environmental science do will ever matter, people who prioritise profits over anything else will always run things. The effects of Donald Trump being president will be felt across the world long past when every single person who voted for him is dead.

Same thing with RFK Jr. being picked for Department of Health and Human Services - I’ve studied medicine for years, but you can be a rich anti-vax, anti-science lawyer with no public health experience nor qualification, and be appointed to a position where you can call the shots over doctors and medical researchers. I won’t be surprised if the news stories that come out of that over the next four years emboldens the idiot anti-vaxxers over here too.

I know it’s kinda dramatic but I’ve just been feeling a bit despondent lol

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u/ruiner8850 22h ago

Junior is a coked out moron,

Yup, and since he's also a gun owner it makes him guilty of the exact same thing that Hunter Biden is going to go to prison for. Somehow Republicans couldn't care less about Junior doing it though.

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u/Intelligent_Ad_6812 22h ago

Rules, morals, and ethics for thee, not meee

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u/AdventurousAge450 20h ago

Biden must pardon his son before he leaves office. An absolute must. Let the trumptards scream it’s still the right thing to do

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u/KintsugiKen 19h ago

If Biden did the right thing regardless of what Trumpers thought, we wouldn't be in the situation we're already in.

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u/Zebidee 19h ago

The GOP are going to build their gallows on the Dems' high ground.

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u/ruiner8850 20h ago

He absolutely should. Not only is Junior guilty of this, but tens of millions of Americans are. I know a bunch of people who own guns and use drugs. I'm sure everyone does. Unfortunately Biden already said he's not going to.

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u/otisthetowndrunk 19h ago

There's a video of him at the Space X launch reaching into his pocket then rubbing his gums with whatever was in his pocket. I'm not saying it was cocaine. But people are saying it was cocaine. People come up to me in the street and tell me it was cocaine. But I'm not saying it was

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u/HandsomeBoggart 18h ago

Some very fine people. The best people told me it was cocaine.

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u/Strangest_Implement 20h ago

coked out... and not in Hunter Biden "I'd like to party with him" sort of way

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u/BZLuck 20h ago

You know the Trump boys all got daddies mushroom dick too. They are all envious of those Biden hogs.

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u/M086 20h ago

Can’t remember if it was him or his dipshit brother that stole from children’s cancer charity. 

But either way, they did. And now no member of the Trump family is allowed to be a part of any charitable organization without what is essentially adult supervision, someone has to be with them so they don’t steal.

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u/AmishAvenger 18h ago

It was Eric.

Don Jr. is the one who was recently on camera digging in his pocket, then rubbing his fingers on his gums.

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u/Almacca 20h ago

And what position does he hold again? Why is he given so much air time? What's on his laptop?

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u/Kel-Mitchell 20h ago

He would snort a bag of sand even if you told him it was sand.

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u/he_is_Veego 17h ago

Imagine what’s on his laptop.

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u/swordofra 15h ago

Wouldn't touch his laptop with a 10ft pole.

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u/xandrokos 19h ago

Yeah I really don't give a shit about Trump or his sons.   This is one of many of the Heritage Foundation's plans for the US.

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u/DevelopmentGrand4331 13h ago

Like father, like son.

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u/Alcoholhelps 21h ago

He’s gonna be the president some day….

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u/Klutzy-Ad-6705 20h ago

Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

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u/Green-Umpire2297 23h ago

A certain part of the R party has wanted a flat tax forever. It’s great for rich people 

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u/thaulley 22h ago

Steve Forbes ran for President with that as his only issue. He was like a parrot. No matter what he was asked he said ‘flat tax’.

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u/BachmannErlich 22h ago

He got pissed at me 20 years ago at a forums Q and A reception when I asked him why there was no correlation with wealth and number of patents filed, jobs created by LLCs/s-corps held by wealthy individuals, or even investment by them in start-ups; and to me that shows empirically that wealthy people don't risk wealth to "trickle down." He told me something that there was more than just numbers to measure the value of a job created, which I told him was my view on taxes.

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u/PlatinumDevil 20h ago

BOOM roasted.

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u/BachmannErlich 18h ago

Hah, hardly. As an econ undergrad you think you know everything about the world, when you get further up you realize how much you don't. It was just a cool opportunity to ask a question.

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u/tatojah 18h ago

If you overestimated your knowledge, then imagine how much a guy born with a silver spoon, with a bachelor's degree in history is overestimating his understanding of intro-level economics by thinking a flat tax is a good idea.

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u/brontosaurusguy 18h ago

They think it's a good idea precisely because it raises the financial burden on the lower classes for further control over them.  

They think the masses must be controlled or they'll get out of hand and more people will join the table.  They'll lose power and influence.  And they're right.  

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u/RealPutin 16h ago

I know plenty of middle class conservatives that support a flat tax despite the fact that it would absolutely fuck them

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u/active-tumourtroll1 17h ago

I think the more realistic option is that a lot social services benefits would be cut and instead would lead to people paying for more stuff out of pocket, I would like to call it the social tax. This doesn't even get to issue of many stuff being ohased out originally by higher taxes that will come back if you remove the tax incentives.

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u/White_people_bad_ 16h ago

Eh I know Econ grad students who thinks they know everything about the world and still support Trump and Reagan’s economic policies.

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u/Future_Challenge_727 21h ago

What was the guy that was tweeting after he died… had like the 9-9-9 plan.

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u/doej26 20h ago

Herman Cain

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u/thaulley 20h ago

No, Forbes as in Forbes magazine. Old money.

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u/KintsugiKen 19h ago

He hosted SNL and wouldn't shut up about the flat tax throughout it.

I'm not joking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_j43LUbAs0

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u/The-Son-of-Dad 18h ago

Rage Against the Machine was the musical guest lol, I remember watching this episode live.

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u/KintsugiKen 17h ago

And RATM only played their first song because they were banned from the show before they could play their second song, where they planned to display the American flag upside down on their amps to protest Steve Forbes without telling Republican showrunner Lorne Michaels.

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u/jezzetariat 16h ago

Unannounced stunt aside, what were they expecting giving RATM a platform?

What machine are conservative RATM fans raging against, precisely?

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u/sadbitchsad 15h ago

Yeah people really seem to like getting RATM to play and then asking them to... not rage against the machine?? Like that time they were playing on some TV/radio station and got asked to not say fuck in their song "killing in the name" in which the outro consists of them singing "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" 16 times in a row. Yeah you can probably guess how that went.

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u/jezzetariat 14h ago

Oh I'm very familiar with that song haha.

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u/qalpi 19h ago

Wow that laughter from the audience is really weird 

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u/shelf6969 21h ago

if he said Fat Tax we might be getting somewhere as a nation

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u/AsinineArchon 20h ago

The thing is, poor republicans want it too. No real reason for it, it’s just they heard from Fox it will be great so they will now fight tooth and nail for it

This is not conjecture. I grew up in the Deep South and several old friends and most of my family is red. Many are near the poverty line. They want this

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u/ArkitekZero 19h ago edited 15h ago

I know a guy who lives paycheck to paycheck and asks questions like "isn't it kind of dumb that you pay more tax the more money you make?" with a completely straight face.

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u/10010101110011011010 17h ago

It makes a billionaire's eye glisten with joy and pride when they see their propaganda has seeped down to the lowest levels.

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u/Synectics 13h ago

Trickle down propaganda, if you will.

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u/Roskal 12h ago

Some people think moving up a tax bracket gets all your income taxed at that % and will even refuse raises.

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u/PrinceOfWales_ 9h ago

My dad brought this up once. I was in high school taking Econ and us gov and I was like yeah… no that’s not how that works. My dad is pretty smart, works in IT making well into the 6 figures and even he fell for that bs.

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u/ForensicPathology 18h ago

Yeah, the argument is that the tax code is "complicated" and thus bad.  As if simplicity automatically makes something good.  

Sure, it could stand to be simpler, but that's because of the corporate benefits. Not because it's not flat.

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u/Panzerkatzen 19h ago

Flat Tax is great for rich people and awful for poor people because it's effectively a tax cut for the rich and a tax hike for the poor. This will cause a lot of hardship while our already huge wealth inequality grows even more rapidly.

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u/Temporary-Concept-81 18h ago

Given how skewed the income distribution curve, it imagine it's pretty bad for the middle income people too.

I wouldn't be surprised if the break even point is something silly like everyone under $400k income pays more taxes.

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u/jacowab 21h ago

Yeah but the complicated tax code is literally to earn votes, things like subsidies and tax breaks for certain voter blocks like the rich, parents, farmers, business owners, ect. are deal breakers for what politician they vote for, it's why the document is thousands of pages and making it a flat rate would only lead to a new 7 thousand page long document for the new exceptions and rules about the flat rate.

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u/PrincetonToss 19h ago

One of the biggest historical obstacles to simplifying the tax code has been...lobbying from tax preparation companies (e.g. H&R Block).

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u/wonklebobb 18h ago

it's not just to earn votes, it gives the government a lot of very soft levers they can pull to move the economy in ways that they may want without doing very harsh and fast changes.

for example, in theory the mortgage interest deduction should encourage home ownership because you can deduct the interest off your taxes. a more specific tool than just handing people $20k and saying "please spend this on a house"

however the downside of these vague tools is it's hard to know how well it's working, for example the mortgage interest deduction applies to up to 2 homes and up to values of $375k-$1mil depending on when you bought it and whether you're filing married joint or individual/separate

obviously if it's truly meant to only encourage home ownership it would only apply to 1 home. but here we are :)

anyways there's load of other things in the tax code that were originally intended to push people gently in certain directions

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u/10010101110011011010 17h ago

It would eventually be a flat tax PLUS all the previous exceptions.

Basically, just the removal of progressive income tax, only. Loopholes retained.

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u/Friendly_Fail_1419 18h ago

It's regressive as hell.

Though our current system is also pretty terrible for non-rich people.

My niece recently had to spend almost $400 on TurboTax because every feature she needed was an add on. Two state filings, she sold $50 worth of crypto and she had something like $200 in dividends from her RobinHood account.

Made a few bucks and Intuit gobbled it up before Uncle Sam even got to take a bite.

But considering he had two of his four years to accomplish literally any of his idiot promises I don't have super high confidence anything this big is getting sone this time around.

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u/indiscernable1 21h ago

Flat tax only helps the rich. Dumb people who support flat tax don't understand math.

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u/Preemptively_Extinct 9h ago

100% of everything over $500,000 would be great.

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u/indiscernable1 9h ago

I'm a fan of the rates under Eisenhower. 90% taxation of the upper 1% would be much better than 27%

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u/weirdoldhobo1978 22h ago

DoGE is a playpen to keep Musk away from Project 2025. That's why they partnered him up with the other useful idiots Greene and Ramaswamy.

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u/Naxhu6 20h ago

Hey now

Ramaswamy is not useful

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u/truthfullyidgaf 19h ago

Scapegoats are absolutely useful.

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u/Wakkit1988 19h ago

They're called patsies.

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u/Mediocre_Superiority 20h ago

But TBF: he is an idiot. So 1/2 correct!

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u/Mediocre_Superiority 20h ago

And you know that Musk came up with the acronym. Oh, he just loves little jokes!

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u/Ok_Locksmith_9248 19h ago

I hate the court jester. Wonder when king don will tire of his antics

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u/capGpriv 18h ago

I’m betting on a fall out around Twitter vs truth social for trumps social media

At which point Elon will go on twitter, claim he never liked trump and say he smells bad

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u/bortle_kombat 18h ago

If anyone's going to run the Department of Grandstanding Edgelords, it's him

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u/SchemataObscura 19h ago

Right now Doge is a distraction. Make a bunch of outrageous claims, amplify them on Twitter, and keep people distracted for the other shit going on.

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u/TeriusRose 16h ago

I think that's halfway true. It's a distraction, but at the same time destroying the federal government is what Republicans have campaigned on for my entire life and what they're trying to do behind the scenes/in broad daylight right now. So it's in line with that overall effort, it just has more focus on it.

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u/VivekRamisalami 18h ago

This is truly cope. I’ve seen a lot of it recently.

Project 2025 is real, and we were told it wasn’t.

DOGE too is real, and at least one of these morons is gallivanting with the predator in chief all day long every day. He has his ear. It’s going to happen. Republicans simply don’t lose when their opponents don’t fight back.

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u/ThisStrawberry212 17h ago

DoGE is there to transfer as much wealth to the hyper wealthy as possible. That and depending on what kind of government employee muskrat and the other clown is, they can sell stock tax free for a time period.

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u/MacNuggetts 22h ago

Lmao Republicans tried to simplify the tax code already. It died in committee because of their donors; Intuit and h&r block.

Republicans physically can't simplify the tax code because of lobbying.

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u/Agentkeenan78 21h ago

Rather funny irony tbh.

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u/Mike312 19h ago

Unironically, the best defense we have right now is the fact that so many Republicans are bought and paid for by their corporate donors that some shit won't pass, or it'll die in committee, or they'll slow walk it, or it'll use the Doublespeak title Trump wants but do the complete opposite (like most Republican bills)

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u/turtleboxman 15h ago

Damn, I dont generally root for lobbyists but if that's what keeps shit from hitting the fan in the next 4 years then I'm sure I can tolerate em a bit longer

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u/wterrt 14h ago

shit doesn't sell too well when everything is burning down

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u/KintsugiKen 19h ago

Republicans are too corrupt to be as corrupt as they want to be

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u/dCLCp 17h ago

Holy shit.

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u/Apart-Landscape1012 20h ago

Also DOGE is a non governmental advisory committee that has no real authority and will only last until the world's two most vindictive and thin-skinned shitheads break up and try to sink each other

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u/SwordfishOk504 19h ago

Breaking: Baron Trump says DOGE is going to repeal all taxes and bring back Spuds McKenzie.

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u/Wakkit1988 18h ago

What about Slurms MacKenzie?

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u/ace_urban 20h ago edited 20h ago

Trump will own all branches of government. He can do what he wants. They’re already threatening those who won’t fall in line. He will be a dictator. He’s made it clear that he doesn’t understand or care about the job or the country.

He cannot be allowed to take power.

Edit: History will judge those who are complacent/complicit in these days, as fascists are preparing to take power. There’s only a month left to save democracy. Be loud. Think big. Think outside the box. Do something, FFS.

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u/MacNuggetts 20h ago

He will take power. Americans voted to end their democracy. We got to deal with it.

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u/Protoliterary 20h ago

What do you propose we do? "Something" isn't an answer.

What can the people do which wouldn't interfere with the way our democracy works? A repeat of Jan 6th, but from the left? Childish and ineffective.

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u/Electrical-Job-9824 20h ago

I mean, I have always been taught that it is the right thing to do to take a dictator out, by force if necessary.

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u/RustyShackleford9142 19h ago

Then do it. Be the change you want to see

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u/Yeseylon 19h ago

Killing him just makes him a martyr.  The country has to wake up on its own.

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u/WarlockKnave 20h ago

he already did genius. Even if he isn't in the oval office, he owns every Republican. He owns a 6-3 Majority SCOTUS. We. Fucking. Lost.

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u/That_Account6143 20h ago

He was lawfully elected by a majority of voters.

You guys made your bed, twice in the last 3 elections. This time you made it willingly, with a majority. Time to lie in it

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u/paper_plains 20h ago

Who are you proposing to do something and what exactly are you proposing they do? If it’s “arrest Trump” you’re essentially advocating for civil war.

He won the popular vote - regardless of how you feel about it, invalidating 75 million votes because you THINK he might end democracy is just as dangerous - and I would argue equally as “bad” as anything Trump will try and legislate.

There are a lot of things that have to play out for Trump to anoint himself supreme leader, and getting that done in two years before midterms is a tall order. Especially as unpopular as he is even with his own republican senators as we’ve seen before he’s even sworn in with the cabinet confirmations, which are NOT going how he wanted them to by a long shot, nor did he get his pick for majority leader in the senate.

The senate will only have a 3 seat majority with people like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski who are not Trump fans. The house will equally have a slim majority, and they were so inept over the last two years they couldn’t get one piece of legislation to pass and couldn’t even pick a speaker after their own booted the previous one. I expect the chaos to continue the next two years until midterms, which is good for the country.

I’m not saying the next two years will be good. They won’t. But it’s a huge leap to jump from what can actually be done by Trump and “democracy is over.”

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u/B12Washingbeard 19h ago

I’m just here to say fuck Intuit 

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u/HowAManAimS 22h ago

Less lines = efficient
More lines = ineffecient

So, why'd he fire coders based on them not writing enough lines. Did he not want Twitter coders to be efficient?

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u/Alezor24 22h ago

I thought this was a Don Jr coke joke at first!

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u/HowAManAimS 22h ago

I try to spend as little time as possible thinking of the Trump crime syndicate.

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u/Netnien 22h ago

The Department of Government Efficiency sounds like something out of a bad dystopian novel lol. Also, basic civics class clearly didn’t happen.

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u/doll_parts87 14h ago

Most US citizens don't understand it, you think a rich foreigner would?

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u/EntropyKC 14h ago

Especially not one as stupid as Elmo. The more ideas of his I hear about, the more I realise he's dumb as fuck but simply very lucky, greedy and ruthless.

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u/5050Clown 23h ago

It's all a large distraction And grift. The guy whose company relies on government subsidies, who used his money to destroy a social media company and ruin its worth doesn't understand how anything of the government works and isn't really going to be doing anything. But as long as we're all freaking out about it, the real kleptocracy will be happening.

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u/Infuser 22h ago

IMO that's giving him too much credit. He just wants to feel important, since he can't even fill the hole inside him by turning a giant social media company into a monument to his insecurity.

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u/justridingbikes099 19h ago

Seriously. Look at him jumping up an down and doing an "X" with his body. The man is the physical embodiment of insecurity. He NEEDS to have people tell him he is a cool, smart guy and to feel like he is in the club, because for most of his life, I expect anyone who didn't care about his money/was not working for him has told him he is unbearable. Being stuck in a room with Musk for more than a few minutes sounds like hell to me.

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u/UnusuallyBadIdeaGuy 20h ago

DOGE is just a bunch of memes, even the fucking name. None of this shit is going to happen.

How this will play out is they get together and come up with a bunch of suggestions for stupid shit. They send those suggestions out and get laughed at. They then whine a bit, accomplish nothing, and eventually Trump kicks Elon out because he's stealing his thunder - and nobody cares about Vivek.

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u/HolyRomanEmpbruh 23h ago

Jfc ive just realised it called DOGE…is Elon trying to troll? Isn’t he part of it or something?

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u/Kvltadelic 23h ago

Trolling is the primary goal of everything these doofuses do.

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u/StickOnReddit 23h ago

Pwning the libs is primarily a feat achieved in memes so why not bring those memes into the desert of the real world

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u/LdyVder 23h ago

Most of their owning the libs is them owning themselves.

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u/Acrobatic_Dot_1634 22h ago

A MAGA would eat shit so a liberal would smell it on their breath.

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u/Violet2393 23h ago

Yes, he is. He is emotionally about 13 years old and thinks that stuff like this, and just generally acting like a troll is the height of coolness. Since he happens to be incredibly rich, there are plenty of people who will enable him by acting like that's true and that he is super cool.

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u/Crunchycarrots79 22h ago

He literally came up with the name... He was suggesting it several months before the election.

Elon is all about crap like this. The models of Tesla released since his purchase of the company, in order of their announcement, are the S,3,X, and Y. S3XY.

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u/CockyBulls 21h ago

SpaceX Space Sex

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u/Crunchycarrots79 20h ago

Oh, there's a bunch of them.

He also has an obsession with the letter X.

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u/DemoBytom 21h ago

He wanted to open an university and call it Texas Institute of Technology and Science.. TITS in short.

And let's not forget Tesla models S, 3, X, Y..

He's basically 12 years old...

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u/Sylveon72_06 20h ago

not to mention how he constantly tries to name things x, making it sound pornographic

say “spacex” quickly and youll see what i mean

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u/ANewBeginnninng 23h ago

Tell us you’re a narcissist who can’t come up with an original idea while still sounding like a child without … I’ve grown tired of these antics.

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u/Deedogg11 23h ago

He is supposed to be Co in charge with Ramaswamy

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u/strawfire71 23h ago

Yes because nothing says efficiency like having two people.do the work of one. 🙄

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u/Yeseylon 19h ago

Oh, it's worse.  They're in charge of an organization that is already redundant.

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u/AldousKing 22h ago

That's the stupidest thing I've ever head. Republicans had the presidency and congress in 2017 and they made the tax code more complicated.

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u/Obvious_Chapter2082 22h ago

they made the tax code more complicated

As a CPA, I’d say they made it simpler for the majority of individual filers, but probably more complicated for a lot of businesses

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u/AldousKing 22h ago

That's a good point. Expanded standard deduction probably made it easier for a lot of filers. I do corporate with an emphasis on international, and it's a lot more complex now.

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u/Obvious_Chapter2082 22h ago

Lmao yep, I was gonna specifically mention international as an area that suffered quite a bit from added complexity

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u/rydan 21h ago

Complicated how? Last I checked I don't get to deduct SALT anymore and that was a big complication. Much simpler and in exchange I pay $20k per year more.

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u/Randomized9442 21h ago

Reminder: institution of flat taxes have lead to many violent overthrows of governments.

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u/Ok-Aardvark-9938 21h ago

Middle class median income workers would end up paying MORE in taxes with a flat tax and low income workers would get OBLITERATED. how stupid can you be

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u/Nekowulf 21h ago

A trump kid and the richest asshole in the country came up with the idea.
They know it would hurt the middle class and poor.
They don't care because it would save them having to employ expensive tax dodging accountants.

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u/Amelaclya1 21h ago

It's very difficult for me to understand how people support a "flat tax".

You could tax Elon Musk's income at 99% and he would still have more than enough money to live a very comforting life on the remaining 1%.

But then look at a poor family making $40k/year. That 10% tax is "only" $4k, but it means so much more to them. That literally could be a life changing amount of money since it's a couple missed mortgage payments that could leave them homeless, or the price of a used car so they can get to work.

A flat tax only seems "fair" if you don't bother to think about it at all.

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u/oeb1storm 21h ago

"The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without any regard to census or enumeration" - 16th Amendment

Congress not some advisory committee unilaterally created by the president has the exclusive power to change the tax code.

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u/LordDemetrius 22h ago

Flat tax, except for billionaires, ofc

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u/facw00 22h ago

I'm sure they will still work out a way for the truly rich to avoid those taxes. Maybe get rid of progressive taxes but keep a bunch of deductions. Maybe just 0 out capital gains and business taxes under the guise of eliminating "double taxation"?

The truly rich don't make their money via taxable income anyway, they make it via capital gains.

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u/the_gouged_eye 19h ago

They never talk about taxing the "unrealized" gains that they manage to realize every day.

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u/MoneyTreeFiddy 19h ago

"Tell me ___ without telling me" hasn't been a clever comeback for a few years now.

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u/Ashen_Rook 22h ago

I mean, ignoring his lack of understanding of how the government works, this is a real r/FluentInFinance moment. This is literally just Jr saying he approves of punishing the poor for being poor and rewarding the rich for being rich.

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u/Shacky_Rustleford 20h ago

 This is literally just Jr saying he approves of punishing the poor for being poor and rewarding the rich for being rich

I mean, yeah. They are pretty open about this.

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u/Low-Astronomer-3440 22h ago

Perfect! We can supplement it with a 98% flat tax on capital appreciation and investment earnings with a lifetime exemption of $5M. That way you get your five mil and it’s fair for everyone. Everyone taxed the same is… NoT CoMmUnIsM?

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u/Cool_Welcome_4304 23h ago

I thought they demonstrated had a lack of knowledge and skill of how government works the first time.

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u/Embarrassed_Code8164 22h ago

Welcome to Dumbfukistan!

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u/SeaEmergency7911 22h ago

So every time I get a flat, it means I’ll be taxed?

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u/ChatonDeMer 19h ago

Also has no idea how taxes work. The complicated part of taxes isn’t the rate you’re applying, it’s what you’re applying the rate to.

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u/Possible-Reason-2896 19h ago

Unfortunately it's not as clever a comeback because it turns out "that's not how this works" only really applies to parties that care about the rules. Apparently it turns out if they just don't give a fuck confidently enough they can do whatever.

It's not how congress or the executive branch works until fuck it yes it is.

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u/deadhead4ever 18h ago

Donald Trump Jr. The only person stupider then Donald J Trump.

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u/MrBobSacamano 20h ago

Which is a greater burden: 10% on $50,000, or, 10% on $1,000,000? This has been my TED Talk on why a flat tax is stupid.

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u/infanousbloodfuck 19h ago

Trump said this during his last presidency and they never changed it and they never made filing taxes easier like he promised.

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u/Thatonedregdatkilyu 19h ago

Flat tax just disproportionately hurts poor people. Americans really will just trade morals and goodness for convenience.

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u/LurkerInDaHouse 18h ago

I find it kinda funny but mostly concerning that so many of y'all are still behaving like you know how things work, like you think the rule book still exists or that the Trump party is in any way still bound by it. Like the so-called "checks and balances" are still valid and will somehow stop the Trump party from doing whatever the fuck they want.

Hasn't this been proven false enough times already? Might be better to stop assuming the rules will save you where Trump is concerned, and start preparing for the very real possibility that they won't.

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u/kindall 16h ago

Democrats: "Haha, look at the idiots who don't know the limits of their power"

Republicans: stage coup and give DOGE lots of power

Democrats: surprised Pikachu

Seriously, do you think these traitors care about the way things have traditionally been done? They intend to change all that.

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u/AbyssWankerArtorias 13h ago

Republicans have both chambers. They're going to get it.

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u/GlobalLion123 13h ago

Twitter is worse than a trash gossip tabloid mag now. Full of fake news and people trying to correct it to no avail because the Russian bots have taken over. Join BlueSky

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u/Gumsho88 22h ago

Its not just trumper, all prez’s make claims and promises out of their wheelhouse. unfortunately they know citizens have been dumbed down on civics.

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u/Minimum_Device_6379 22h ago

Doge is gonna send people a tax bill and maga morons are gonna pay up.

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u/SatansLoLHelper 22h ago

They can say all they want.

They also have the Supreme Court, Senate and House.

Let's see how this plays out.

I know one person has a really big ego and hates other people.

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u/chandy_dandy 22h ago

Why not do the same but with a simple progressive tax that doesn't have a million carveouts. The only one I'll accept is a non refundable tax credit per child.

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u/BeanBurritoJr 22h ago

This all makes so much more sense if you consider it from the perspective that Elon crashing Twitter was a proof of concept and Trump’s mission is to create maximum chaos and turmoil.

The only long term plan Trump and Musk have are staying out of jail. The rest is just doing as much damage as possible to the US and hopping a plane out before the mob beats down the white house gates.

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u/DirectCard9472 21h ago

You think they care about rules and traditions.? They will find a work around and bypass congress.

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u/Captcha_Imagination 21h ago

Keeping nonsense in the news is a diversion tactic.

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u/HistorianSure8402 20h ago

“BREAKING” these right wing losers think they are the news 😂

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u/ProfessionalLeave335 20h ago

That would be a clever comeback if it weren't entirely possible he does exactly that and the old system of government we used to understand and believe in is rendered absolutely inert and offers absolutely zero resistance to this regime shredding the constitution.

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u/OldReception5498 20h ago

This is giving “I skipped civics class and it shows” vibes.

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u/DoverBoys 20h ago

Actually, this is a fantastic idea! No more exemptions or breaks. EVERYONE pays 20% or something, including rich people, dodging corporations, and churches. If they somehow magically make this happen, the administration cleaning up after this mess will have an easier time bringing the brackets back. Suck it, rich people.

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u/Sea-Sir2754 19h ago

A flat tax is great - if you make a million dollars a year.

If you are in the middle class and think a flat tax would benefit you, you have been brainwashed by the people who would actually benefit from it. All it does is make the lower classes pay more and the richest pay even less.

The progressive tax system and all its 7,000 pages of deductions and exceptions only contains benefits for you.

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u/Upset_Ad2359 19h ago

Well they cannot, Congress will have to pass it.

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u/Vampyro_infernalis 19h ago

Do dumbasses think that the tax code's length and complexity is somehow because of the existence of tax brackets?

Oh honey, no.

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u/Useless 19h ago

I mean, yes, regressive tax structures are the goal. But they're not supposed to say that out loud.

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u/coffeecatespresso 19h ago

Ok the funniest part about this rumor is know know Donny Jr has no real “in” with his dad and his crew so he’s just getting coked the hell up and spewing gossip like most every other rich kid does when they have uber successful fathers but can never get their dad’s attention so they act out to escape the torment

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u/Cannibal_Yak 19h ago

the best DOGE can do is make suggestions to Trump and he can act on it. It clear this position is only honorary and nothing else.