The Treasury Department wants you to Venmo it to help with the $36.65 trillion national debt.

On Wednesday, NPR’s Jack Corbett pointed out that there was an option on Pay.gov, the Treasury’s online payment platform, where Americans could go to throw their Venmo dollars at the gargantuan national debt. You can also use PayPal. The page is titled “Gifts to Reduce the Public Debt.”

  • malloc@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    Be a billionaire, get a few of those No Preset Spending Limit cards (Amex centurion), charge $36.65T spread across those NPSL cards, then fuck off to your private island. Then watch as the world burns 😈

    Shit posting aside …

    The Treasury has run this program for years, and people have donated $67.3 million since 1996 …

    What’s the benefit? Tax deduction?

    Any regular person throwing money into this needs a mental evaluation with emergency protection order.