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.”

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    31·
    21 hours ago

    Only 400,000 people would have to donate their entire salary for a year. Thats barely a small town in central Ohio. The debt crisis is basically over if we do that. #ProblemSolved

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      18 hours ago

      I don’t think that math works. If we generously assume each of those 400,000 make $100,000 per year then 400,000 x $100,000 - $40,000,000,000. That’s only $40 billion dollars. First poster was closer. To get $36,650,000,000,000, all 340,000,000 million Americans would need to pay $107,794.12 each.

          • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
            5·
            16 hours ago

            Eh, it’s all made up anyway. When you’re in debt a few thousand dollars, thats your problem. When you’re in debt billions or trillions of dollars, that’s their problem, whoever loaned you the money.