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.”

  • MNByChoice@midwest.social
    7·
    13 hours ago

    Strangely, I don’t feel my priorities are reflected in any budget passed during my lifetime, and so I don’t feel the need to donate. I say “strangely”, as I tend to follow Socrates’ thoughts on the matter. Just not here. Guess my limits are low.

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    31·
    20 hours ago

    Man you folks love that trickle up. Just passed tax breaks for the rich and now the poors gonna fix the debt to save daddy’s country.

    Maybe check your couch for the money.

  • malloc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    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.

  • mr_account@lemmy.world
    11·
    21 hours ago

    If every man, woman, and child would just donate a humble $90,000+ we’d have this debt paid off in no time

    • 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·
              17 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.