• nooneescapesthelaw
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    3 days ago

    So the government is collecting 500 billion less this year. They didn’t lose anything because they never had it in the first place

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      Incorrect. By law that money is owed to the government as taxes. Doge hasn’t changed that. They have only ensured they don’t have the staff to collect.

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      That’s like saying if I don’t pay my loan the bank hasn’t lost any money.

    • Katana314@lemmy.world
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      Aha! Just like my local food bank didn’t lose funding - it just didn’t receive its next funding installment! Good job on the useless pedantry, Batman!