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Joni Ernst Proposes to Sell Millions of Dollars of IRS Firearms to Pay Off National Debt (www.breitbart.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You know, Trump could skip every other golf outing and save far more? Why isn't DOGE calling out this waste, anyway?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Corruption? It seems pretty obvious to me.

Also, how is a golf club that expensive? Or is Trump using tax dollars to pay his private company?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good point. Dem presidents shouldn't be able to golf either, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Not as their primary activity and not if they're going to be a fucking hypocrite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Millions of dollars with an M? Who's national debt would that be, Lichtenstein's?

[+] [email protected] -6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That doesn't mean pay off TOTAL national debt. It's like you selling your motorcycles to pay off debt. Doesn't have to mean all of it, just paying it down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fair point. Let's take a slightly deeper look. The annual interest on the US national debt is approaching $1 TRILLION. Any number starting with "M" amounts less than a tenth of one percent of that. So it won't "pay down" anything, it will just add a tiny drop in the bucket to one year's interest. I haven't done any math to estimate the problems resulting from putting a shitload more guns into circulation, but my guess it they would cost more than the benefits. But that's like, just my opinion, man.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So it won’t “pay down” anything, it will just add a tiny drop in the bucket to one year’s interest.

Agreed. But just like paying off personal debt, "any" is more than "none," so I have no problems with it.

I do have problems with both parties wasting money and getting us into debt in the first place, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Like I said tho - cost/benefit analysis. Introducing what I assume is a huge number of confiscated guns into the population will create costs downstream, not just moar freedom.