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Elon Musk Endorses ‘DOGE Dividend’ Payments — Would Send Out $5,000 Checks to Every American Taxpayer
Gateway Pundit ^ | February 19, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 02/19/2025 9:09:02 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: usurper

Maybe bring back Work-fare?...............


41 posted on 02/19/2025 9:31:58 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

If they’re saving $3,000,000,000,000 and if you divide it by say, 300,000 households that means $10,000,000 per household.

I think $5,000 back is not burdensome.

That’s 300,000 X 5,000 or 1,500,000,000 actually only a small percentage of 3 trillion.


42 posted on 02/19/2025 9:32:01 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: Red Badger
"The prospect of a $5,000 DOGE Dividend in 2026 will incentivize many to re-enter the labor force in 2025 in order to be eligible for the DOGE Dividend."

Interesting idea...

43 posted on 02/19/2025 9:33:59 AM PST by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: posterchild

the deficit and debt are theirs, not ours


44 posted on 02/19/2025 9:34:33 AM PST by imabadboy99
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To: Red Badger

Probably better off rerouting the savings to those programs that could use it and paying down the national debt.


45 posted on 02/19/2025 9:38:39 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: Red Badger

There is going to be a big problem with cutting out retired people. Many of them are not net tax payers. Most of them have seen their income seized by the feds over their working lives to fund this waste.

A better plan would be to right-size government to essential services and cut taxes and fund the remaining agencies appropriately. Use the savings to pay down the debt.


46 posted on 02/19/2025 9:40:12 AM PST by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: Red Badger

That’s OUR money so YES Im all for it..we should not have to pay taxes for 10 yrs after all the fraud and corruption they have done with OUR MONEY so yes Im all for this, I want my refund!


47 posted on 02/19/2025 9:45:38 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: albie
Give it to actual tax payers

Some will say pay down the debt but the taxpayers aren't the one's that created that debt so why should their money be used to pay down politicians giveaways?

I agree - give it to ACTUAL tax payers, not earned-income credit bs or politicians, but ACTUAL EARNERS and TAXPAYERS!

48 posted on 02/19/2025 9:47:20 AM PST by frogjerk
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To: yuleeyahoo
Use the savings to pay down the debt.

One question? Why should taxpayer money be used to pay down the debt they didn't incur but politicians did?

49 posted on 02/19/2025 9:48:27 AM PST by frogjerk
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To: Red Badger

Call it Reparations for Enslaved Taxpayers. Make it a percentage of total income taxes paid, capped at something like $1 million. Send every taxpayer a check for some amount, not necessarily $5K.


50 posted on 02/19/2025 9:49:03 AM PST by Orosius (A“Wake America Up Again )
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To: Red Badger

I could do a lot with that $5K. Like letting it sit long enough to have it grow to $7K.


51 posted on 02/19/2025 9:49:24 AM PST by equaviator (If 60 is the new 40 then 35 must be the new 15.)
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To: imabadboy99
the deficit and debt are theirs, not ours

Exactly! The not so good "stewards" of our hard earned money need to stop using the peoples money to bail out their failed social experiments.

52 posted on 02/19/2025 9:49:46 AM PST by frogjerk
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To: Red Badger

DUMB

As long as we are running deficits, any additional “spending” is simply printing money out of thin air. This will increase inflation (al la 2020 COVID stimmies)

Trump is receiving such bad advice it almost seems like sabotage.


53 posted on 02/19/2025 9:50:05 AM PST by nitzy (I don’t trust good looking country singers or fat doctors.)
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To: Lizavetta

Hand over those biden stimulus checks to charity did you?


54 posted on 02/19/2025 9:50:15 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: Red Badger

No. Do what was promised... fix the debt.


55 posted on 02/19/2025 9:53:57 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: Red Badger

5k to every citizen is what? 1.7 Trillion dollars?

We really need to pay down the debt.

Keep finding the waste and fraud, but lets get the 36 TRILLION in debt paid down


56 posted on 02/19/2025 9:54:43 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Red Badger

Musk just having fun and pulling chains. And it’s working, read the comments.


57 posted on 02/19/2025 9:55:35 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: equaviator

>>>>I could do a lot with that $5K. Like...<<<<..............buying a couple dozen eggs?...😏


58 posted on 02/19/2025 9:56:52 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I would much prefer the debt be reduced. There are probably millions of US citizens who spent 40 or 50 years paying federal taxes, but now are living on such meager retirement funds, they are no longer considered tax payers. They wouldn’t qualify for this rebate. We’ve watched what this corruption and graft has done to our country and would like to see tangible proof that the ship is being righted.


59 posted on 02/19/2025 9:59:05 AM PST by Bearshouse (Malo periculosam, libertatem quam quietam servitutem. *Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Red Badger

So, the the kid who got his first McDonalds job at age 16 that paid a couple hundred bucks in federal income tax will get the same 5k that a 65 y.o. small business owner who has paid a couple million in federal income taxes will get.

Gotta love those socialist redistribution ideas.

Cut off the spigot, prosecute the fraudsters, clawing back as much as possible, to include punitive damages, and put it all on the debt.


60 posted on 02/19/2025 9:59:38 AM PST by fruser1
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