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In regards to Trump's allowance for Trump accounts.
Today | Jonty30

Posted on 02/25/2026 2:34:37 AM PST by Jonty30

I think the idea of Trump accounts, to allow tax free savings for specific self-funded social benefits that aren't taxed, is the way to go. It always has been.

Keep them reasonable, so the billionaire class can't sock away billions of dollars of untaxable income but allow it high enough so that it can provide for the average person so that he self-supports himself and isn't supported by the taxpayer.

As long as the account is used for the specific purpose intended, any drawings from it remain tax free. However, if it is drawn for other purposes, it becomes taxed as income.


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1 posted on 02/25/2026 2:34:37 AM PST by Jonty30
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As long as the account is used for the specific purpose intended, any drawings from it remain tax free. However, if it is drawn for other purposes, it becomes taxed as income.

How many bureaucrats will we need to hire to enforce that?
2 posted on 02/25/2026 3:38:13 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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No worse than any other IRS requirement to document income, I reckon.


3 posted on 02/25/2026 3:49:25 AM PST by Jonty30 (I always ask AI stupid questions to avoid the smart lists for elimination. I want to surprise it.)
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Documentation of expenses sounds so cashless.


4 posted on 02/25/2026 3:54:36 AM PST by Recompennation ( Deeeeeeeeezout)
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Perhaps, just expand the rules regulating Roth IRA’s? It’s already in place.


5 posted on 02/25/2026 3:56:53 AM PST by Fireone (1. Avoid crowds 2.Head on a swivel 3.Be prepared to protect & defend those around you 4.Avoid crowds)
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Trump accounts = Couples making a whole lot of America 250 whoopie. Keep it clean. I don’t want to pay for fraudulent births. For far too long, we’ve been paying for the Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and unemployment benefits for people who have already died. That’s all we need is to have to shell out for babies who were never even conceived.


6 posted on 02/25/2026 4:14:39 AM PST by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: Fireone

Whatever is the simplest and effective, because the point is to encourage self sufficiency.


7 posted on 02/25/2026 4:40:48 AM PST by Jonty30 (I always ask AI stupid questions to avoid the smart lists for elimination. I want to surprise it.)
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The newborns will have 18 years to watch their accounts grow. Many will take the money out and pay the taxes. Too many are conditioned to do the wrong thing.


8 posted on 02/25/2026 4:41:45 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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True. I was the recipient of a US Savings Bond but I cashed out as soon as I could. It went towards my share of the rent and maybe two weeks worth of partying, and I think I must’ve done it just because I could.


9 posted on 02/25/2026 5:04:31 AM PST by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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Why can’t we just eliminate the income tax and then we don’t need to worry about goofy mechanisms like this?


10 posted on 02/25/2026 5:10:45 AM PST by dinodino ( Shut it down anyway. )
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Sounds like HSAs.


11 posted on 02/25/2026 5:40:52 AM PST by misterdarcey (Abandon all nuance, ye who enter here.)
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The US didn’t have income tax until 1917. Thanks to, wait for it,
a democRAT.
We have become indentured servants to the political class. We work, they take our money and give it away.
Stop the income tax now!!


12 posted on 02/25/2026 6:32:35 AM PST by 9422WMR
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To: equaviator

It’s Tobacco Road all over again.


13 posted on 02/25/2026 10:34:09 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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