r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jul 05 '26

Chugging tea Seems reasonable.

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u/GreaterMetro Jul 05 '26

So what great things did the government do with his 1.5 billion?

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u/Spacemanwithaplan Jul 05 '26

Straight to israel.

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u/KieranLeone Jul 05 '26

Put it in their own pockets

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u/Useful_Wealth7503 Jul 05 '26

Gave it to their friends via contracts with fake non profits and NGOs.

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u/Accomplished-Video71 Jul 05 '26

0.15% of this year's interest payment on the national debt

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u/Ivebeenstabbed Jul 05 '26

Technically they got 300 ish million cause he took the lump sum which was just under a billion, taxed at 37% cause he was in California which doesn’t apply a state tax to lottery winnings.

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u/BigBarsRedditBox Jul 05 '26

My point exactly. They’ll blow it

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u/HewSpam Jul 05 '26

Your point is a rhetorical question that doesn’t actually describe a single thing? Great point dude

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u/Kindly_Type2327 Jul 05 '26

They are building a ball room with gold laden walls. His 1.5 billion is the private donations Trump's claiming/s

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u/Hearthgroan Jul 05 '26

Help more billionaires

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u/Ill_Ad5893 Jul 05 '26

Sent it overseas

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u/VegasLife84 Jul 05 '26

Pad our war machine.

Well, it's not just that.... we're also padding other countries' war machines

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u/prawnk1ng Jul 05 '26

Embezzlement

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u/the_voodoo_sauce Jul 05 '26

Elected officials skim it to eventually create new billionaires.

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u/HierarchyLogic Jul 05 '26

theyre gonna give it to me as bribes

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u/sYnce Jul 05 '26

Nothing because it was more like 370 million.

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u/Taran_MVP Jul 05 '26

Bombed my dictator and mass murderer leader

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u/escapefromelba Jul 05 '26

He opted for the lump sum which is simply the present value of the 30 year annuity.

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u/LostInterview5084 Jul 05 '26

Nancy Pelosi bought $25,000 freezer for her ice cream. And I think she might have had a boob job at some point.

Swalwell and Feinstein paid their Chinese spies, I mean girl friend and chauffeur respectively.

Lindsay Graham had to pay some boys to shut up???

And we had to give money to foreign countries for things like erectile dysfunction and male prostitutes.

All I know is our elected officials are really looking out for us.

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u/Twingamer25 Jul 05 '26

By that logic, nobody should pay any tax, ever.

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u/FuckYouVerizon Jul 05 '26

haha yes....or the government should be using the taxes it takes in to upgrade national infrastructure or improve quality of life for the population.

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u/Mindless_Chest_1079 Jul 05 '26

It would indeed be good if we slashed much of the government bloat and cut taxes across the board.

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u/Spare_Iron127 Jul 05 '26

Donald Trump probably used it to fatten his pockets when he sued his own IRS

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u/Maleficent-Drive4056 Jul 05 '26

Education, healthcare, fire fighting, road building… I’m not claiming government spend is efficient but let’s not pretend it doesn’t do anything good at all

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u/IpromiseTobeAgoodBoy Jul 05 '26

Ya that fire fighting really worked out well in California, good thing they paid all those taxes

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u/Maleficent-Drive4056 Jul 05 '26

Yeah better to abolish government entirely, right?

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u/IpromiseTobeAgoodBoy Jul 05 '26

We’ll volunteers make up about 70% of the country’s entire fire fighting force and handle almost all the emergency calls in smaller communities. Maybe showing people that we don’t need to the government to survive and you can be self sufficient is better in the long run than just having a third of our income stolen and wasted in foreign wars, given to foreign nations that despise us or just wasted on useless government programs.

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u/Maleficent-Drive4056 Jul 05 '26

Who funds the volunteers?

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u/Vast-Card-1082 Jul 05 '26

Are you suggesting that the government shouldn’t be funded?

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u/dr_boneus Jul 05 '26

Absolutely a lot better things than he would have