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US government debt is on track to surpass $50 trillion by 2033. That means $5.2 billion is piling up every day. (finance.yahoo.com)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (5 children)

So there was this little program that I read about on Reddit the year before or the first year of COVID (in the USA) called the "Affordable Connectivity Program".

If you were poor enough or already qualified/signed up for some other government assistance programs, the program would reduce your internet bill by about 20~30 dollars a month. Last year, it seems like Congress decided not to extend funding to this program.

But 95 Billion bucks for Ukraine and Israel instantly passes, just to set the money on fire.

[–] FigMcLargeHuge 1 points 7 months ago

I have a friend who's mom passed away last year. He is still working through her taxes, but he had to deal with the IRS going back to a 2020 settlement his mom had with the IRS about her 401k for that year. Long story short, he had to pay $27 to settle up with them, which was interest that they forgot to calculate. At today's pay rates I think I can unequivocally say that someone at the IRS spent more than $27 worth of time to collect this on a 4 year old transaction with a now deceased person, but like you said, with no questions asked or accountability required we just toss billions of dollars over to another country. Yet we are literally harassing our own populace for their dead relatives $27...

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