IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
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Why would you say "half" when you could say "500"?
500 Billion Dollars.
A trillion is larger than a billion, so half a trillion is a more rage bait headline.
Humans can’t fathom the vast distances of space. How are we going to fathom a trillion dollars?
at least, in part.
truly disgusting. I saw an article that fElon and Drumpf are taking away payments that orphans get because they have no parents. Meanwhile, half a trillion is probably being redistributed to fElon and drumpf.
You didn't see an article, you saw a screenshot of a tweet. As far as I can tell that was a lie. We should not be spreading lies when there are enough true horrible things they have done we could be talking about.
Unless I'm wrong and you're the one person on Lemmy that actually saw an article supporting that claim. I'd like to be wrong, if I am could you please link the article?
I think you're right. Maybe it was a screenshot. I can't remember.
500,000 millions
Pretty sure one trillion is a million millions.
Correct. I’m referring to the posts half a trillion.
Be that as it may, it’s a significant amount of money that will not be collected but will now trickle down… excuse me, I have a very hard time keeping a straight face hahaha
I think it's the opposite. We're all used to "a billion" now, even thought we can't really concieve of it the way we can, say $100. But a trillion is just space money. Just make it a gazillion.
500 Billion has real competitive traction - people are billionaires, this is more than them, etc. A trillion is something you have nanoparticles of, something very small.
“Billion”, sadly, is a term that nowadays conjures an individual human or corporate level figure.
“Trillion” is an economy level figure and suitably conjures an idea of how fucked up you all are.
IMHO.
yup. especially we like our ancestors for quite some time back have only dealt in thousands back when the richest dealt in millions.
Rage is the only reasonable response.
it's the direction the figure is no-doubt going. in six weeks, that estimate will be a lot higher.
'half a trillion' now is a very fair choice of wording.