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Get Ready for your "DOGE Dividend" Tax Refund! [1]
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Date: 2025-02-20
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When all else fails, baffle them with bullshit Bad Math …
Initial reports hyped the DOGE Checks, to be returned to “Taxpaying households,” as $5000.
More sober analysis of their Dodgey work however, has come up with a slightly different refund check amount ...
Trump approves the ‘D.O.G.E dividend’ tax refund for US taxpayers
President Donald Trump just signed off on a tax refund plan that could send billions back into the pockets of Americans. The ‘D.O.G.E Dividend’, named after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (D.O.G.E), will return 20% of the savings from Musk’s cost-cutting initiative directly to taxpayers. Trump confirmed the plan during a Miami Beach event on Wednesday, speaking to a nonprofit backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. “There’s even under consideration a new concept where we give 20% of the D.O.G.E savings to American citizens and 20% goes to paying down debt,” Trump said. “The numbers are incredible, Elon, so many billions—hundreds of billions—and we’re thinking about giving 20% back to the American citizens.”
[...] How much money will taxpayers actually get? While the White House claims D.O.G.E has saved $55 billion, independent reviews don’t support that figure. Documents posted by the initiative on X show savings closer to $8.6 billion, which means the 20% dividend payout would be about $11 per taxpayer—a far cry from what many expected.
MSN via www.bing.com — Feb 20, 2024
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When I first heard this reported on an NPR this morning, I thought:
Geesh, all this chaos, for a miserly 11 bucks. Where will I spend it? I just don’t know.
Wait until MAGA voters get their “DOGE Dividend” checks …
Can’t imagine how they rationalize this one:
Hey it’s a night out on the town! Yee Haw!
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