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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumdonnie lost a billion dollars. now he wants to bring those business skills to the entire country.
thanks but no thanks, donnie!
just for comparison, the entire nasa budget in 1995 was $1.5 billion.
he single-handedly lost an amount equal to 60% of the entire nasa budget!
just think what he could lose if he was in charge of a multi-trillion dollar budget!
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donnie lost a billion dollars. now he wants to bring those business skills to the entire country. (Original Post)
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Journeyman
(15,033 posts)1. But just think: We'll lose all our money but we won't need to pay income tax for 20 years! . . .
(I'm sure there are some minds to which such a plan will appeal.)
bagelsforbreakfast
(1,427 posts)2. Yes - this is exactly what should be focused on!!!
It's a given he'd evade taxes - BUT - his business genius would drive us to 2008 part 2! MELTDOWN CITY! Even Republicans should be able to understand this (at least the ones with money - not the Joe Plumber types).
LAS14
(13,783 posts)3. Sounds like the start of a good ad.
Old Terp
(464 posts)4. Let's put this on a different level, daily
On average, he lost more than 2.5 million dollars each day for that year. I doubt that this was real money out of his pocket, but taxes on one day would have funded many projects, a week would equal block grants to states for various programs, and on and on.