Would You Like Us to Spend Your Tax Dollars on Meals on Wheels or a Billionaire’s Yacht?

HydraGT2 weeks ago

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Please take a few moments to let us know how you’d like your tax dollars spent by the Trump administration.

1. It’s important to me that my money supports…
a) public television
b) national parks
c) irrigation for the Mar-a-Lago golf course

2. In this era of climate crisis, the government must invest more in…
a) green and renewable energy
b) electric and solar-powered vehicles
c) plastic straws

3. My priorities, as a taxpayer, include…
a) investment in our public schools
b) availability of scholarships for higher education
c) providing government subsidies for the world’s wealthiest, smartest, and most virile man, Elon Musk

4. Infrastructure, to me, means…
a) fixing our roads and highways
b) improving public transportation
c) pouring millions of taxpayer dollars into the Trump family hotels, resorts, and properties

5. Government grants for the arts are essential because…
a) art enriches our lives
b) art increases our ability to have empathy for one another
c) art should create flattering portraits of our leaders, not like the one in Colorado, which was so unfair and distorted, and the work of the radical left.

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6. Government should be involved with disease prevention efforts such as…
a) encouraging and developing vaccines
b) helping with healthcare costs
c) treating measles and bird flu with vitamin A, raw milk, and the power of prayer

7. The most important component of crime prevention should be…
a) improving public safety
b) increasing the cash flow going to for-profit immigration prisons
c) full pardons for the ~~violent insurrectionists~~ heroic patriots who ~~stormed~~ took a self-guided tour of the Capitol

8. I would like to see more government support for…
a) the American car industry
b) the American farm industry
c) unregulated cryptocurrency primarily used by drug smugglers, grifters, and Peter Thiel

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9. I would pay higher taxes if…
a) I knew it would go to housing the poor
b) I knew it would go to helping children
c) I knew it would fund yet another week of golf for President Trump

10. Federal programs that help seniors, such as Meals on Wheels…
a) should be preserved—we must support people in need
b) should have their budgets increased—we are not doing enough
c) should transition into a program, which, instead of providing food for seniors, would provide $Trump meme coins to select UFC and Joe Rogan fans

11. My tax dollars ought to be used to increase cybersecurity because…
a) cyber crimes are on the rise
b) identity theft is a serious problem
c) wait, did someone named Vlad just leave our Houthi PC small group chat?

12. Government spending should be monitored by…
a) a healthy system of checks and balances
b) transparent and open data when it comes to federal expenditures
c) an unregulated agency of people with nicknames like “Big Balls” who want to gut Medicare so there’s more money for Kristi Noem’s ICE hair extensions

13. My preferred way of knowing how my tax dollars will be allocated is…
a) via a presidential address
b) through a mailed letter from the government that outlines and explains the spending
c) a tweet from a high-as-a-kite billionaire ranting about the “woke mind virus” that includes ten exclamation points, four emojis, and some words he made up

14. Paying federal income tax is the responsibility of…
a) all Americans
b) the haters and the losers
c) everybody who doesn’t have the last name Trump, Musk, Bezos, or Zuckerberg, lol

15. Tax money should help reduce the deficit so that…
a) we can have a healthy economy
b) we can pay back our debts
c) sorry, but nobody in the executive branch currently knows what “deficit” means, or, ironically, tariffs, but so what / who cares?

16. Paying my taxes feels bad when…
a) the government is so brazenly corrupt
b) the government is so brazenly incompetent
c) the government spends so little money on sending Vice President Vance to countries where nobody will talk to him