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What should be done with DOGE savings?

Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:07 pm
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
132617 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:07 pm
Set up an escrow account for future "emergency" needs?

Use it as a cudgel to convince congress to cut spending?

The good news about the executive reining in spending that fall into the "waste, fraud and abuse" category is it has a direct healing quality on inflation.

Inflation is caused by too many dollars chasing too few goods.

If DOGE can escrow 1 trillion dollars that's one less trillion dollars chasing goods and services. That has deflationary consequences. This is awesome for the regular baws and bawdetts with families.

And if Congress refuses to pass a budget and just rolls with the CR with a COLA attached like they have been doing since 2008, just place all that spending into an escrow account as congress continues to fund "waste, fraud and abuse" categories.
This post was edited on 2/12/25 at 1:09 pm
Posted by jizzle6609
Houston
Member since Jul 2009
14215 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:08 pm to
A white mans march for equality.
Posted by TrueTiger
Chicken's most valuable
Member since Sep 2004
76398 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:08 pm to
Give it back to the taxpayers.
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
132617 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:09 pm to
quote:

Give it back to the taxpayers.


Fund tax cuts.
Posted by idlewatcher
Planet Arium
Member since Jan 2012
86430 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:09 pm to
Use it to imprison dissidents of the MAGA agenda
Posted by BoudinChicot
Member since Sep 2021
1605 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:10 pm to
Pay down the debt.
Posted by ksayetiger
Centenary Gents
Member since Jul 2007
69669 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:10 pm to
Eliminate federal tax (IE, the IRS)
Posted by Wally Sparks
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2013
31490 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:10 pm to
quote:

Pay down the debt.
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
21122 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:11 pm to
Put some of the money towards the national debt. Finish the border wall. Hire more ICE agents.
Posted by umrebel2009
Member since Feb 2010
7764 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:11 pm to
should be used to fund a Fauci style study on libs
Posted by tide06
Member since Oct 2011
16572 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:11 pm to
We owe $30T in debt, and have a massive deficit.

Don’t shop for a new car when you have $100k in CC debt.
Posted by Tmo Sabe
GA
Member since Mar 2022
899 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:11 pm to
maybe try to fund SS/Medicare a bit longer before they run dry
Posted by SingleMalt1973
Member since Feb 2022
19175 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:12 pm to
Build camps for,the Commies
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
132617 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:13 pm to
quote:

Pay down the debt.



I think what you mean is, keep the Federal Reserve from printing more money to service debt due.

Regardless this has a deflationary impact. It removes dollars from the economy, which needs to happen.
Posted by Hodag
Northwoods
Member since Sep 2024
1083 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:13 pm to
I am pretty sure that our government operates 12 months at a time.

Or 3 months, then 9 months.

Or 3 months then 3 months then 6 months like this FY.

There is no "DOGE Savings Pile of Scrilla" that is left at the end of the day.

Best case is the waste, fraud, and abuse is exposed and then next month when Congress gets together to write a 6 mo CR and next September when they get together to maybe write a budget for the first time in decades they merely spend less money.

That is what the DOGE counter means on the DEBT CLOCK website. It isn't a literal pile of cash, it is the total amount they have deemed WFA and if cut the American people would save next FY.


That is my uneducated understanding of the matter.
This post was edited on 2/12/25 at 1:17 pm
Posted by Gus007
TN
Member since Jul 2018
13237 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:14 pm to
Yep! Pay down the National debt.
Posted by SlayTime
Member since Jan 2025
1329 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:14 pm to
Build trebuchets to launch bureaucrats and illegals out of the country.
Posted by TriStateAreaFootball
Member since Dec 2024
907 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:14 pm to
Nothing. It just lowers the deficit.


Unfortunately, this country can’t afford tax cuts if we ever want to pay off debt.

Knowing Republicans, we’ll cut taxes significantly and keep the deficit exactly where it is despite the massive spending cuts from DOGE.
Posted by DownSouthJukin
1x tRant Poster of the Millennium
Member since Jan 2014
29819 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:15 pm to
I’d like my money back.
Posted by MSTiger33
Member since Oct 2007
20968 posts
Posted on 2/12/25 at 1:15 pm to
All on black is the obvious answer
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