fuckin lol
Another day, another politician that thinks Trump doing something they do means Trump should get all the criticism instead of realizing theyâre both wrong
The difference here is that Trump spends tax payer money for his golfing and AOC spent her own paycheck on a video game to unwind. They literally arenât the same thing at all
Right, where do you think that paycheck comes from?
Were you born this stupid or did you have to work at it?
Ok, just to be clear, do politicians get payed with tax money or not?
If you honestly think a government employee spending their own salary is functionally identical to charging leisure trips to your own golf courses to an expense account and billing the Secret Service for being there, just because theyâre both paid for with taxpayer money, I canât help you.
But whatâs the difference in the end? They both paid for something with taxpayer money.
Okay. Itâs very simple: When the government disburses money to its employees in the form of a salary, the transaction where the taxpayer is concerned is concluded. The taxpayer has paid the employee for services rendered. What that employee does with that salary after that isnât the taxpayerâs business, since the taxpayer already got what they paid for.
To put it another way, you wouldnât argue that Doris from the DMV is âspending taxpayer moneyâ when she spends some of her salary on a pedicure and claim itâs the equivalent of a presidential golfing trip, or that a soldier buying a case of beer with his salary is a waste of tax money. Because you are paying them for the job they did.
In other words, itâs not fucking taxpayer money anymore.
It is, however, still taxpayer money when it is part of an account set aside for expenses incurred in the execution of oneâs duties, and the President uses it to pay himself for taking vacations, and to pay himself again for the taxpayer-provided security detail.
And even if I were to play your stupid false equivalence game: At $300 per console and a game price of $59.99, AOC would have to buy 369,455 Nintendo Switches with a copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons for each to reach the $133 million racked up by Trumpâs golf trips. So even if you were to blubber about how itâs all a tragic loss of taxpayer money either way, thereâs your fucking difference you goddamn moron.
Weâre done here.
Ah, now I understand. Thanks for explaining. But please refrain from using insults.
All right, yeah, I got a bit heated; I honestly thought you were asking these questions in bad faith. And Iâm sorry that youâre getting dog-piled.
Can people reblog this version actually
Trump doesnât take a salary, case closed
1. Wrong.
2. Irellevant to the formerly mentioned point.Â
