The U.S. Treasury is a charity case. At least super rich Warren Buffett believes it is, when he announced in Time magazine that he would match any donations made by Republicans that help pay down the U.S. debt. Not a bad idea. Get some good PR and make a dent in the deficit. A small dent but at this point every penny counts, right? Well, you can contribute, too.
What If We All Got On Board?
It’s a simple question actually. What if everyone donated $100, $500, or $1,000 to help pay down the deficit. We’ll be paying it out of our pockets or paychecks eventually. Why not just get it over with now? We could even budget it out over the next 12 months.
For as little as $8.33 a month you can make a difference in the U.S. deficit!
Doesn’t sound to bad. It’s cheaper than that Netflix account you are wasting money on and it’s going to a good cause, keeping my future taxes low.
If we go by the Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers, there are just over 240 million (the civilian noninstitutional population) able-bodied people in this country capable of working. Thus capable of donating. We should probably base it off of real workers (just over 150 million) but even people not receiving a pay check are getting some type of government benefit through unemployment, social security, or medicare. It’s certainly in their best interest to keep the deficit low or risk having these benefits cut. Continue Reading…