Just wanted to hop and remind folks that Trump, the oldest nominated candidate in American history, spent about 20% of his presidency on a golf course to the tune of $142,000,000 pulled straight from our taxes.

    • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      11 months ago

      There are so many of us it’s spread pretty decently so probably just dollars if that much. But imagine what 142mill could have done for, say, a few key pieces of rural infrastructure. Or schools. Or whatever you want. That’s not a small amount of money when you’re talking smaller populations with poor access to resources.

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        11 months ago

        don’t forget the secret service leasing an entire floor of trump tower–money going directly into trump’s greasy pocket

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      11 months ago

      There were ~164 million employed people. So at a cost of 142million was about $0.89 a person.

      For comparison the national endowment for the arts had a 162.25 million dollar budget in 2020.

      The DOD budget was 721.5 Billion.