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by dylan604 611 days ago
and in the 3 seconds it took to read you comment, the interest on the debt increased more than this "gift"
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It takes about 30 seconds for the US National Debt clock (https://www.usdebtclock.org/) to tick off $1 million, so almost 2.5 days to tick off $7 billion. I'd say $7 billion covers much more than 3 seconds of interest.
even in your "correct" math, your comment doesn't really improve the ridiculously small amount of moving of a needle that this would make
It does improve it, by several orders of magnitude. If your point is strong enough to make without exaggerating, then use of hyperbole can only stand to distract from the point.
I mean... so I just noticed the "US Total Interest Paid" clock. That takes about 45 seconds to tick over $1 million, so $7 billion covers ~1% of the interest payments in a year.

That seems like a sizable contribution for a single person in a country of 330 million.

Great, so now all we need is another 99 people with similar donations and we could cover the interest for a year. Then you need to continue to do that every year forever because you have yet to make any movement on the principle
Why do you care? The country has never paid back this debt, will never pay back this debt and no-one expects it to.
That's my point. It is ridiculous to think that $7b is anything but a drop in the bucket. While $7b is a big number to mere mortals, it is chump change in terms of national debt.
This wasn’t a donation. This was a fee for providing a society that allows him to accumulate so much.
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