A $5k DOGE dividend is unrealistic because the amount of DOGE...

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    A $5k DOGE dividend is unrealistic because the amount of DOGE savings won't be enough.

    But what is the point of distributing the savings instead of cutting down the deficit?

    It just shows that DOGE isn't about cutting the deficit, it is about retribution and demonstrate that prior administration has been utterly wasteful (not that that is not untrue).

    $5k won't be enough. Can't see that beyond one time stunt.
    from Forbes

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    That $5,000 check relies on a highly ambitious (and potentially impossible) target for DOGE to cut that much in spending. DOGE so far claims it has cut $55 billion—using Fishback’s same thread of allocating 20% of DOGE savings to the dividend checks across about 79 million households, that would result in about $137.50 checks per household if they were sent now — and that’s even before accounting for the potentially inflated $55 billion figure, as Bloomberg estimates DOGE’s savings thus far are likely just $8.6 billion, which equates to a dividend check of just $21.50.
 
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