A reclusive billionaire, anti-tax crusader and major financial backer of Donald Trump has been named as the anonymous private donor who gave $130m to the government to help pay US troops during the federal shutdown that is now in its fourth week, according to the New York Times.
The donation, which equates to about $100 per service member, appears to be a potential violation of the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits federal agencies from spending funds in advance or in excess of congressional appropriations – and from accepting voluntary services “except in the case of emergency involving the safety of human life or the protection of property”.
Potential penalties for violations include both administrative and criminal sanctions such as suspension or removal from duty, fines and imprisonment.
Your upvote ratio on this comment is deeply concerning, and reinforces the point many others are making.
To an american, there’s always an amount of money they will sell their morals and values out for. Most of these up votes are from americans, or westerners who have fallen for american propaganda.
To pretty much everyone else, they would have enough money already. Why waste time pursuing more money when it will literally change nothing in your life.
I think most people understand I’m not happy about it. I wish it weren’t the case but it’s true, it was smart for him. That’s exactly what they always do.
Rich fucks will screw over the general populace to make an extra dollar.
Fucking over the general populace for money is not smart. I dont know how much more simple I can make it. People who think its smart to do that, whether they do it directly themselves or not, are part of the problem. Consider reprioritizing your values and what you consider to be a smart move.
I think you’re misunderstanding their point here. They’re using “smart” in the sense of “an efficient method to achieve a specified goal”, where the goal in this case is “make more money”, and the method is “by whatever means possible”.
No matter how you twist it, what this person did is likely an efficient route for them to reach that goal. So in by the above metric, it is a “smart move”.
Its like you both think if add enough caveats that its actually smart. What I’m saying is, is that the caveats are excuses that allow people to turn an obvious negative into a positive. Not everything can be a positive “if you just look at it the right way”. Thats absurd, and shows that your morals change depending on the goal.