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.
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Wonder how many times he golfed after Biden became President. I pretty much guarantee it’s less because he’d be golfing on his own dime at that point.
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Someone want to do the calculation for how much this cost the average American taxpayer?
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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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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.
Still, the average taxpayer spent $.23 per year for a supposed millionaire’s golf games.
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I would pledge to spend exactly $0 of tax money on golf if I were president. Imagine if that money instead went to filling pot holes, adding lanes to congested freeways, adding solar panels to the roofs of federal buildings etc.
Adding lanes has been shown not to reduce congestion on highways, but I’m with you otherwise.
There are places where it would help and places it wouldn’t. Making a blanket statement saying it doesn’t help is obtuse. Imagine if all freeways were reduced to 1 lane. Congestion would be worse, right? Well, someone had to add lanes to get us to our current state, right?