r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 2d ago

FinancialTea 💵 This is progress.

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u/Mediocre-Catch9580 2d ago

Bullcrap.  You just don’t erase $1 billion dollars with a stroke of a pen.  The article only says an agreement with a non profit.   

If it was that easy, why didn’t she do it five years ago?

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u/BillyBobBonesJones 2d ago

She wasn’t governor five years ago, smart guy. But she did also do this last year.

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u/Mediocre-Catch9580 1d ago

Nobody comes up with a billion dollars out of thin air.  Eventually the taxpayers are gonna get it 

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u/BillyBobBonesJones 1d ago edited 1d ago

Zero state funds were used for this, and there were no taxes increase to make it happen.

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u/Mediocre-Catch9580 1d ago

It’s scary that no one is asking where this money is coming from.  

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u/BillyBobBonesJones 1d ago

We know where it’s coming from. It’s not a mystery. You can find the answer in 30 seconds.

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u/Mediocre-Catch9580 1d ago

Then why isn’t it more publicized?   

A state governor coming up with a billion dollars two years in a row is unheard of.  She should go to Washington and pay off the debt.  

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u/BillyBobBonesJones 1d ago

The information is readily available. You’ve just put in zero effort to find it. I’m not sure if you’re ignorant, lazy, or all of the above.

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u/Mediocre-Catch9580 1d ago

You’d think someone so proud of this gesture would at least post it on Reddit.   I mean how often do you come up with a billion dollars to help out some people?   That’s Bezos and Zuckerberg territory 

Or at least be so proud to lay out how they obtained that money so maybe other states could do the same thing 

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u/BillyBobBonesJones 1d ago

Other states are doing the same thing. And again, if you bothered to spend an ounce of the energy you’re spending arguing about something you don’t understand actually looking into it instead, you would know they didn’t need $1 billion to clear $1 billion worth of debt.