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    I love how he telegraphs his lies. “Which is possible,” means that it is not possible and people have told him that. “People are saying” means that it is something no one is saying or has said before it came out of his mouth.

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    Perhaps he knows he’s pulling numbers out of the air; but the MAGAts nod in agreement.

    Presumably to many of those 2 million, $5 million is quite an investment;

    nor, IIUC, is it citizenship, and as such, might still be liable for taxes in their own country.

    Other countries might be offering better terms, such as Canada, Mexico, UK, or EU members.

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      US is the only country that charges income taxes on income in other countries so yeah… I’m sure all those millionaires can’t wait to pay USA taxes for some reason

    • This.

      He probably knows (PROBABLY) that the numbers don’t add up. But he also knows that magats are not the smartest creatures, so they will believe anything their dear leader says, even if it’s a plain lie.

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    $10M is ridiculous. For $100k-$500k, you can buy citizenship in several countries that are better to live in than the US is in 2025.

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    I think it’s worth pointing out that “net worth” ≠ “liquid holdings” (money available to spend on a good visa). I remember the first time I spoke to a financial advisor and he told me that they (UBS) had calculated our net worth at a little over $850k even though our savings were ~$10k and our monthly burn rate was just about 100% of our earnings. Their fuzzy math is ludicrous.

    EDIT: All Donnie’s plan would do is instantly halve the value of the dollar.

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    Since they are surrounded by billionaires and multimillionaires they don’t realize how few of them there are. They are not the 1 percent, they’re the 1 percent of the 1 percent.

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    There’s about 300k people outside the US with net worth of $30M+, which is a reasonable estimate from someone who can get the tax break advantages associated with gold card to come live in this shithole.

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    Also, can you imagine the effect on the market of increasing the population by 3 percent and absolutely none of them contribute anything to the production of this country? They are all either coasting off of their investment portfolios or running companies in other countries. They would be parasites on the system.

    Btw, big numbers are hard to visualize. So for context of how big a population increase 10 million people would be all at once… If they put all of those rich fucks into a hypothetical new 51st state, it would be the 11th biggest state by population. They could build a new equally big and densely populated New York City (8.2 million people) filled to the brim with non-contributing fat cats, and form the remaining population in 40th largest state. If they formed a country, they would be more populated than Greece.

    Trump is talking about absorbing the population of entire countries. And not the kind of people that will work in fields and factories and pay taxes and contribute to their new home. No. These are the kind of people that will just consume and extort and lobby for more money and power for themselves. This is a nightmare scenario.

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    I think this probably betrays how he’s always tamped down his debts.

    By money laundering. Getting someone(s) to pay big on something not worth the price at a suspicious and unreasonable scale.

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    We simply let people poor people take out massive loans. Once in the land of opportunity they can make it all back again immediately.

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      it’s a parody of shitty, badly calculated political posts

      EDIT: Wait, I think it says that out of the 8~ billion people on the planet, outside the US, there are “only” 2 million people with a net worth of 5 million dollars.

      Thus, he can’t sell 10 million gold card visas.