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60 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 17h \ on: Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending Politics_And_Law
Assuming they aren't lying, you'll either want:
- a near-future version of this text to reflect these promised savings, or
- USD inflation to match the promised savings (as the budget and the savings are both expressed in that)
- The whole of the savings to be returned to the taxpayer (like a dividend) which will likely cause option 2 or worse.
So if Elon claims that $2tn was saved and yet $7tn was still spent, then inflation (including wages) shall rise to ~40%.
(edit: took the wrong baseline number)