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Trump admin reportedly considers paying each Greenland resident up to $100K amid US takeover talks

1d 14h ago by lemmy.world/u/MuskyMelon in politics from www.aol.com
  1. Get paid upfront cause Trump famously won't pay for shit.

  2. Reject the US occupation anyway.

They would be very foolish to believe Trump would actually pay them that money. A Trump never pays his bills.

Maybe Trump will go in the same location as Tywin. Even if not, I recommend that be the rumour anyway.

Wouldn't be the first time the Danish killed a king on the toilet

Are you saying that the Danes have precedence for presidents?

(Or "heads of state", but that sounds as good)

LOL.

Most people will receive at least $100k in health care in their lives.

You'd still be better off as a Dane.

American here. I lived in Denmark for a few years and this is 100% correct.

~5.6 billion USD, to

  • get your free healthcare stripped,
  • get your secularism stripped,
  • get your land polluted,
  • and to get killed by rogue cops.

Right... Millions US citizens are starving but he wants to pay foreigners loads of money to join the US. That's going to work out great! The US has a great track record when it comes to natives. They probably all will be deported to an El Salvador prison or put in a bordered off reserve on top of a landfill.

Ah yes a financial promise from Donald Trump. Rock solid by all historical accounts.

I wonder how many people are still waiting on their million dollars Musk "offered" for votes.

He never paid?! 😄

Ya know, I bet those residents could start a bidding war if they wanted to. Why take $100k from the US when Canada might give you $150k, or the EU might give you $200k a piece?

Unfortunately, you can't have a bidding war when the highest bidder has no intention of paying.

That money will never be paid, even if the Greenlanders are suckered into it.

Is he trying to pay the shareholders of Greenland above market price so they’ll be willing to merge with the US?

What the fuck is this even?

$100K? So anywhere from 3 months to 5 years worth of American medical expenses?

With insurance too

Called it: https://vger.to/discuss.tchncs.de/post/52374672

But wow, just 100k? I had forgotten how cheap Trump is.

I'd love to know the conditions for the payment to happen. Are they going to do what? Force a referendum? They can't. Are they gonna force people to leave after the payment? With that money? Where to?

"we can't afford healthcare for all" but can try this stunt

Feels stupid. Pay with what, printed paper?

Lowballing, just like every damn billionaire grifter.

Do any of their sources explicitly state the payment will be in cash? I bet Trump makes up another shitty crypto token and figures out a way to carve out a fee on each transaction for himself.

You can give $100k to all homeless Americans and they would go homeless again after 5 to 10 years.

"What’s exciting is that the research is clear that these cash transfers are helpful, and the big concerns that they might disincentivize employment or contribute to inflation were not substantiated in our evidence review.”

PN3’s recent evidence review looked extensively at various programs that put money directly in the hands of families, from studies of unconditional cash transfer (UCT) programs in Illinois, Massachusetts and Texas, to existing dividend-based unconditional cash transfers, to child allowance pilot programs throughout the U.S. Two of the largest and most data-rich programs the researchers studied were the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Payments, neither of which was intended to be an anti-poverty program but each of which have measurably reduced poverty among their constituents.

In 2021, in what amounted to the first and so far, only nationwide case study of the impact of cash transfers, the Biden administration temporarily expanded the federal child tax credit (CTC) through the American Rescue Plan Act. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the expansion lifted 2.1 million children out of poverty. For Black and Latino children, official poverty measures shrank more compared to the decline in rates for white children. The temporary cash infusion also had notable benefits on mental health, again with a greater difference observed with Black families. An additional $100 per child per month reduced depression symptoms in all low-income parents, with Black parents seeing nearly twice the reduction in depression and anxiety symptoms as other subgroups.

One study found that the monthly cash difference of $313 per month led to some changes in infant brain activity, with infants whose mothers received $333 monthly showing higher “fast-brain” activity compared to babies of mothers receiving $20 monthly. The brain’s mid- and high-frequency bands are associated with cognitive skills, which indicates that cash transfers may improve development of these skills, though more research is needed to draw a direct link.

According to an analysis at Washington University in St. Louis, child poverty in the U.S. costs up to $1.03 trillion a year in loss of economic productivity, increased health and crime costs, homelessness and maltreatment. Cash transfer policies seem like a bargain in comparison by helping mitigate social challenges and reduce government spending in health and human services.

You misunderstood or misinterpreted my point.

$100k today will not get you in the door of any house. You probably couldn't even buy a burnt down lot in California. But you could pay rent for a while. $100k might get you 5 to 10 years of rent money. You could buy a van and you could make that your home.

$100k is spitting on your face.

Oh, my bad.

56,800 population in 2020 according to Alexa, so $5,680,000,000?

I mean, with the tariff revenue, we could buy Greenland 34 times...

Y'know those maps that Republicans bring out to say "look the whole country voted R" failing to realise that land doesn't vote, well this is one of those times, but opposite. Paying the people doesn't mean you're buying the land. That'd be a separate deal and would cost a hell of a lot more than that if it were even for sale.

56,800 population in 2020 according to Alexa

Sorry, you lost me there

Couldn't be bothered to Google it so I asked Alexa. LOL.