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[–] [email protected] 196 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

“$800 million worth”?
“Nobody wants”?

Sounds like creative accounting…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Yup. Their boss controls the IRS. They'll write them off, get a bailout check, and sale the remaining trucks to the US military. Triple dip the American tax payer.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I have $800M worth of lint in my belly button, apparently

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

Except these actually have value as scrap especially in the batteries.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

They tried that in Canada and got caught. They'll get a free handy for doing it in the US under Tump though.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

That’s what Trump’s big legal battle with New York was about - lying about the value of a penthouse or something.

So much of these “rich” fuckers wealth is just bullshit on paper.