Government gives $100 loan. Student borrower gives $100 at a later date to repay the loan. At no point did the borrower give the government anything in excess of zero dollars. ($100 loan - $100 payback = zero net dollars). There is nothing to 'refund'. The student never had $100 of their own money to give the government, it was the government's $100 all along.

Yes. Correct. I'm going to let you mull over your very own statement to see if you can figure out how you just sabotaged your own argument.

I'll give you a hint: The French company ain't having to declare their refund as income...

Did you... just quote and reply to yourself... while pretending you were talking to someone else? Are you OK? Or did you get your multiple accounts mixed up while replying?

You clearly don't understand the difference between a refund and a loan...

What's really crazy, is that isn't even the cost to START the war. It's the cost to CONTINUE a war that he claims we already won. Jeez, how much would it cost if we were LOSING this war???

Well, we WERE paying them to generate electricity for us. But thanks to the stable genius that is Trump, we will now pay them to NOT generate electricity for us. Man, I sure am tired of all this winning!

Good thing DOGE saved us 2 trillion so we just have billions of dollars lying around to pay people to NOT generate electricity for us!

Funny, their computers can TAKE the money at lightning fast speed. Yet to, I dunno, just print out those same records of who paid what and send the money back... well, our computers just aren't up to the task. Who is still listening to Trump's BS at this point?

I think we all knew that the anti-drug thing was BS, because five minutes after he arrested Maduro (for 'drugs'), all he could talk about was oil, oil, oil...

Uh, if my math is correct, that is nearly 44 TRILLION a year. The estimated GDP of the WORLD is $100 trillion. I'm going to go ahead and not believe their completely made up number...

I've heard this passed around as fact for decades, but I've never been able to find any evidence that this actually happened.

Except I'm not really 'charging' my home. I charge my car in one direction, and I power my home in the other. It's still not a good description of what it's actually doing.

There is zero chance that an EV will be powered by lead-acid batteries. They are far too heavy (5x), the energy density is too low, they don't last very long, they take a long time to charge, and they hate being run down to near zero.

I've heard the man speak/tweet for over a decade now. He is neither of those things. The man bankrupted A CASINO! If ever there was a sure-fire money-printing system, that was it. And he still failed spectacularly.

Didn't you hear? The day after he moved into the White House, he suddenly realized that bring prices down is hard. Who knew?

Remind me to never use the dishes at your house when you invite me over.