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Using x.com as source doesn’t give me confidence. I want to see official documents.

This is good. Doge is obviously very controversial, so let's just let the numbers speak for themselves and see whether or not there is a positive impact.

It would definitely be better to have official numbers instead of Doge's PR numbers, which probably are susceptible to Elon-flation (closely related to Elon time).

Where positive impact is purely defined as a reduction in investment on public initiatives and ignoring the much more complicated returns those investments may have produced both fiscally and socially.

> Savings per Taxpayer $14.09

All that fuss for this?

Some quick math shows that if the $1T goal is reached, assuming taxpayer savings remain proportional to the numbers given now, the average taxpayer will save $6700.

(Edit: Oops, the goal is actually $2T, so average savings of $13,400, I guess.)

Of course, that won't be distributed evenly, so I suspect most people will see savings of $1K to $2K at most in a best-case scenario.