Last updated Nov 29, 2025
Prediction
Chamath
economypolitics
If DOGE is used to dramatically simplify the U.S. tax code (potentially including adoption of a flat tax) by cutting it down and only reenacting necessary provisions, U.S. real GDP growth will increase by approximately 1–2 percentage points (100–200 basis points) relative to the current trend, producing a sustained economic expansion.
could you imagine if these guys basically used Doge as a mechanism to shrink the tax code, create a flat tax, potentially... the idea of just cutting this all the way down, and then finding through that process what you actually need, I think, can find America 100 to 200 basis points of GDP growth. It could be an economic renaissance.View on YouTube
Explanation

The prediction is a conditional causal claim: if DOGE were used to radically simplify the U.S. tax code (e.g., implement a flat tax and drastically shrink the code), then U.S. real GDP growth would rise by about 1–2 percentage points and create a sustained expansion.

As of 30 November 2025:

  • The U.S. federal tax code has not been overhauled using DOGE (Dogecoin) as any central mechanism, nor has Congress adopted a DOGE-based reform or flat tax tied to DOGE.
  • The IRS and U.S. Treasury do not use DOGE as an official tax payment mechanism or as a structural tool for rewriting/simplifying the tax code; crypto usage for taxes remains limited to certain states/municipalities for payment, and is not structurally DOGE-centric or code-shrinking in the manner described.
  • There has been no major legislative tax reform in 2024–2025 that meets the described condition of “using DOGE to shrink the tax code and create a flat tax.”

Because the triggering condition of the prediction has not occurred, we have no empirical basis to evaluate whether such a DOGE-driven tax-code simplification would in fact add 100–200 basis points to U.S. real GDP growth. It’s a counterfactual policy claim that remains untested, not a time-bound forecast whose outcome we can observe.

Therefore the correct classification is "ambiguous": the claim cannot be determined true or false given current reality, not because it’s too early, but because the scenario it depends on never happened.