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You don’t say! A will? A legal instrument for transferring wealth from a corpse to people who didn’t earn it? I think you’re on to something!
Correct. Which is why you and underachievers everywhere just might stand a fighting chance.
So...I'M an underachiever?
Please do tell...what do you know about me and how you know this?
Just because you don't have anything to leave anyone doesn't mean that people who are successful and plan ahead shouldn't be able to provide for their families as they see fit!
I think there was a mirror facing you when you slung the underachiever mud!
It’s too easy to trigger establishment types by threatening to upend the establishment. Rest easy, bro, your kids will never have to lift a finger. They can be professional trust fund beneficiaries!
It’s too easy to trigger establishment types by threatening to upend the establishment. Rest easy, bro, your kids will never have to lift a finger. They can be professional trust fund beneficiaries!
LOL...you know nothing about me! ...Or what constitutes the establishment....You seem to lean socialistic/fascist.
LOL...you know nothing about me! ...Or what constitutes the establishment....You seem to lean socialistic/fascist.
Nah, you’re pretty easy to figure out.
Poor people are just lazy and jealous.
Liberals/leftists/Democrats/socialists want to reward laziness and make everyone poor.
Republicans want to make everyone wealthy, and if you’re struggling it’s because you’re not trying (unless you’re a poor white Trump supporter... in that case, the problem is blacks, Mexicans, and the Democrats who enable them).
Trump just wants to make America great again.
You do OK for yourself, but you started out as a normal, red-blooded, middle-class American. You increased your wealth with hard work. And now you just want to provide for your kids, so they don’t have to work as hard as you did. You’ll be damned if the government takes your kids’ money and gives it to some welfare queen with a Cadillac and an Obamaphone.
Liberals/leftists/Democrats/socialists want to reward laziness and make everyone poor.
Republicans want to make everyone wealthy, and if you’re struggling it’s because you’re not trying (unless you’re a poor white Trump supporter... in that case, the problem is blacks, Mexicans, and the Democrats who enable them).
Trump just wants to make America great again.
You do OK for yourself, but you started out as a normal, red-blooded, middle-class American. You increased your wealth with hard work. And now you just want to provide for your kids, so they don’t have to work as hard as you did. You’ll be damned if the government takes your kids’ money and gives it to some welfare queen with a Cadillac and an Obamaphone.
How did I do, marine?
Other than your incoherent rambling...very poorly....Marine is capitalized as it's a title.
Other than your incoherent rambling...very poorly....Marine is capitalized as it's a title.
You get the capital M when you start honoring the title. And everything I typed fits your worldview; you just don’t want to admit that you fit in an ideological box.
I didn’t suggest keeping it. Bury them with their wealth. Turn their properties into mausoleums. I’d settle for any disposition that doesn’t involve handing wealth to children who didn’t earn it.
How do you know they didn't earn it, and what exactly do you mean "turn their properties into mausoleums"?
A means to add people to the voter rolls. Again, there's no requirement for a state-issued photo ID to register to vote. How else do you think millions of out-of-state college students can register to vote in their college towns?
Says WHO?
I am sure there are options to register on-line, but that doesn't mean that you won't have to write in your drivers license number and then to actually present it in person, when you show up at the voting station for the first time.
Your government does not include Alaska and Hawaii in its data, because they are statistical outliers.
Ethical researchers and economists reporting financial or economic data for individuals or households do not include Alaska and Hawaii, because they are statistical outliers.
The woman who runs the web-site for you link engages in unethical behavior, because she deceitfully includes Alaska and Hawaii in order to artificially inflate the Cost-of-Living and skew the data to say what she thinks it should say.
That's what we're talking about.
If you don't understand the importance of ethical behavior in science or the social sciences, then contact your local university and ask a dean, or professor, associate professor, teaching assistant or research assistant to explain it to you.
Or you can read the link below at the government web-site:
There are several reasons why it is important to adhere to ethical norms in research. First, norms promote the aims of research, such as knowledge, truth, and avoidance of error. For example, prohibitions against fabricating, falsifying, or misrepresenting research data promote the truth and minimize error.
Healthcare spending per capita is not what people actually pay, rather it's what is spent.
The average amount spent per capita is $10,739, but $1.289 TRILLION was spent by Medicare and Medicaid, not individuals.
She unethically ignores that fact. Lest you forget:
For 2019 calendar-year plans using the federal poverty level (FPL) safe harbor to determine affordability, an employee's premium payment can't exceed $99.75 per month, up from $96.08 per month in 2018.
She unethically artificially inflates the costs by using $10,739 as the basis for her calculations.
Except that 2/3rds of families do not use childcare.
Again, she unethically artificially inflates her numbers by assuming 100% use childcare, when in fact they do not.
I could go on and on, but her web-site is nothing but propaganda.
That's getting tiring, so probably the last free math lesson:
As I said, you can see the data by county or state, feel free NOT to select Hawaii and Alaska.
Confused are you. Medicare is irrelevant, we are not talking about retired people. Medicaid is irrelevant, that's a public assistance. The whole point is to calculate a living wage, such that the person on it, would NOT require taxpayers assistance. Low wage jobs typically provide zero or minimal HC benefits. So the 2k per year is extremely low to cover everything, got it?
Yes, some families do not use childcare, but I didn't see any language about that. But that would explain the extremely low cost listed, however that does not help your point even a bit. BTW, do you want to include college expenses in the calculation?
Says WHO?
I am sure there are options to register on-line, but that doesn't mean that you won't have to write in your drivers license number and then to actually present it in person, when you show up at the voting station for the first time.
Says WHO?
Just one example of what I'm talking about... College students from out of state register to vote while away at school. Their state-issued ID is from another state but they're allowed to vote on/near campus out of state, anyway. Happens all the time. All they have to do is register to vote and claim to be a US citizen. No state-issued photo ID required. Hell, they let them register and then vote the same day.
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