Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 21:27:39 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: The Gentrification Two-Step References: <1232661064.736518595.509089.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <396962196.736562742.794179.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <-uGcnd3QPstZQKr7nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <79pf3j1quoc76an1r7vsp0l5p4scn9o9fi@4ax.com> <1491316379.736632923.638911.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Sun, 05 May 2024 14:36:30 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 34 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-EMJ3Tzob1gxoDDt2SGK8LGKl+6MIMawRTbbk6gzVyzViTwH4zCV0NMdKIizHf2NVm2LVaLrqIoFMfs3!Cb0/px4DdAjKGwH9UcXL2BTILXrR7e/eAvC4MzGuGYgHb/CYCsCkz/wJFOgBwHNM+bVFOvcME4zW!ds4= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2811 In article <1491316379.736632923.638911.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com>, anim8rfsk wrote: > The Horny Goat wrote: > > On Sun, 05 May 2024 19:28:04 +0000, BTR1701 wrote: > > > >>> That's interesting. I wonder if "how much money you have" is a protected > >>> class? > >> > >> It's not. There's a huge push now in California for the government to > >> base everything from your electric bill to your car registration fee > >> to traffic fines on how much money you make. It won't be long before > >> you're going to have to submit your IRS returns to the court just to > >> find out how much that parking ticket is going to be. > >> > > So were I in California I'd be in a pretty good place since retirement > > since my overall income is quite low though I have a moderate paid for > > home and a reasonable but not exorbitant what you folks would call an > > IRA which is in investments that won't mature for 3 more years (which > > is Canada would be the age that you must by law start drawing down an > > income from your fund). > > > > In other words pretty much the textbook example of "asset rich, income > > poor" > > Ditto They'll just get around both you worthless privileged slackers by basing it on net worth rather than yearly income. Don't you know that the government needs your money more than you do? They have to pay some idiot college kid's student loans so he'll vote for them. How dare you keep it from them?