Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: The Gentrification Two-Step Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 09:45:52 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 51 Message-ID: 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> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 06 May 2024 15:45:52 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="dbd0962a50abc205c8eba3e15884ece4"; logging-data="2733554"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18e6yc76hWsRVSh7fvRV51c" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:N4shcqGsYTEmzMjWV4JSnkYgwfI= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3648 On 5/5/24 5:36 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > 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? Now do the PPP loans. But you never will, will you? Then you can move on to all the big banks that got taxpayer money for free. They're worth billions, but i don't see you ragging on them.' Why is that? Isn't that the bigger outrage? -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0