Sorry morons, I anticipated all kinds of net worth related taxes and benefits tests decades ago. I have 6 months living expenses in my high yield checking and a tiny IRA and 401k from when I actually believed this Country had a future.
The rest? It's gone. I mean, unless the IRS wants to come play LEGOS with me and watch a movie in my home theater, or go shooting or something. I've converted nearly all of it to hard goods. Tools, food, bullets, reloading components. A tractor, off road toys, and more.
You see, they can't get blood from a turnip and the Government seems to give free crap to people who spent all their money and take it from those who saved, so fuck them, I'm spending it and I'll happily bleed the welfare state for every cent they'll give me.
Sorry morons, I anticipated all kinds of net worth related taxes and benefits tests decades ago. I have 6 months living expenses in my high yield checking and a tiny IRA and 401k from when I actually believed this Country had a future.
The rest? It's gone. I mean, unless the IRS wants to come play LEGOS with me and watch a movie in my home theater, or go shooting or something. You can't get blood from a turnip and the Government seems to give free crap to people who spent all their money and take it from those who saved, so fuck them, I'm spending it and I'll happily bleed the welfare state for every cent they'll give me.
Sorry morons, I anticipated all kinds of net worth related taxes and benefits tests decades ago. I have 6 months living expenses in my high yield checking and a tiny IRA and 401k from when I actually believed this Country had a future.
The rest? It's gone. I mean, unless the IRS wants to come play LEGOS with me and watch a movie in my home theater, or go shooting or something.
Sorry morons, I anticipated all kinds of net worth related taxes and benefits tests decades ago. I have 6 months living expenses in my high yield checking and a tiny IRA and 401k from when I actually believed this Country had a future.
The rest? It's gone. I mean, unless the IRS wants to come play LEGOS with me and watch a movie in my home theater, or go shooting or something.
You see when I realized what was happening I developed a terrible drinking and gambling addiction and once or twice a month I'll go on a bender and max my ATM withdrawal limits on four different bank debit cards at the local Indian casino. For some odd reason that urge always hits me on the night the buffet has prime rib. I wake up the next morning and I have some small amount of cash leftover from taxi fare since I'm a law abiding citizen and even though I'd likely never run into the Sheriff I'd never ruin my life or someone elses by driving with a BAC more than 0, let alone north of 0.25.
I do have fragments of a recurring dream where I was buying gold and silver from a Leprechaun. After reading this it occurred to me if I actually did own any $50 Gold Eagles they'd count $50 towards my wealth, even though the gold in them is worth more like $2400, which would mean I have 48 times more wealth than they can actually count against me. You see currency is valued based on the value printed on it, not the value of the underlying material it is made of (because if it was valued that way your $100 bill is basically worthless because there is about a gram worth of linen and cotton in it).
So, the moral of the story is if your wealth exists in bank and brokerage databases it's easy for them to count and easy for them to take. If they have to walk 3 miles down a logging road past wolf dens to dig up your property to find anything valuable you buried and go on Ebay to figure out how much used LEGO sets are worth, well that's going to be a lot harder and require a search warrant.
Sorry morons, I anticipated all kinds of net worth related taxes and benefits tests decades ago. I have 6 months living expenses in my high yield checking and a tiny IRA and 401k from when I actually believed this Country had a future.
The rest? It's gone. You see when I realized what was happening I developed a terrible drinking and gambling addiction and once or twice a month I'll go on a bender and max my ATM withdrawal limits on four different credit cards at the local Indian casino. For some odd reason that urge always hits me on the night the buffet has prime rib. I wake up the next morning and I have some small amount of cash leftover from taxi fare since I'm a law abiding citizen and even though I'd likely never run into the Sheriff I'd never ruin my life or someone elses by driving with a BAC more than 0, let alone north of 0.25.
I do have fragments of a recurring dream where I was buying gold and silver from a Leprechaun. After reading this it occurred to me if I actually did own any $50 Gold Eagles they'd count $50 towards my wealth, even though the gold in them is worth more like $2400, which would mean I have 48 times more wealth than they can actually count against me. You see currency is valued based on the value printed on it, not the value of the underlying material it is made of (because if it was valued that way your $100 bill is basically worthless because there is about a gram worth of linen and cotton in it).