• @the_q@lemm.ee
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    972 months ago

    Rich people amass so much money they lose the ability to recognize its value. It’s a hoarding condition plain and simple.

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    612 months ago

    How is this real? He can’t really think that’s a reasonable statement to make in reality, right? He has an inkling of how tone-deaf he is, right?!

  • @dangling_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    612 months ago

    Idea: Add 10 questions to the tax form that ask for the price of common household items/groceries. For each wrong answer, increase the tax by 10 percent. The question has to be answered by the individual and cannot be modified by accountants. Give it a fun name like “price is right tax” and snuggle it in the spending bill.

    • @ninja@lemmy.world
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      62 months ago

      I see milk thrown around as the common thing people are supposed to know about. I’m lactose intolerant and have no idea how much a gallon of milk costs. It’s unlikely you could find 10 things that everyone buys and has similar pricing across brands and variations.

      • @Szyler@lemmy.world
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        11 month ago

        Do a ski jump score, of dropping the highest and lowest score, so you can have two shitty answers, and only scored on your middle answers.

  • @conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    I like to remind the republicans I know that the people they vote for would shoot themselves rather than live like we do. For them, even a middle class lifestyle would seem like crippling, destitute poverty.

    E: tbf, it’s also true of many Democrats, but I can’t think of a single working class Republican legislator and cabinet member. I can think of at least a few working class democrats.

  • doug
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    442 months ago

    I wish I knew their Venmo handles so I could send requests for whatever they consider to be small chunks of change. I’m sure I wouldn’t get much, but as Michael Scott said, “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

    • @entwine413@lemm.ee
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      202 months ago

      I’ve done this with meds from my doctor. Like, 3 years ago I stopped taking muscle relaxers for migraine prevention, then I recently pulled my back. I didn’t want to pay a copay just to get more, so I did a refill request with my pharmacy.

      Sure enough, they rubber-stamped the request.

    • rigatti
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      132 months ago

      I doubt they even know what Venmo is. They don’t make decisions about or personally handle transactions with small amounts of money.

    • @curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      192 months ago

      During the hearing, Rep. Josh Harder (D-Cali.) claimed that the average American would have to pay over $286,000 out of pocket to receive the same addiction treatment that he had.

      That.

    • @n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca
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      92 months ago

      Exactly. I suspect he’s comparing that to a quarter-million dollar a month that governments spend on a patient, but archiving the social media post is as bad as a screen shot, so we’ll never know.

  • @1337@lemmy.world
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    62 months ago

    The US census bureau says the median income was $47960. (Doesn’t invalidate your point of course)

  • Ji Fu
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    52 months ago

    Let’s make sure we understand what he was comparing:

    “During the hearing, Rep. Josh Harder (D-Cali.) claimed that the average American would have to pay over $286,000 out of pocket to receive the same addiction treatment that he had.”

    https://archive.ph/NayZN

    • @ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
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      22 months ago

      So RFK Jr spent 10 times more on addiction treatment than needed? Is this some kind of humiliation kink I don’t understand?

      • Ji Fu
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        11 month ago

        @ryedaft 🤷there certainly are some people who are willing to pay more for a doctor they know/trust, and when you have Kennedy level money…