Excellent strawman. Let me address it.

What happens when whomever is the non-borrowing resident (I’d imagine a grandparent or aged parent) dies? Suddenly, several thousand a month in income could vanish.

I really only ever bring up actual numbers if I’m prompted. I’m very conscious about the fact that, together, my wife and I make probably 3 to 4 times more than 90% of my friends (of all my friends we still probably make at least twice as much as the next closest). So, I don’t ever want to come off as rubbing it in…

Probably wise to not become a lawyer post-2011. It took me graduating Magna from JD, #1 from LLM, published in a national tax journal, and 2 years of federal court clerking to land a decent (at the time) job at a mid-sized firm.

Wow, most times, as a tax lawyer, I get derision, or at best, a look of abject boredom.

I’m open if asked directly, but sometimes it’s really awkward. For example, my wife is a resident physician and makes, as all residents do, around $50,000 per year. She works horrific schedules and has more responsibilities than any one person should have. To anyone who knows a resident, they know the residents are…

*Real lawyer. Thank you.

Did you ever stop to think you’re now being trolled? Or, is that to meta for you, Jared?

Well, I see you haven’t stated you weren’t a pedophile. Interesting.

Nope, go fuck yourself.

All you’ve done is make baseless assertions. Your point?

Really? So, if I called you a pedophile, you’d what... just accept it?

Actually, the person that criticized me was quite sexist. As are you for assuming that I’m a male. See, we can all play the victim game.

Oh, I totally agree about being desperate. If you don’t have leverage, then negotiations aren’t going to go that well. In my firm, an associate’s girlfriend got a job at a big law firm in town. It was her first job post-graduation, she was searching for 6+ months, they offered her a nice salary, and she took it. That…

Really? So, it’s some how benefitted her that she’s never negotiated her salary, her cable bill, her literally anything?

I’ve been trying to explain this mentality to my mother, a baby boomer, who always just took what she was offered. I did just what was explained with my cable bill, I negotiated my mortgage, my insurance, basically anything I can.

I actually think that might be better than laws specifically making it illegal with punishments up to and including chemical castration and death.

Here’s an overview.

Yeah, but the OP to my comment stated $20 in taxes per year. Sure, that’d be true if your property was worth $1,000.

That’s a ridiculous deal, but probably one most people aren’t willing to make. I’d imagine, in order to pay only $51/month in taxes you have to a) live in a shoebox; b) live in a fly over state; c) be lucky to live in a state with no property tax; or d) some combination of the above.