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I get it. Just seems warped.

I know an ER doc in a medium-sized American city making $700K a year. He's good at what he does, and he saves lives. But should he be earning three times more than a Supreme Court justice? Seems out of whack.

I understand there are lots of examples of this.

 

I know a couple who have an interest-only mortgage. I think it's stupid as hell, but they fill a niche for some people.

 

The only party that values life strikes again.
Disgusting but predictable.
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He's refinanced the house twice, and has $200000 in credit card debt?

C'mon.

 

No. Try reading more closely.

C'mon.

 

By all means, let's amend that.

He refinanced the house twice, and had $200000 in credit card debt?

C'mon.



His public filing does not include his home, which he purchased with his wife, Ashley, in 2006 for $1.2 million. Public real estate filings indicate that the couple has refinanced their mortgage twice, most recently in 2015. Their current mortgage is $865,000.
His past financial disclosure forms reveal that Kavanaugh has carried significant credit card debt — on and off — for more than a decade. He previously reported between $60,000 to $200,000 in debt among three credit cards and a loan in 2006, the same year he was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

 

Nope. Still wrong. Try reading again.

C'mon.

 

Financial disclosure forms intentionally leave these wide vague spreads because the legislators who voted for them under extreme political duress wanted them to be as vague as possible. Would've been easy to write a law with itemization if it wouldn't have sent so many of the authors to jail.

 

Seriously.

"between"

Does anyone honestly think you'd report the higher figure, if the lower were true?

I have $45000 in personal debt, but for the purposes of this Supreme Court Financial Disclosure form let me estimate it at $200000.

Honey, how many times did we refinance the house?

 

Jamelle Bouie:

The president flaunts his authority as a white male who can act with impunity against women, nonwhites, and other vulnerable groups. He has conformed his government, and key institutions like the Supreme Court, to the image of that authority, giving its keepers an opportunity to reshape the country along those lines.

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No, no, no, no, no. The reason the say "between" is because the forms simply do not provide exact numbers. They only call for ranges. You could not report on the form the lower number, even if you wanted to.

You're wrong. Just admit it.

 

OK. I'm wrong.

So go with the lowest figure in each case.

$45000 in credit card debt.

And he refinanced his house twice.