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Page 781 of the bill provides $25 million to the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives to cover "salary and expenses."
This is called a payoff. Pure and simple.
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Step one:
Page 781 of the bill provides $25 million to the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives to cover "salary and expenses."
This is called a payoff. Pure and simple.
It all depends on where you live. How do people not understand this? $100k in parts of Texas is really good money...upper middle class. $100k in British Colombia (Canada) or San Francisco and you are sharing a studio apartment with 2 other people and going hungry a couple days a week. Without context, saying $100k means you are wealthy is just as stupid as saying $100k means you are poor. The same job can pay VERY differently depending on the cost-of-living of your city/state. I've met taxi drivers in New York who make $200k a year and are still "poor" because of the fees they have to pay for their licenses and union checks and rent on their tiny house an hour away that they've been saving up for for 15 years. Just suggesting that a certain dollar amount means anything (without context) is a sign if total ignorance around the subject.
The person who blows through 200k and the person who blows through 50k end up with the same amount of wealth. Took me a while to figure that out, too, but if you're going to blow it all may as well do it in your 20s when it's fun.