Author Topic: Harvesting the EITC, CTC, SNAP and Medicaid  (Read 7829 times)

Dicey

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Re: Harvesting the EITC, CTC, SNAP and Medicaid
« Reply #100 on: January 02, 2021, 03:32:20 AM »
Moral and legal issues aside, why would any able-bodied person want to live on so little voluntarily? Be sure to educate your children well, so they can become like Tara Westover and write a best-selling memoir about how messed up their upbringing was.

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« Reply #101 on: January 02, 2021, 06:15:52 AM »
Oh man, that was a good book. Ya allright, Dicey. You’re top shelf.

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Re: Harvesting the EITC, CTC, SNAP and Medicaid
« Reply #102 on: January 02, 2021, 07:31:36 AM »
Thanks for sharing

I plan to do something similar when I have kids

I am glad to see I am not the only one who would rather retire early to raise my kids than sit in a cube all day while they are molested in daycare or by their teachers in school

Nice straw man, @happychineseboy

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Re: Harvesting the EITC, CTC, SNAP and Medicaid
« Reply #103 on: January 02, 2021, 08:08:13 AM »
Is the party over? I'm not done with my popcorn!

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Re: Harvesting the EITC, CTC, SNAP and Medicaid
« Reply #104 on: January 02, 2021, 09:49:19 AM »
Moral and legal issues aside, why would any able-bodied person want to live on so little voluntarily? Be sure to educate your children well, so they can become like Tara Westover and write a best-selling memoir about how messed up their upbringing was.

Thanks for the book recommendation - I just took it out.

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Re: Harvesting the EITC, CTC, SNAP and Medicaid
« Reply #105 on: January 02, 2021, 09:52:18 AM »
Moral and legal issues aside, why would any able-bodied person want to live on so little voluntarily? Be sure to educate your children well, so they can become like Tara Westover and write a best-selling memoir about how messed up their upbringing was.

Thanks for the book recommendation - I just took it out.

Same.  I just put the audiobook on hold at my library - always looking for a good memoir to listen to.

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Re: Harvesting the EITC, CTC, SNAP and Medicaid
« Reply #106 on: January 02, 2021, 09:57:05 AM »
Moral and legal issues aside, why would any able-bodied person want to live on so little voluntarily? Be sure to educate your children well, so they can become like Tara Westover and write a best-selling memoir about how messed up their upbringing was.

Thanks for the book recommendation - I just took it out.

Same.  I just put the audiobook on hold at my library - always looking for a good memoir to listen to.

Funny, @Dicey 's recommedation piqued my interest too. I was lucky enough to be able to borrow it immediately from an online library. It's absorbing reading, but I had to put it down about 40% of the way in. The descriptions of abuse were too much.

I may return to the book eventually, but in small doses.

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« Reply #107 on: January 02, 2021, 11:38:08 AM »
Is the party over? I'm not done with my popcorn!

Yeah, it does appear to be over. With no comment on the actual number of existing kids, which was my particular point of doubt. Ah well, more popcorn for the next ridiculous thread!

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Re: Harvesting the EITC, CTC, SNAP and Medicaid
« Reply #108 on: January 02, 2021, 11:49:03 AM »
Moral and legal issues aside, why would any able-bodied person want to live on so little voluntarily? Be sure to educate your children well, so they can become like Tara Westover and write a best-selling memoir about how messed up their upbringing was.

$14,200 is a HUGE amount of money. I live in a beautiful 3 bed 2 bath home with a yard twice the size of all my neighbors for my kids to play in. We can walk within 2 minutes to parks, the library, groceries, banks.

With SNAP at $600 per month we have a hard time even spending all the money. I think SNAP is too generous. We eat steak and bacon everyday, even throw in the occasional lobster.

If you don't think that $14,200 is a lot of money, then you are an anti-mustachian SCHMUCK. My strategy covers all of my bills while my portfolio grows. I will be a multi multi millionaire by the time I'm as old as you.

Also, I'm not going to be told by a childless, cat lady, boomer how to educate my children.
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Re: Harvesting the EITC, CTC, SNAP and Medicaid
« Reply #109 on: January 02, 2021, 11:59:49 AM »
Oh man, $14k is just about what I pay in taxes. You’re welcome!

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Re: Harvesting the EITC, CTC, SNAP and Medicaid
« Reply #110 on: January 02, 2021, 12:02:43 PM »
Oh man, $14k is just about what I pay in taxes. You’re welcome!

Thank you @Sailor Sam. I really appreciate it.

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Re: Harvesting the EITC, CTC, SNAP and Medicaid
« Reply #111 on: January 02, 2021, 12:27:40 PM »
Holy smokes, what a thread.

OP really needs to be more subtle if s/he wants to last as a troll anywhere.

Banned. Locking thread.

Thirding the recommendation for Educated. Very disturbing, Adventine, but worth it. Also I just friend requested you on GoodReads! :D

What was I doing? Oh yeah, ban hammer.

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