If we can’t even figure out a way to get them to pay their taxes, how are we gonna get them to show up for their Hunger Games?
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y’all lack imagination. Have the top 5 or 10 self-report their net worth and evaluate the other candidates. If any of them are caught hiding assets or cheating they get treble the amount they were hiding added to their balance.
If any of them are caught cheating their accountants and lawyers have their assets liquidated and added to the billionaires balance.
The end result is we’re killing someone, the rules are already nasty.
Doesn’t seem nasty at all. Sometime you gotta cauterize to stop the rot.
That’s why you have to make the rules for cheating pretty severe. Make it worse than being the 2nd or 3rd richest person on the world…
I like it, but maybe replace the vat of hungry rats with mark-to-market taxation of their capital assets and drop the lottery element so it applies universally.
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My MiL lives with us, Colombian national, green card status. She’s got no wealth and no income, spanish only. Lives off of our generosity exclusively.
She’s got diabetes and ancillary complications from that. I’m a SWer by trade so I’ve been angling for getting her care at a cost that’s affordable, but she’s got specialty doctors for eye stuff due to the diabetes and the costs aren’t small.
She’s now having surgery to correct the ongoing battle against increasing eye pressure and it’s gonna cost like $13k. My efforts to get her covered by medicare and medicaid have been fruitless; never paid into medicare, and “household income” prevents the latter.
We don’t claim her as a dependent on our taxes, so I’m wondering if “household income” is something we could zero out. I guess I’m less sure about how “household” is defined here. If literal then she’s not eligible.
Anyone with knowledge? I’m gonna talk with a lawyer, but if we could find a way to get her on medicaid that would obviously be huge. Live in Virginia fwiw, she’s been with us for about 8 years. Morally I don’t want to just skip out on the bill for her, but I also don’t love the idea of escalating health costs that would be a huge drain financially.
IANAL but I’ve got to imagine theres a way she can be considered her own household, especially if you’re not claiming her as a dependent. Maybe rent her her room for $1/month and then consider that room her very own tiny household. Hope a lawyer can give you some useful guidance.
Renting her room is clever. My healthcare lawyer said he wasn’t able to advise but if not him I’m not sure who would be a better specialty lawyer to contact lol
Also not a lawyer, but I don’t know why you’d consider her to be part of your household for Medicaid purposes.
I can’t find a link that literally says, “If your Colombian national MiL with green card status lives with you but is not claimed as a dependent on your or your spouse’s tax return, you are not included in her household”. That said, all signs point to that being the answer. Here are 2 examples:
From Who’s included in your household
It seems the most important criteria for Virginia is 5 years of residency:
Green Card holders (lawful permanent residents) with five years or more of residency in the United States may now be eligible for free or low-cost health coverage from Virginia Medicaid. The five years starts from the date you became a permanent resident, as shown on your immigration documentation.
If it were me (again, not a lawyer!), I’d just have her apply for Medicaid with household income that excludes you and your wife. What do you mean when you say your efforts to do so have been fruitless?
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Watermelon mystery solved: neighbor ordered it, got delivered to wrong door. I feel like Columbo.
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Just… one more thing.
If the delivery company put this at the wrong door… then where the hell are my peaches?
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I’m glad you aren’t sleeping with the radishes…
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Like they ordered just a watermelon? That’s a weird order.
ETA: is your neighbor a weird single dude?
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The heart wants what the heart wants…
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That’s all their was. Neighbor is a woman. I’m just glad it wasn’t some kind of message melon. Only reason it occurred to me to ask around was it seemed like a fancy watermelon labeled seedless organic, so not out of somebody’s garden.
Mostly that I got held up on the household income bit, but your image makes that more clear. I also called DSS today and they told me not to include wife and I either, but was still nervous given it was verbal and not documented officially somehow. But think the verbal feedback plus this doc you shared has eased my mind. Open enrollment is tomorrow so I’ll be applying, but unfortunately it will be for 2025 and we’re SIL when it comes to this massive bill. But it’s still a huge win to have her covered in years to come.
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I think the message melons get thrown through people’s windows.
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God I suspect I’m about to get halloween ranched. 80 degree day in NY, gonna be > 200 for sure. Buckle up.
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