Thread to talk about relatives gaming the system

[twig93]

@JFG

I never said they did anything bad

You didn’t, but others did.

@YankeeTripper

So you’re cheap ass welfare queen relatives are the reason we can’t have nice things?

@Whiskey

@twig93

Don’t hate the player, hate the game

No, you can easily hate the player.

@YankeeTripper

Twig’s family welfare abuse

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@JFG

but it’s hard to feel bad for some extra expense for people wealthy enough to retire in their early 40s

My point was really just to illustrate the futility of attempting to means test by looking at something as blunt as AGI.

For something like EV subsidies for not-rich people, don’t means test at all. Just make them only for cheap cars that most rich people don’t want.

Indy said something about how pre-Medicare retirees were able to get free Obamacare plans by keeping their income low even though they were loaded and I mentioned that I had relatives who did this too and we started down the rabbit hole. Just examples of failed means testing.