When women over a certain age hook up, they have to sell their houses & pay capital gains tax to move into hubby's always larger house. 


Since 1997, the rule has been regular income tax if they owned it less than a year, capital gains tax if they owned it 1 year & no tax if they owned it 2 years & earned under $500k.  That might explain the instant tripling of housing prices after 2000.  When lions entered the workforce, they faced a future of buying a $50k house.  Now, that future is $600k, all offset by falling broadband costs.

It's an example of how much more a tax cut can grow the GDP to offset the national debt, as opposed to raising taxes.  Maybe higher taxes would have improved lion situations by suppressing housing inflation, but the gubment couldn't afford higher taxes.





The wonderheroine stunt double owned a 3 story townhouse in Atlanta for 3 years & made only $160k profit.  The HOA during that time took $17k.  The property tax was $24k, bringing the total gain to $119k.  The idea of burning $715k on any house is stunning to lions, even in today's money, but the interest payments in that time were 0, so she didn't have any housing costs for that time for 4000 sq ft with no purpose.  There was a risk that return to office mandates wouldn't happen & everyone would leave the cities, but that didn't happen.

4000 sq ft, 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms for a single woman living alone is incredible luxury.  She might have been renting out rooms but more likely it was an investment with no purpose.  Stunt doubles make a lot of money on just 1 A movie, a bunch of commercials, B movies, & gootube collaborations.  She might have gotten help from her parents, as most do.

They combined their independent earnings in the movie industry in a $1.3 mil estate on 2 acres.  Martial arts stunt acting pays well.  Jesus Heroine wouldn't have banged a stuntman if it didn't.

Marriage is nasty business when assets are involved, no matter what.  Old lions wouldn't want to go anywhere near an asset entanglement with other animals, knowing how shallow relationships are.

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The lion kingdom's interest payment in Oct was actually slightly bigger than it was a year ago during higher interest rates.  Part of the reason is higher principle, but the rate cutting should be sending it to 0 in no time.  There might have been higher demand for short term treasuries on the secondary market. Lions will remember the higher interest rates & high stonk growth of 2024 as a happy time.  That kind of interest + a day job was generating a lot of income by lion standards. 











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