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Originally Posted by DVaut1
Just popping in to note that while I haven't the foggiest clue what the real scam/vice Kavanaugh has going on in his personal life, there ain't no ****ing way the dude racked up six figures of debt ****ing Nationals baseball tickets. He probably just likes to bet the ponies or has an expensive girlfriend or whatever mildly depraved thing pasty middle aged white guys blow their money on and then try to cover up when scrutinized, but we can't discount some massive financial chicanery wherein Kavanaugh is the personal beneficiary.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...ickets/565022/
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Kavanaugh reported similar figures—$60,000 to $200,000 in debt, on three credit cards and a loan—in 2006, then paid that down over the course of the next few years.
By next few years, they mean 11 years until 2017.
I haven't ready what his salary was during the time he worked in the Bush Whitehouse, but my guess is it was about $80-100k -- not exactly killing it for a couple with two kids (presumably) in private school in DC.
ETA: Kids are younger then I was thinking, so they didn't have both kids before he was made circuit court judge.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/The...es-E234426.htm
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By the time of his 2017 disclosure, the debts were gone, and Shah said that Kavanaugh’s only current debt is a home mortgage.
Even at $200k, paying that off at $18k/year doesn't seem to raise an eyebrow for a dual-income family where the principal wage earner earns $200-220k/year, if they are sufficiently motivated.
Its likely that he's refinanced his mortgage and rolled credit card debt into that loan.
Not sure I've seen any mention of his retirement funds, but given his government job, I doubt the Kavanaugh's are putting away 20% of their pre-tax salary into IRA savings.
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These numbers could put a dent in Kavanaugh’s salary. His disclosures show that if confirmed, he would have the smallest net worth of any justice. Getting the gig would probably inflate his assets. As a judge on the D.C. Circuit, he makes $220,600 a year, which would bump up to $255,300 on the Supreme Court. He might benefit in other ways, too: Justice Sonia Sotomayor scored a book advance of more than $1 million after joining the Court.
I would expect that his daughters' college funds are woefully underfunded at this point. Though, a nice book deal will probably fix that.
None of this seems suspicious.
Last edited by Lapidator; 07-12-2018 at 06:36 PM.