• Verdant Banana@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Financial disclosures show Tim Walz barely has any assets to his name. No stocks, bonds, or even property to call his own. Together with his wife, Gwen, his net worth is $330,000, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal citing financial disclosures from 2019, the year after he became Minnesota governor.

    With that kind of meager nest egg, he would be more or less in line with the median figure for Americans his age (he’s 60), and even poorer than the average. One in 15 Americans is a millionaire, a recent UBS wealth report discovered.

    Read more: Tim Walz’s leadership resonates with my country’s Viking Code. Here’s why that matters

    Meanwhile, the gross annual income of Walz and his wife, Gwen, amounted to $166,719 before tax in 2022, according to their joint return filed that same year. Walz is even entitled to earn more than the $127,629 salary he receives as state governor, but he has elected not to receive the roughly $22,000 difference.

    “Walz represents the stable middle class,” tax lawyer Megan Gorman, who authored a book on the personal finances of U.S. presidents, told the paper.

    he is worth $330,000 and he makes combined with his wife $166,719

    that is way more than most people know such as the skilled plumbers know who make $13 an hour for a skilled trades job

    Walz USED to be the average middle class US citizen but sadly the US has either poor or rich with the middle class gutted to almost extinction

    teachers are not even making a third of Walz’s worth in this country

    fuck Walz, fuck Harris, and fuck Trump and fuck their donors for taking over our country

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      20 hours ago

      Having a net worth of $330K only means you’re an older person who owns a house and has paid at least most of it off. Also there isn’t a single plumber who’s worth their salt who’s making $13/hr, my man. Either your friends are awful at their work or you’re lying

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        in the South that is still a high paying job at $13 an hour

        why don’t you ring some digits and find out

        some places down here do pay more of course such as a Wal-mart stocker at about $17 but the daytime employees there still make less than that and some plumbing companies do pay more here around some close to Wal-mart pay but you have to drive farther out to find those which eats into maintenance/gas

        sources: patrons that are in front of my counter at work a lot more are open to talk about how much they make than you would imagine maybe it is just because of my job

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          19 hours ago

          I want the US government to have your friends’ backs when they want to unionize and bargain for higher wages and a pension, which is why I’m voting Harris/Walz

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              14 hours ago

              Those rail workers who got the sick leave they wanted after the Biden Admin continued to fight for them?

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      21 hours ago

      Oh yeah, Trump and Walz are interchangeable. Totally the same guy with the same morals.

      Ass.

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        damn right they are just like when they teamed up to stop the protesters of the line 3 pipeline

        Walz used the funds Trump provided through some federal program he did and together they upped the police budget to manhandle those protesters

        Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has not taken a firm stance on the pipeline expansion, which received federal approval under the Trump administration.[18][23]

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Line_3_protests