The full title of this post is “Alimony: The Gold Digger Tax and why I refuse to call it spousal maintenance” but I thought that was too long for a blog post title. Hell it’s almost too long to Tweet!
Washington state calls alimony “spousal maintenance” – I can only imagine this is because alimony has a negative connotation and this state is so god damned bleeding heart liberal and so politically correct that we can not possibly call something what it is… we must call it something less offensive so the that lazy gold digging sack of fat that receives the alimony feels better about extorting money from an ex spouse for doing abso-fucking-lutely nothing.
With child support and alimony combined I pay my soon-to-be-ex (STBX) $34000 per year. That means that for doing nothing she earns more than 37.71% of the US households! On top of that there is no tax on $16000 of that (the child support portion) so really <insert some math stuff here> she makes more than like 40% of US households. She does not work. She watches a LOT of FoodTv and eats a lot of bon-bons I guess.
So then STBX puts ME on the spot when my son wants to do things like computer programming camp this summer and tells him “if Dad can’t pay for it then you can’t go.” Unfair! I pay his mother $16,000 per year for child support (well a bit less than half of that is for his little sister but you get my point!). Son, if your lazy-assed Mom would get a JOB then she could use the money I pay her every month for things like computer programming camp!
Did I mention that this lazy, unemployed Gold Digger has an iPhone? Yep she and my son (he bought his with his own money, sure, but she pays the monthly bill!) BOTH have new iPhones. WOW.