One unexplored issue is a loophole that allows individuals to satisfy the work requirement if their household has at least $580 of monthly income—which includes gross gambling winnings (i.e., the profits from winning bets or gambling sessions) without netting out losses. In most states, individuals can maintain Medicaid coverage by showing $580 in gross gambling winnings once every six months.
Individuals averse to the risk of losing money may still be able to exploit the loophole, by taking positions on both sides of a single bet that guarantees both $580 in winnings and a somewhat larger loss, satisfying the work requirement without any financial risk apart from covering modest bookmaker fees.
The American economy is just AI data centers, gambling, and medical expenses.
(Not disagreeing with you, I just love an excuse to post this comic)
Don’t forget about exploitation of the imperial periphery.
Fraud
don’t forget fraud!
I really feel like this shit is the canary in the coal mine. The whole economy is just gambling now. There are no jobs.
It’s time to get the fuck out of North America. Sell your shit, take your savings, and get the fuck out.
Feels like we are just feeding canaries to the coal mine.
I told a miner this and his minor started crying
there’s nowhere in the west that isn’t prone to this. the best place to flee, in terms of potential for living in a just society, is going to be the global south
Does this ever work out in a non colonial way?
ask any refugee. i’d say china is the best equipped to soak the number of people fleeing but it’s never going to be ideal
Are there many refugees from the first world to the third world to ask? Usually they are expats or retirees which isn’t quite the same experience.
i’m not going to argue with that. it would be preferable in the interests of anti colonialism to seize assets over a certain amount to split asylum seekers from “expats”
i won’t deny the irony it’s the the portrayal of southern refugees by western fascists only back to front and credible
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A $58 loss every six months might still be significant for the poorest of the poor. Granted, still could be better than losing Medicaid for those with health issues.
That’s why you take both sides of the action. You’ll meet the requirement and only be out a few bucks.
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Shit, the gambling websites will even play along: “work requirement friendly bets - CLICK HERE!”
Am I seriously going to have to do this to keep my medicaid? Because no one is hiring and the last option is community service, which isn’t the end of the world, but I’d have to get a ride to and from.
It could be worse…
It’s so fucked up because my psych medicine keeps me stable and functioning. Like I know they don’t care, but large swaths of people are going to get violently ripped away from their medicine. A lot of these people will have crisis and get hurt. I know though I know this is all by design to cull the poor.
I wish you a lot of luck. I hate to say it but things will get uglier before they get better. Whatever the political landscape in DC in January, 2029 - there’s going to be a horrible push for bipartisan “belt tightening”. Of course they won’t tax corporations and they’ll need $$$$$ for the Cold War 2.0 they want to fight with China.
but I’d have to get a ride to and from.
There’s online ways to volunteer. Examples: https://www.idealist.org/en/volunteer?locationType=REMOTE
As long as it’s recognized by your state’s Medicaid agency, it counts
It might actually be cheaper to just pay the $58 booking fee then to pay for 80 hours worth of community service transportation, especially with gas going up. Absolutely jokerfying.
in communist China people pay money to keep up the pretends that they have a job.i thought maybe this was some kind of card counters carveout, the IRS has these when you do your taxes, but no it’s a no shit loophole.
Oh say, can you see
By the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hailed
At the twilight’s last gleaming?
53% of Americans in 2026 gamble huh?
Aww shit that includes gacha games, guess I’m part of that.
so increase revenue of gambling companies by providing service with state money, neat-o
This definitely won’t be used for blaming poor people for their misfortune.
