My question is 'over spent' on what? Even with all the furniture he bought over FIVE YEARS ago, it was retail, prefab stuff not high end, future antique quality pieces that cost a bunch of money ( risking power lvl due to a friend who crafts handmade dinning room sets that cost more than D$P makes in a year). All the furniture and wall hangings he purchased should have been paid for already even at minimum payments. How can he still be carrying debt over these purchases? He wasn't ( according to him ) making LESS than he brings in now and seeing as he wasn't knee deep in tips and cheers back in 2015 when the Ad-apocalypse saw him losing his previously lucrative Machinima contract how can he be in even worse financial straits now?...aside from rolling debt onto even more zero% promo credit cards until it has reached an unfixable lvl with new cards/no longer qualifies for new ones.
Here is the problem with your logic. Your assumptions are based on what you deem to be a normal person and, from what I am assuming, yourself. Look at the personal crisis in America. Most people are shit with money and Phil is worse than them. Lets do some guess work math. Lets assume Phil makes $10k a month. Let us also assume that his effective federal tax rate (after deductions) is around 20%. That leaves him with $8k.
3 years ago he let slip that his mortgage on his CT condo was around $1100 and that his WA condo was about the same. Now, many things would cause that to increase such as late payments or increases in insurance that's lumped into your monthly payment. Those rates have gone up but lets be generous and say his monthly mortgage for both properties combined is $2500. That is really generous. That leaves him with $5500 a month. Still a lot of money.
Water and electric on standby for his CT residence breaks down to around $100 a month if memory serves. He is probably paying roughly $300 for his WA condo which leaves him with $5100. Then he has two internet connections in his home, one of which is a business internet connection. He is probably paying $60ish for the personal but the business one is the kicker. He has said multiple times that he has the fastest that Comcast has to offer. The fastest they have listed is the Gigabit down service which is $500/month (
https://www.business.org/services/internet/comcast-business-internet-review/). If this is the case, he has $4540 left. Still a lot yes?
Then there is the car payment. Yes he downgraded cars but Phil is a dumb shit and probably got the service plan on it. That will jack up his monthly payment. Lets ballpark that at $350 which leaves him with $4190. So we got our month to month bills covered which leaves food. Lets say that between Kat and Phil, they eat on $40 a day. That is not a large number and he does go out to eat a fair amount. Phil also doesn't eat cheap usually. That alone would be $1200 in a 30 day month which would bring him down to $2990. Lets say that he buy 5 AAA releases in a month at $60 a pop. Without considering sales tax, that would bring his total down to $2690.
I know this is a lengthy explanation but do you see where I am going with this? On a six figure a year income, we have Phil down to $2690 a month and believe me that is me being generous. We still have not touched credit card debt and the supposed business loans. Fun fact, the amount of time to repay an unsecured loan scales with the amount of money borrowed. If he got a loan for $10k, a 60 month payment plan is not out of the question for most banks and is pretty common. You are being charged interest the entire time and Phil is notorious for making minimum payments, if not missing payments. A lot of bank loans heap on extra interest if you miss payments. Another fun fact is that Phil could pay down that bank loan, borrow more, and extend the loan if the bank was stupid enough to loan him money. Believe me when I say the bank would if they had reasonable belief they could get it back with shit tons of interest. Phil is a prime target for that.
It is reasonable to say that he pays between $1500 to $2k in credit card payments and bank loans. Again, he mentions how he shuffles debt around and, while he thinks he is getting around the system, he is not. He is getting fucked with interest. Guess what. Still haven't even mentioned state taxes. Still haven't mentioned any emergencies that come up that cost him. Still haven't mentioned health insurance. Still haven't mentioned Kat's debt. There are probably bills I forgot. Even if I went over with a bill here or there, like with the internet, he is still in a hole month to month. Imagine that. Imagine making $120k a year and still fucking up so badly you are in a financial hole.
I hope you have enjoyed reading my paper as much as I had writing it. Thank you teacher and thank you to the class.
Nigel Farage
Homeroom - Mr. Chiszle
1/11/19