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Was it even a vacation home? Maybe I don't remember right, but I thought it was just his house in Vermont or whatever. He only has two homes: one in DC because that's where he works and one cabin in the woods for the state he represents.
The big thing was “Bernie has 3 houses he’s a fancy millionaire” when he has just his home in Vermont, a townhouse in DC, and the “vacation house” which they either inherited from his wife’s mother or bought with the inheritance. It’s legit a very normal and mundane thing and his net worth of a couple million is honestly low for somebody who’s been in Congress for decades, he’s not Nancy Pelosi or Mitch McConnell who have closer to 100 million dollars by being corrupt goons.
If wealth was distributed equitably, everyone should have a net worth of a couple million by the end of their working life (the requirement for being able to actually retire)
Right I mean he’s also 83 and still working, a lot of people that age who just worked a normal job and retired have more money than him lol he’s definitely not whatever the chuds made him out to be.
Ah okay. I knew it was something like that, but not the exact number. He probably shouldn't have 3 homes because one of them could go to someone else, but like you said, Bernie isn't one of those congressional ghouls who owns like 100 properties across the country while buying up stock in Wayland-Yutani-RoyCo.