All of your hard work, going up in smoke.

How about no?

This has been tried before and the result is that only rich people can afford to run for office. Is that really what you want?

I was ribbing but also teeing you up to make the punchline for the Airplane joke “I am serious and don’t call me Shirley.”

Surely you can’t be serious?

When he said “we’ll give them a check” he meant taxpayers, not himself. He is too smart to pay taxes no doubt.