I thought Hardin kind of over-egged this particular pudding. While the attempted brothel purchases obviously belong in there and cast important light on Greer's claims about his financial status, who cares whether he spends $5k, $14k or $50k on hookers? It looks like an attempt to prejudice the court against him. "Look at this man of low morals. He spends $14k a year on prostitutes. What a scoundrel."
That's a logical explanation for putting it in there, but $14k over the course of a year is hardly Ferrari territory. It's more Audi/BMW/Lexus land.
Let's use basic mathematics and some common rules of thumb (Rule of thumbs? Rules of thumbs?) to determine why $14,000 is a big deal.
One of the previous streams that Potentially Criminal did over Greer indicated that Greer claimed in one of his own filings that he was making around $16 an hour. Let's assume $16 an hour for 40 hours a week, for 52 weeks:
16 x 40 x 52 = 33,280
But since the average American seems to get around 2 weeks of vacation, let's take off 2 weeks of pay, which could be $32,000. $14,000 of that income goes to paying for prostitutes.
He also has other bills, presumably, to pay for his wretched existence. Let's take one of the biggest expenses a person usually has: rent. A common rule of thumb is that you should aim not to spend more than about 30% of your income on rent. What percent would that be from Greeeeeeeeee's income?
0.3 X 33,280 = $9,984. Alternatively, using the figure I mentioned above that accounts for him only working 50 weeks and not 52, $9,600.
$14,000 is more than $9,600. It's a lot more. It's still a lot more than $9,984. What percentage is that, though?
(14,000/33,280) x 100 = 42.06%. Alternatively: (14,000/32,000) x 100 = 43.75%. What does that really mean though?
Mathematically speaking, Russell spends more money on prostitution percentage-wise than the average American is supposed to spend on rent.
It's the principle that a man who is willing to spend more money on prostitutes than the average person is supposed to spend on rent, who also lied to the court to get the ability to avoid paying for fees he's supposed to pay for through IFP status, absolutely should have the ability and responsibility to pay for attorney's fees. It has nothing to do with it being prostitution that he was spending money on.
He's not legally a pauper (as I'll detail further below), but him being poor has nothing to do with him making such little money that he's legally impoverished (which he isn't), and everything to do that he's a freak that pays for pussy, so much so that it leaves him financially destitute, which is not the court's fucking problem...until he claims IFP to try to bypass it to fuck someone else over, then it is their problem.
Personally I don't see how Greer actually could pay since I think his income comes from driving for Lyft or Uber and probably amounts to close to minimum wage after expenses. But that's incongruous with his many public statements so it would be up to Greer to prove that he is in fact a broke bitch.
To qualify for IFP, you have to meet a numerical criteria, which is 200% of the federal poverty line. What is 200% of the federal poverty line in Nevada?
200% of the federal poverty level of Nevada is $31,300. But wait a second, my previous calculation of $32,000 (if he works 50 weeks, and not 52 weeks) is higher than $31,300. What percentage is it, though?
(32,000/31,300) x 100 = 102.23. Sure, it's just barely more than the legal requirement for IFP, but (as Potentially Criminal said), "It doesn't matter if it's barely over, FUCK HIM!"
And I'm fairly sure that the money he claims to make now is less than what he claimed to make when he filed for IFP in the first place. Meaning, according to Russell's own words, he doesn't just not meet the requirement for IFP currently, he never met it. And he should be paying for it, metaphorically speaking, as well as literally. Every day this abomination of a lawsuit is permitted to live despite numerous "Shall" statements that indicate it should've been dismissed is a gift to Russell's dumb ass, but now that gift should be a millstone that drowns him.