Economy

Financial disclosures show Tim Walz barely has any assets to his name. No stocks, bonds, or even property to call his own. Together with his wife, Gwen, his net worth is $330,000, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal citing financial disclosures from 2019, the year after he became Minnesota governor.

With that kind of meager nest egg, he would be more or less in line with the median figure for Americans his age (he’s 60), and even poorer than the average. One in 15 Americans is a millionaire, a recent UBS wealth report discovered.

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Meanwhile, the gross annual income of Walz and his wife, Gwen, amounted to $166,719 before tax in 2022, according to their joint return filed that same year. Walz is even entitled to earn more than the $127,629 salary he receives as state governor, but he has elected not to receive the roughly $22,000 difference.

“Walz represents the stable middle class,” tax lawyer Megan Gorman, who authored a book on the personal finances of U.S. presidents, told the paper.

he is worth $330,000 and he makes combined with his wife $166,719

that is way more than most people know such as the skilled plumbers know who make $13 an hour for a skilled trades job

Walz USED to be the average middle class US citizen but sadly the US has either poor or rich with the middle class gutted to almost extinction

teachers are not even making a third of Walz's worth in this country

fuck Walz, fuck Harris, and fuck Trump and fuck their donors for taking over our country