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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is full of envious people.  If you can afford it, what's the big deal?[/quote]
I don't know how to drive around in a $200k car knowing all the lives I could change with the, I dunno, $175k I could have saved if I just bought a normal car?  
Start a scholarship fund, fund a dog shelter, I dunno.  But spending $200k on a car is a perfect example of what's wrong with people.[/quote] You can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase. Did you buy any new clothes? New shoes? You bought a car other than a retired Crown Vic police car? Shame on you for wasting money instead of using that money to change other people's lives.

You may find it incomprehensible to drive around in a $200k car, but other people can. Your value system isn't superior on an objective basis. [/quote]
Yes, you can say the same thing about any non-essential purchase, but the comparisons only go so far. OP's DH can buy a different luxury car for $100k, which is still way, way more expensive than any car most people could ever afford to buy AND still feed a hundred people for an entire year with the leftovers. I am upper middle-class in one of the richest countries in the world and the biggest splurges in my entire life are still many orders of magnitude smaller than $200k. [/quote]
Typical rich liberal nitwit.  It's okay if she does it.  But anyone else richer than her or more extravagant than her - oh go feeeeed poorrr people!  [/quote]
This is why I can't stand most liberals.  They have their own set of rules, and are not at all tolerant of anyone else.  And yet they'll never see it.

OP - I say go for it.  I am a car person myself.  Just make sure your husband drives it and enjoys it![/quote]
Super weird that you are assuming that the people who think it's more important to donate to charity than to buy luxury items are liberals.

I'm a liberal who thinks depending on finances it's fine to buy the car. But IME philanthropy is pretty uncorrelated with political party. Though if you believe what many of the liberal-bashers say, it's conservatives who donate more to charities than liberals.[/quote]
It's desire to spread other people wealth, suggestions to save the poor, the needy with other people money, not donating your own to charity, that gets this name.[/quote]

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