Total rehab cost with plane tickets, fuel, rental cars, wages, material almost $80K.  

They had minimum-wage jobs and aspirations of going to college and getting married one day.

You earn and pay taxes on wages and use those after-tax funds to repay the loan.

Being a high wage earner, I’m assuming you pay a fortune in taxes.

If history serves as a guide, this will result in higher unemployment and lower/negative wage growth, which could potentially snowball.-  What are the chances of a snowball effect from an uptick in unemployment and wage decline? 

Again I am in a very unique situation (though I’m sure others are high income earners that don’t need a huge cash pile).  

Really just a hypothetical here, but would investors, or I guess any high income earner, go for higher taxes if the government was held accountable and actually made to appropriately use tax dollars (infrastructure, investing in under-served areas, etc)?

All the while, wages will likely remain stagnant (save for UBI - which I think is likely) and inflation will be an indirect tax on those that don't own assets - which will further stifle the idea of the American Dream. 

LOST WAGES/JOB If you have lost employment you should consider applying for unemployment with the State of Maryland.

Yea it could go that route, or.........You could win the lawsuit, file a motion for attorney fees and then garnish his YouTube wages and/or place a lien on his vacation home in Pennsylvania......I'd imagine that's a pretty sweet outcome too.