Also knows that he's going to owe federal taxes and doesn't have any money to pay a lump amount, meaning that his monthly required payments will be larger, so that's less money he can spend on gacha pulls and doordash.
Wait, it works that way? Because if it does, that makes my speculation on his future even MORE likely. The more he begs for and gets contributions, the more he owes in taxes, and the more he keeps wasting it on gacha, the more the amount owed piles up. If the minimum monthly payment is going to keep increasing along with that, that means the IRS isn't fucking around here, at least not to the degree that Phil needs them to in order to keep going with this bullshit and face no consequences. It means it's possible for him to one day, years from now, no longer be able to keep up with the minimum monthly payments. After all, it already is being impacted by his gacha spending. That's not going to just stop, or be willingly decreased, at any point. Even if Phil stopped increasing his spending, it will still fuck him when it comes to affording his back taxes, one day. If the minimum keeps going up, that is.
This is, of course, to say nothing of the wild card that is his tax guy. If they suddenly press him for more details, he isn't going to put his own ass on the line for Phil. That may be a big IF, but gambling on the outcome of that isn't wise.
Hotly anticipating the inevitable shift in the Greed/Pride/Sloth power balance when he goes back to blowing bubbles and eating candy like a three-year old.
I mean I prefer for him to just snap and say the truth for once, but we probably need to go through that pathetic desperation phase before we get to when he loses it completely. Unless there's something else afoot here, when it comes to what is making him sweat so hard.
I highly suspect phil still sends his mom a Christmas list every year.
I never considered that, good bit of speculation there. Though I'm doubtful because he seems to not truly enjoy Christmas, and we have good reason to believe Linda isn't as doting on her special boy as his spoiled behavior alone would suggest.