Considering the relative shortage of hitmen-for-hire vs. the vast number of people who oughta be killed, supply vs demand suggests that the $1K is the merest hint of a down payment on the real thing.
In his telling, he was not conspiring to commit murder when he paid Ms. Magbanua about $100,000 and then hired her for a no-show job at the family’s dental practice for $3,000 a month. Instead, he testified, he was the victim of an extortion plot by Mr. Markel’s killers.
So apparently $100k+ is the going rate
If the hitman manages to keep records identifying you and what you asked for, I suspect it’s going to be everything in your bank account and everything you earn for the rest of your life.
Yabbut…hitmen are more unreliable than building contractors. And they’re not bonded, so how can you even begin to trust them? Can’t go by the Yelp reviews.
Well, maybe that’s a promising market niche, a rating site for online hitmen. Everything’s anonymous and confidential, of course…
Angie’s Hit List!
Which is also the solution to @thorny_locust’s completely reasonable concerns about blackmail from the hit man.
Big Vito gets zero shivs. He’s been blackmailing me constantly since the hit. Would not recommend.
Any hitman wanting repeat business, or any business at all, really needs to keep their Angie’s hit list history up around 4-1/2 shivs minimum. 
Big Angie’s List.
Not exactly a stupid motherfucker, but someone asked me why we have not heard anyone say, “Israel is attacking Gaza with rockets and white phosphorus and other conventional weapons. Why are they doing that? Why don’t they just use the Jewish Space Laser?”
It probably isn’t exactly stupidity, because I suspect they also won’t take the fact that Israel isn’t doing so as proof that there ain’t any such thing.
With Hamas getting ready to fly across the border from Mexico in paragliders*, taxpayers want to know why Trump foolishly invested in a wall rather than a Jewish Space Laser program for the US.
*I can’t find who said this, but I think it was someone in Congress
Maybe Jared Moskowitz? He’s very snarky on twitter. I just love him.
It’s “Hummus”, please, at least according to the supporters of my Idiot Congressman.
Hummus, coming across the boarders.
Ooh, nice, will I be able to buy it at the taco truck at every corner?
Of course not. You get it from the falafel truck across the street.
But if there’s a taco truck on every corner, and a falafel truck across the street (meaning on the same corner as the taco truck across the street), the two would try to occupy the same physical location … resulting in a space/time collision that would destroy the planet.
So THAT’S the Demonrats’ fiendish plan! You broke the code!
Maybe the falafel trucks are in the middle of the block?
Hummuzilla vs Refritor ?
There is an storefront eatery near me which has Indian food (curries, masalas, tandoori stuff, etc.) served taco-style in tortillas, not naan. That’s not quite the same as when a falafel truck superposes in the spacetime continuum with a taco truck, but it’s close.
It’s also darn good.
I found this on a terrorist site, showing how to make a deadly biological weapon.
