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1. Worse yet, it's based on the spending patterns of families in Europe in the 1950's

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 05:15 PM

Dec 2012

It's one of those decisions that gets made as a stopgap early on in a system's development and becomes locked in. I'd love to see the CPI modernized.

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Question about CPI [View all] democrattotheend Dec 2012 OP

But why not use different prices for urban/rural democrattotheend Dec 2012 #3

Yes, I live in a urban area.. Panasonic Dec 2012 #4

DoD does something like that with per diem Recursion Dec 2012 #5

Probably because of the politics democrattotheend Dec 2012 #6

Your pay is tied to your employment, which dictates where you live. Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #7

You wouldn't have to pay it back democrattotheend Dec 2012 #9