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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnyone else notice that the gas price rise ate up most of the tax cut?
for us poor and middle class. Gas now cost @ $5 more a week eating up all of that $1.50 a week tax cut.
Thanks Trump, Ryan and McConnell. And a special thanks to Iowa's republican loons - Grassley, Ernst, Blum, King and Young!
Yonnie3
(17,516 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Mission Accomplished!
CountAllVotes
(20,884 posts)a month.
Not even enough to buy a solitary gallon of gasoline here. Was $3.85/gallon yesterday and I cannot afford to go anywhere!
Dump this tRump dude ASAP to Save America!
Freddie
(9,282 posts)[link:https://www.irs.gov/individuals/irs-withholding-calculator
That "bigger paycheck"? Lots of folks going to be quite upset next spring.
WhiteTara
(29,736 posts)WooHoo
Yonnie3
(17,516 posts)Medicare and the Supplemental Insurance increased much more than I got.
CountAllVotes
(20,884 posts)The "increase" (COLA) all went to Medicare, all of it. My two-bit pension went up just a bit over $2.00/month but the other employees that are retired that were CEO level retirees got 5%!
Feed the rich and starve the poor!
WhiteTara
(29,736 posts)I've become a dollar-aire
CountAllVotes
(20,884 posts)Whoops, forget that idea.
And you thought those $2 were really going to help a lot eh?
WhiteTara
(29,736 posts)of course, it is just a dream. This is the first increase I've gotten since I started drawing on my social security funds, but hey; I am grateful that I have this. I can't imagine my life without it.
CountAllVotes
(20,884 posts)You earned it and so did I. Maybe it wasn't exactly how I had planned things to work out but we wouldn't get a cent had we not paid OUR FAIR SHARE into Social Security!
Enjoy your life as a retired person. You earned it, every cent of it and YOU deserve it and a hell of a lot more, especially if you are a woman!
nolabear
(42,004 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,706 posts)But hey, no worries. Trump voters just pay it with a smile. After all, Donnie is going to give us an extra $12 a week.
spanone
(135,935 posts)safeinOhio
(32,754 posts)Costco membership.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)How is that secretary Paul Ryan was extolling going to afford her annual Costco membership now?
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,255 posts).
I'm a single parent with four kids and three of them are in or college bound.
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XRubicon
(2,213 posts)elocs
(22,650 posts)XRubicon
(2,213 posts)The cost of food will go up and if you live in a rural area your home value will drop.
rurallib
(62,482 posts)elocs
(22,650 posts)I don't buy much food, don't live in a rural area, don't own a home. I'm poor but I know how to follow the steps and jump through the hoops to get what I need.
There's nothing I can do about the price of gas so there's no point in getting wound up about it.
kentuck
(111,111 posts)....when the price of gas goes up, we notice it immediately. When you have to pay $10 a week more, it can make a big difference sometimes.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,125 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,116 posts)at the first of the year.