Are you better off than you were four years ago?

[OKTexas]

are you really that stupid?

You think inflation is eating up tens of thousands of dollars a year?

Add in to this we moved into a new house we had built a year ago and even with the higher rates our power bill has been about 1/3 of what it was in our previous house due to this one being smaller and far more efficient. Lower housing payment each month and I drive about 1/5 of what I was driving in 2019.

Even if your sale taxes remained the same, you're still paying more sales tax than previous because the items you purchase are costing more. You'll be paying more in income taxes and probably property taxes,. They say its costing the average family $7,000 more per year to live due to inflation. BTW the cost of that new home costs a lot more than it would have in 2019. All those new appliances, drapes and other fixtures to outfit that home costs more. So you're free to delude yourself if you wish, just don't expect me to join you.

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[bdtex]

Please correct me if I am wrong.

You are wrong.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Even if your sale taxes remained the same, you're still paying more sales tax than previous because the items you purchase are costing more. You'll be paying more in income taxes and probably property taxes,. They say its costing the average family $7,000 more per year to live due to inflation. BTW the cost of that new home costs a lot more than it would have in 2019. All those new appliances, drapes and other fixtures to outfit that home costs more. So you're free to delude yourself if you wish, just don't expect me to join you.

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You are free to wallow in your misery, the wife and I have never been doing better.

But then again, I do not tie my success to a political party like you.

 

[Winco]

Because I have to spend a lot more to live and can't save as much as I was. Simple math, try it.

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I spend more to live on too, and I'm earning more too. +++
SO tell me that 'inflation' story again, and HOW I CANNOT possible be ahead.

I'm NOT one of those non-working shills, ie Road Runner and marvin martian

 

[XponentialChaos]

Again STFU. Look what its doing to average Americans... You are saying I got mine and fuck every one else.

Freaking Trucks now cost what a house used to cost.

Again, you don’t control how I respond. I wasn’t even talking to you when I answered the OP.

The majority of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. That was before covid and before inflation.

People like you should make better decisions instead of blaming your failures on inflation. Plenty of us are doing better in the last four years.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Yes. I am better off than I was 4 years ago. It is not even close.

How? I am betting you are lying your ass off!

 

[JackOfNoTrades]

Most say nation on wrong track, including Dems: AP-NORC poll

A new poll shows an overwhelming and growing majority of Americans say the U.S. is heading in the wrong direction, including nearly 8 in 10 Democrats.

apnews.com

The most useless poll question ever created.
You do understand that at any snapshot in time that a majority of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction..right?

 

[beautress]

or 3?

who the fuck spends 750 on electricity?

Someone who won't put in give-aways to put a solar panel on her roof because they're known to confuse migrant birds whose droppings feed the tall pine forest nearby. If everybody does it, we will not have forests any more. I'm not going to contribute to losing the forests. As a consequence, I will have to spend four or five hundred dollars more on electricity and suffer being thought of as a stupid kook, just like you think. I live in the country, and my well runs on electricity, and a veteran charity I support that's nobody else's business.

 

[eagle1462010]

Again, you don’t control how I respond. I wasn’t even talking to you when I answered the OP.

The majority of Americans live paycheck-to-paycheck. That was before covid and before inflation.

People like you should make better decisions instead of blaming your failures on inflation. Plenty of us are doing better in the last four years.

I make more money now dick head.

You ignore the average people who are being destroyed by this inflation

 

[OKTexas]

If he has a mortgage like yours, that's actually deflationary. CD rates are higher than most current fixed term mortgages.
And if you don't have credit card debt you avoid the 25% interest they're charging.

He doesn't he just moved to a new home. My credit cards pay me 1.5% cash back and I haven't paid a penny in interest in decades. I use my credit cards to pay all my bills and get money back on everyone.

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[XponentialChaos]

I make more money now dick head.

You ignore the average people who are being destroyed by this inflation

Oh. So you’re also doing better now than you were 4 years ago?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Someone who won't put in give-aways to put a solar panel on her roof because they're known to confuse migrant birds whose droppings feed the tall pine forest nearby. If everybody does it, we will not have forests any more. I'm not going to contribute to losing the forests. As a consequence, I will have to spend four or five hundred dollars more on electricity and suffer being thought of as a stupid kook, just like you think. I live in the country, and my well runs on electricity, and a veteran charity I support that's nobody else's business.

I do not have solar panels on my roof and even when it was 90 plus for more than a month straight our bill never got above 220, and I run my AC as low as 68 at night.

 

[beautress]

My rates went up too. But between the energy star appliances, and the LED light bulbs, i'm actually paying less for electricity each month.

I put leds in my home 2 years ago.

 

[eagle1462010]

Oh. So you’re also doing better now than you were 4 years ago?

I work more hours now. I make more money, but way more going out inflation.

Average Joes are fucked right now. This inflation makes Peanut Head look like an amatuer

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

are you really that stupid?

You think inflation is eating up tens of thousands of dollars a year?

Add in to this we moved into a new house we had built a year ago and even with the higher rates our power bill has been about 1/3 of what it was in our previous house due to this one being smaller and far more efficient. Lower housing payment each month and I drive about 1/5 of what I was driving in 2019.

What did Biden and the Dems do to make that happen?

Chances are your "1/3 of what it was" electrical bill would have been even lower!

Your driving distance was not changed by the government now, was it?

You are a poor liar.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

He doesn't he just moved to a new home.

a year ago, my rate if 5%. And even with that I am paying less for housing than before I moved.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

How could you not be?

Between the wife and I our income is up easily 35 to 40 percent since 2019, maybe even more but I do not really feel like breaking out my old tax forms to check.

Who do you work for?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

I put leds in my home 2 years ago.

then how the hell do you hit 750?

What do you have in your house using that much power?

 

[Lesh]

My monthly electric bill went from around $200 to $750 in less than a year.

Sure it did

Moron

Ouch. Why?

She’s lying. Does it all the time

 

[Care4all]

My monthly electric bill went from around $200 to $750 in less than a year.

Holy smokes! Our electric bill has never been over $200 in the worst of times! It did used to be when we first moved here, never higher than $100 bucks, so it has doubled over the past 17 years!

But I try to remember, we do not have the summer heat and central air conditioning to pay for....like y'all in the South.....

We do have big heating oil bills in the winter, for a forced hot water system that does not use electricity for fans and blowers.... And even our hot water for showers is from the house oil heat, so no electric hot water heater either....