It seems like every week a bill comes in the mail and you have to throw your money away on just the bills. It seems as if things are getting more expensive and more taxes are taken out our paychecks. It would be nice to have extra left over every week to do fun things like go to the movies, go to a amusement park (i.e. Disneyland), travel, help the poor. Is it just me or does it seem like our net pay is getting smaller and smaller every year?
2006-12-16 09:46:14 · 15 answers · asked by sunny4life 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Try living on or below the poverty level.But they say you make too much money to get a medical card.You haven't seen a dentist in 8 year's.you barely have enough money to buy food.But you get too much for food stamp's.My husband is a cancer,Parkinson's and heart patient has a bad back from a work injury and two torn rotator cuff's from a work injury.I have to take care of him like he was a baby.I have two bulging disc's and cannot work any more.I know there are a lot out there like us who fall thru the crack's.But why isn't there help for all.I had a stroke last year from the stress.
2006-12-16 10:15:35 · answer #1 · answered by flossie mae 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Having just moved jobs, I need to get through Christmas on whatever's left in my wallet (3 quid) and wait for the first (massive) paycheck.. The taxman insists on emergency tax too though, and my previous employer and bank are a hassle. I'd be happy just to be able to put food on the table every evening.
2006-12-16 09:52:42 · answer #2 · answered by McAtterie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have no idea how bad I wish I had more money than I do now. I love donating to poor people and things like St. Jude Children's Hospital but since I'm in college and disable at the time I always wish that I had more.
2006-12-16 09:51:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm getting a whopping $12.00 a month raise in January, But the govt wants $13.00 more in taxes, so I'll be losing 25 cents a week.
2006-12-16 09:57:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm so with you. The worst part is whenever I get my yearly raise at work,health insurance prices also goes up and I feel like I'm getting nothing.Just more of a reason to quit my job,leave civilization and live in the wilderness the rest of my life.
2006-12-16 09:53:08 · answer #5 · answered by As You Wish 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not the pay getting smaller, it's the taxes & the bills & the necessities & wants that keep getting bigger.
I blame the government.
2006-12-16 09:51:35 · answer #6 · answered by rrroboticcc 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
seem the world is not made for us poor and middle class people after paying all my bill's i'am lucky to have 20.00 left for a whole month food, high, utilities high, medicine high i know what you mean we need a break big time!
2006-12-16 10:22:21 · answer #7 · answered by mishoney 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree--A 40 hr paycheck hardly covers the basics anymore.
2006-12-16 09:50:34 · answer #8 · answered by dawnee_babe 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Our Disposable Income has been decreasing since 1955. It's not just you. I feel the same way too.
2006-12-16 09:47:53 · answer #9 · answered by Green-Eyed Gal 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm looking for a Sugar Daddy for those exact reasons! Maybe when I find one I'll let you know where they all are hanging at. Till then we are all just as broke as you are--
That is my standard line to bums on the street. "I'm just as broke as you are"
2006-12-16 09:49:36 · answer #10 · answered by JustLynn 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋