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Bengus81

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4. As a senior I've said to myself over and over you can't afford to live and
Tue Dec 31, 2024, 08:41 AM
Dec 2024

and can't afford to die...


The fucks that own the electric,gas,water (city owned) cable and even trash companies just do a endless loop of rate hikes--and I've yet to see just ONE where our KCC-if applicable says NO to them. They ask for twice the increase they really want just to make sure they get what they want. They get one rate increase done and 8-9 months later file for another.

Most of their CEO's drag down $10+ million per year and then they BITCH about their costs. Where I live the home property taxes have been jacked so much over the last five years seniors can't keep up (I'm one of them) with mikey mouse 2.5% SS increases. And...of course you never actually get 2.5% either because of Medicare increases. Home insurance rates are ridiculous and keep going up. When you have a hurricane in Florida we get rate hikes in Kansas.

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