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bitchesgetriches · 6 months
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I live in a very liberal, and expensive, state. I don't know if I can afford to stay, but I don't know if I can afford to leave either because of the ~political hellscape~ outside. How do I choose where I live?
My darling child, this is a SUPER valid question. We've thought about it a lot! Most of our thoughts and advice are in this episode of our podcast (scroll down the link for the transcript if you'd rather read than listen):
Season 4, Episode 8: "I’m Queer, and Want To Find an Affordable Place To Retire. How Do I Balance Safety With Cost of Living?" 
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comicartarchive · 10 months
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Death - High Cost Of Living 3 pg19-20 by Chris Bachalo
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 7 months
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"THE COST OF LIVING IS STILL SOARING," Toronto Globe. September 10, 1913. Page 7. --- AND THE PROSPECTS FOR A PRONOUNCED DROP ARE NOT VERY BRIGHT. ---- (Canadian Press Despatch.) Ottawa, Sept. 9. - The cost of living index number took another jump upwards last month from 135.9, the figures for July, to 136.2. In August, 1912, the figures were 133.3, so that there was near a three-point in. crease in August of this year compared with the same month a year ago. "And," say the officials at the Labor Department who compile the average cost of prices every month, "the prospects for any pronounced drop in the average cost of the commodities classified under the list of necessities of life are not very bright."
The cause for the advance in the average cost last month was principally due to the increase in price of potatoes, eggs, canned lobster, anthracite coal, grains and fodder. Such things as beef, lamb, butter, lake trout, whitefish, canned peas and coffee dropped a few points.
Meats are a little higher in price than they were a year ago, but grains - and fodder are lower.
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newyorkthegoldenage · 2 years
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April 24, 1920, was the day of the much-heralded “Overalls Parade.” Organized to protest the high cost of clothing (and therefore living), marchers donned overalls, which were then a new type of clothing.
Overalls Clubs had been forming around the country for some time, mostly in Southern states, to protest against profiteering. The NY Tribune said that manufacturers were turning 16 cents’ worth of denim into $3 of profit. In New York, the parade was conceived and run by the Cheese Club, a non-political group whose members worked in theater, show-biz journalism, and publicity.
The parade’s origin as a grass-roots movement was undermined by the excitement leading up to the parade. Judges, bankers, nightclub staff, and railroad executives dressed themselves in overalls. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus donated elephants, and mounted city policemen led off the parade.
April 24 was cool and damp. Instead of the thousands of marchers predicted by the Cheese Club and the press, the Times and the Sun and Herald counted only 249.  The Tribune put the number at 180. The Overalls Parade became a local byword for failure.
Photos: LoC
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soulmusicsongs · 10 months
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High Cost Of Living - Al King (High Cost Of Living / Nosey Neighbors, 1970)
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ohello0 · 2 months
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So strange to think that we’re well past 2020 levels of the world falling apart and we don’t even have the ability to rest in “lockdown” or “quarantine” to fully comprehend what’s happening to us and our futures
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faircatch · 3 months
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Things haven't changed since this was made.
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finlaure13 · 4 months
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pastdaily · 7 months
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Call For Affordable Healthcare In 1941 - Past Daily Reference Room
They couldn’t get affordable health care either. https://pastdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/universal-healthcare-debate-dec-4-1941.mp3 – Universal Healthcare Debate – Dec. 4, 1941 – As a reminder of just how long the debate over affordable Healthcare has been going on, here is a panel discussion and Q&A from December 4,1941, featuring Dr. SS. Goldwater, City Hospital commissioner for New…
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freehawaii · 1 year
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chawsl · 2 years
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Written by a Constance Chew.
Properties of 99-year leasehold are the worst form of tax any government can levy on its citizens...
A 99-year leasehold HDB flat in S'pore will depreciate to ZERO at the end of its lease, while freehold properties in UK & USA will appreciate a few folds in value...this amounts to MILLIONS if not BILLIONS stolen from our future generations...!
CPF pays only about 3% interest compared to 5, 6 or even 7% for other pension funds in the West...
GIC and Temasek claimed to earn double digit rates of returns on investments over the past three decades...why can’t they at least match what other pensions pay over the same tenure...?
3% extra interest when compounded over 3 decades makes a significantly substantial difference to one’s retirement savings...!
The lost in earnings can be considered to be an implicit form of tax since the dividends earned on the funds are not returned to the people but locked up and maybe squandered away through other bad investments...
Medisave is also a form of tax...in the West, you get FREE healthcare in public hospitals but in S'pore, you pay with your Medisave and out of your own pocket...!
The CPF minimum sum is also a form of tax...in the West, the state gives you a pension after retirement, but in S'pore, you fund your own retirement through monthly payouts from your own CPF monies, that's if you have sufficient funds in your account to begin with in the first place...
The government also controls a large part of the domestic economy through Temasek's companies, leading to inefficient competition and high prices...
Just compare the subscription rates for cable TV, mobile phones, broadband and other telecommunication services between S'pore & HK...
The government is also the biggest landloard and can manipulate the prices of land and rentals through land sales and population increase...in the West, most of the revenue collected when you shop or dine go towards paying the workers who are protected by minimum wage but in S'pore, most of the revenue generated go towards paying the rent...
Each time we go to a cafe to buy a cuppa, we contribute more to the government's coffers through paying for the retailer's rental than the actual operating costs of the cup of beverage we consume...!
High land prices result in high rentals and leads to high costs of living...
Isn’t high land prices a form of indirect tax levied on the people since most of the money we pay go towards paying for land & rentals...?
Add in extra implicit taxes like COE, ERP, GST, alcohol and tobacco excise duty; no wonder S'pore is the most expensive city in the world...!
And you know where most of the money you pay ends up...!
So how can S'pore still be a relatively low tax country that accords the people reasonably affordable costs of living...?
Please.....!!!
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 9 months
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"IL FAUT DEJA PENSER A L'HIVER," Le Petit Journal. July 9, 1933. Page 19. ---- Dans les foyers pauvres, on redoute déjà le prochain hiver. Les enfants s'emploient à faire provision de bois, car le charbon reste, hélas, trop cher. Réussira-t-on à enrayer avant l'hiver les spéculations qui maintiennent ce prix élevé! C'est possible, car on verra, page 20, les conclusions du rapport officiel du registraire, accablantes pour le monopole. (Photo "Petit Journal").
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balu8 · 6 months
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Death becomes mortal for a day.
Death: The High Cost of Living #1
by Neil Gaiman (W.);Chris Bachalo (P.); Mark Buchingham (I.); Steve Oliff (C.) and Todd Klein (L.)
DC/Vertigo
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oh my god
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yeah. yeah of course dream mr "existential angst all hours of the day" "the great stories will always return to their original forms" of the endless is insufferable about the disney remake of little mermaid
death please keep telling us meaningless trivia about your siblings this is hilarious
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wilwheaton · 1 year
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(via Death of the Endless, Chris @ Torchlight Tattoo, Waterloo Ontario : tattoos)
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yowyowyaoi · 1 year
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Obito: I love him!
Gai: I love him more! He’s my man of destiny!
Obito: He’s MY soulmate!
Gai: You know what? This is pointless. What are we, children? Instead of fighting over him, let’s agree to share him.
Obito: I can agree with that. How about … I get him for the first half of the week, Monday through Wednesday, and you get him the last, Friday through Sunday?
Gai: What about Thursday?
Obito: Thursday we evenly split him. He’ll be with me from morning until mid afternoon, and then he goes to you from that afternoon until your time ends on Sunday.
Gai: I agree with that. How about, on Holidays, we’re both with him for that entire day?
Obito: Agreed. Shake on it?
Gai: *holds out his hand* How ‘bout we go get some drinks to celebrate this decision, Uchiha?
Obito: If you’re buying, I’m in.
*the two walk off with their arms slung over each other’s shoulders*
Kakashi: what the fuck 
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