Community Chat

[threecees]

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@MamaWick wrote:

Ice cream!!  It should be free for everyone. 

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@MamaWick  I would have settled for a free Rita's ice but couldn't 

even get one last year or this year.

[Drythe]

Property Tax.

Paid tax on the money I used to buy, build, insure, and to maintain it.  Because I don’t live in town, but in a tiny township, I have nothing to say about how it is spent.

And because I’m out of the city limits, I provide my own services - mail pick-up, water, trash, sewage.

School tax is separate in my area, which, although we chose not to have children, I am OK with as it is our future.

Food Tax.

[tends2dogs]

Paying for people that refuse to work.  There are legitimate cases, but many of these people could get off their you know whats and get a job.  Also resent paying for benefits that go to noncitizens when many eligile citizens go without.  I have pity for these people wanting a better life, but we can't feed the hungry we have here that are citizens.  

[pdlinda]

@GenXmuse  I agree.  It's as if dental work is becoming a "luxury", like a vacation! 

When I see the obvious lack of dental work on certain people I know, or in the public (on TV, for example), I can believe they simply don't have the thousands of $$$ necessary to achieve and maintain good oral health (or, even if they have the $$ chose to spend it on other things).

[tipsy]

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@giova wrote:

Paper or plastic grocery bags. In California, if you don't bring your own grocery bag you get charged for the bags every time. I don't know if that's just a California thing or not.

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Yes, I'm in CA & it's annoying. I have 3 dogs & I need a lot of bags. My neighbors save me newspaper & bread bags, & out of state relatives save up those single use bags for me. Otherwise I have to pay for dog poop bags which is a ridiculous thing to have to pay for.

[roeroe1005]

Parking meters.

Even more than that, I extremely resent paying parking tickets.  I now set the timer on my phone.

[agb80]

Vehicle registration the cost of which seems very out of touch especially for used vehicles yet the DMV bases their fee on the MSRP for new.  Such a rip off. 

[Kalli]

@jubilant @Well, since you asked....

In my state I believe we pay the highest gas tax in the country. Supposed to pay for road repairs but many folks feel our roads are among the worst. And now we hear that the tax on every gallon of gas is going up AND even with that happening, there’s a discussion of possibly starting to charge tolls for certain bridges on one of our interstate routes.

[cactusgal]

The Internet.

[lenapecci]

Eyeglasses!  My visioni insurance hardly pays for the cost of one pair.  I would like to try to buy them online. But between trying to figure out the pupillary distance and how the frames would look and if they would be comfortable I hesitate to do it. I was told at one place my new prescription lenses would be $475.00.