Corporate health benefit packages are being squeezed, raising costs to seniors. Electric bills are skyrocketing. Local taxes are rising.
These may or may not be the unintended consequences of Obacare, environmentalism, and wasteful/corrupt bureaucracies.
I took a job with a former customer after my business went down, grateful to have it, and they’re quite busy unlike many companies. But, pay increases are nonexistent and the very modest health insurance package with a high deductable is going up relentlessly.
I haven’t noticed a big increase in electric, because Duke Energy was denied their 10% increase due to falling demand (!!!??? the joys of being a monopoly) and efforts to minimize power usage.
My personal overhead is as low as it’s going to get, shy of paying off the mortgage in full. I’ll survive. I have to wonder about those not as well set, even though I’ve had quite the decline myself.