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Not old enough for Medicare and going broke with company insurance
Aging Well | Last Active: Sep 4, 2022 | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
I’m from PA, moved to NC in 1983. I make too much money for anything ($12.25/hour) unless I was on my own. I got married in 1987 and had a great paying job. My husband was killed in a car wreck when I was 38. A year later computers took over my job. No life insurance. I was 18 with a baby living with my parents when my dad took a better job in NC. One of the worst states for taxes on things I’ve ever lived in. You pay tax on your car when you buy it. Then you pay taxes on it every year. Crazy. Taxes on animals and outrageous state tax. Because the south is supposed to be lower cost of living. For the life of me I don’t see it
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That’s the catch, money, you’re not supposed to have much of it to qualify. Dirt poor is an appropriate description. Back in my life, I delivered newspapers, got real sick, turns out I was making $50 a month to much to qualify for Welfare as it was called back then. Be glad you’re not back here in PA, They tax the water you drink and then tax you when your body gets rid of it in the toilet. They tax you to cut a tree down and tax you if you plant another. They tax the gas you use, the cigarettes you smoke and the booze you drink to drown your troubles away. I think the price of a carton of popular cigarettes is over $100 now. They’re always robbing Peter to pay Paul, then saying they need more money. Such is life in PA, be glad for what you have or someone may want to tax it out of existence