But averages don’t tell the full story: Middle-income and lower-income Americans’ wages stopped outpacing inflation last year, according to Bank of America.

As if the first go around wasn’t telling enough. But, hey, at least the plutocracy has another tax cut that they bought and paid for.

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    Cost of living: the day to day expenses like food and clothes. A big financial problem, especially now.

    Cost TO live: the general expenditures for life-saving medical-care. A catastrophic financial problem, historically so but more so today.

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      Ahhh. I thought cost of living were the necessary expenditures like roof and food.

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        Ahhh. I thought cost of living were the necessary expenditures like roof and food.

        Did you not read the first sentence in my post?

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          I’m confused. I said something dumb I guess, then admitted it. Which first sentence did I miss?

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              What the hell? I’m trying to be personable here. I don’t get what you’re irritated about. I said something dumb. You explained and got me squared away. I said that I understood better now and what my misunderstanding was. Then you’re just unnecessarily hostile. ¯_(ツ)_/¯