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Bohunk68

(1,434 posts)
6. I know just how much extra I have paid out.
Wed Jan 7, 2026, 06:18 AM
Wednesday

I like brewing my coffee from fresh ground dark roast beans. Had been getting it in 2# bags from SF Bay coffee. 3 bags every 3 months. In April, my cost was $59.37. In July, it went to $75.57 and in Nov and Jan it was $83.67. therefore, I have already paid $64.80 in tariffs, aka taxes. Enough for another 6# is it were still at the old pricing. Not wealthy at all. Barely surviving on $1502 SS per month. thanks be, the house got paid off when my love died. 3 maybe 4 years ago, I got Survivor benefits when a case came up of 2 women, one of whom died before they could have been married. It was the same parameters as what happened with us. She won. I was notified by our local Dem County Chair the same day. 3 months later, I had it, plus back pay from 2006 when he died of pancreatic cancer. We had been together for 27 years. It has been 20 years soon, and I miss him terribly. Now, I am concerned that Putinfluffer is going to screw all of us out of it with the cooperation of SCOTUS.

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