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The Poor Pay More For Everything: It's Organized by Zipcode
by Lonnie Hicks
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Rated "G" by the Author.

       
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     The Poor Pay More

The poor pay more for everything: For;

Auto Insurance and auto repairs

Food: Higher Prices and Lower Quality

Higher Sales taxes and they can't buy in bulk.

Income taxes. Rich pay less taxes so we poor have to make it up

Federal Taxes same as above

Life Insurance: Ghetto living is dangerous-cop killings high

Medical Insurance See above

Drugs: Devastation & families destroyed=more drug addictions

Municipal services from electricity to water to sewage. Cost more Zip coded

Housing: Redlined by zip code

Schools: High taxes: lower quality

Political representation is nil and gerrymandered so laws passed

which discriminate against you.

Transportation: no public transportation and high costs for used cars

Pay More in medicare: Rich don't pay medicare after 118k

More in social security Rich don't pay Social Security after 117k

Environmental hazards and cleanup

Air pollution (highest asthma rates)

Death rates vary even by ajoining zip codes

Police don't solve crimes in your area. Often fail to even show up. Ditto fire as well.

Buying homes: Realors scare whites into selling by busting the block, then buy up white homes at 2/3 of their real value.

All of the above are in fact subsidies which allow the rich to pay lower rates on these same items because the poor pay more, the rich pay less. 

     

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Reviewed by Ronald Hull 3/22/2017
Insidious discriminatory practices, primarily in real estate. I live in a very diverse part of Southwest Houston that still has a fairly good tax base. Unfortunately, many of the poor come to this neighborhood to live on subsidized rent/housing and leave even less for the neighborhoods back home. Some of these neighborhoods have only the elderly and criminal element left.

Ron

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