Slave Nation
You don’t need glasses to see that the American middle class is slowly fading into oblivion. With more and more folk living paycheck to paycheck, the poorhouse is just one unexpected expense away.
So it’s certainly wonderful to see our government has a plan.
Plan Would Let Seniors Work to Pay Taxes
GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — Audrey Davison lives alone, gets a $620 Social Security check each month and worries about the sharply rising taxes on her four-bedroom house. Davison, 76, raised her family there and after 43 years, she really doesn’t want to leave Greenburgh.
Greenburgh doesn’t want her to leave, either.
The town is pushing a program that would let seniors work part-time, for $7 an hour, to help pay off some of their property taxes.
[...]Davison, who suffers from arthritis and sciatica and needs a walker to get around on her bad days, said she pays about $12,000 a year in property taxes - perhaps $2,000 to the town - and has already taken out a reverse mortgage to pay her bills.
Talking to Feiner last week at the town senior center, she said, “I would work as long as it was a job where I could sit.”
“You could be a receptionist!” [Town Supervisor Paul] Feiner said. “You could greet people right here, when they come in.”
