How Inflation Is Stealing Your Paycheck

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and your paycheck is getting smaller. Remember that from airplane and Leon’s getting larger. Nope, your paycheck is getting smaller. Yeah, today I had the, again, another great opportunity to see some member of the media, member of the media out there. Say, won’t you look, look at the numbers here.

My god the average Americans paycheck in november’s at a record high one thousand two hundred twenty one dollars and forty two cents Again I I It’s either one of two things Okay, either You don’t have a clue You just don’t know Okay, you’re just ignorant of how the world works or you’re lying to people

That’s it, because you’re just wrong. Yeah, the paycheck at $1,221.42, that’s great. But let me put it to you this way. Ask a kid, which weighs more, a pound of lead or a pound of feathers? And kids will like, hey, hey, pound of lead. No, no, they’re the same. A pound is a pound.

A dollar is not a dollar. A dollar from 2021 is not a dollar in 2024. It’s you can’t use it as any sort of benchmark or measurement. All let me explain it to you this way. Saquon Barkley, Saquon Barkley is he could break Eric Dickerson’s rushing record this year.

Now, you can compare the rushing record between Eric Dickerson and Saquon Barkley because a yard’s a yard. A yard for Eric Dickerson is a yard for Saquon Barkley. A dollar from 2021 is not a dollar today. If you factor in inflation and what a dollar is today, it brought in $176.86 less.

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than it did in 2021. That is the reality. You’re making less money. You’re making less money today than you were in 2021. That is because of inflation.

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You want to call it a tax? Call it what you will!

Your dollar is not worth the same. Your paycheck is not worth the same. Watchdogonwallstreet.com.