Comments on: Scott’s Plan For New Business Could Cost You On Your Electric Bill

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 00:42:49 +0000

REGARDING MISSING COLA:

According to the Social Security Administration, they give COLAs whenever the third quarter Consumer Price Index is higher than it was the last time they gave one. So far it is still lower than it was in 2008 even if it is higher than it was yesterday or last year.

Please note that they didn’t cut downward when the Consumer Price Index dropped, just quit giving more. This means you are still getting what the index says you needed back in 2008 even though it says you don‘t need that much now and haven‘t needed that much since 2008.

Maybe they are figuring it wrong, probably they are figuring it wrong, but they are figuring it the same way they did when you got an increase back in 2008 and the same way they have since the law was passed back in 1973.

Maybe you will get lucky and average prices will go up above what they were in 2008 and you will get more money to pay the higher prices.
Regardless, YOU’RE not the one getting ripped off.

I based the above on the SSA explanation found at
http://www.ssa.gov/oact/COLA/latestCOLA.html
“COLA Computation
The last year in which a COLA became effective was 2008. Therefore the law requires that we use the average CPI-W for the third quarter of 2008 as the base from which we measure the increase (if any) in the average CPI-W. The base average is 215.495, as shown in the table below.
Also shown in the table below, the average CPI-W for the third quarter of 2010 is 214.136. Because there is no increase in the CPI-W from the third quarter of 2008 through the third quarter of 2010, there is no COLA for December 2010. ”

By: Just saying

Just saying — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 20:41:46 +0000

Well, I used to consider myself a democrat until they became what we used to call liberals and now the republicans are what used to be democrats.
The democrats have done no better so quit whining. It’s never going to change so get used to it. Too many people don’t vote because they think their vote won’t change anything and so….nothing gets changed.

And, oh yeah, if you didn’t vote, you don’t have the right to complain.

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 16:54:55 +0000

Has Mr Scott thought about what that will mean to seniors on SSI who haven’t had a cola in 2 years? Everything has gone up, from coffee to gas, and now this?!

By: Ifish4

Ifish4 — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 15:30:24 +0000

A lot of the older generations said that Republicans are for big business and rich people, if you hard core Republicans don’t see it in this article, then you are either blind or looking the other way. It doesn’t say it’s to help small business’s to start up, it’s to help corporations. In other words, this rich criminal that you Republicans sold out to, wants the working class people to pay for new stores that corporations like Walmart and Target build in the future. Personally I can’t trust anyone that takes the 5th amendment once to keep from incriminating themselves, and especially someone that takes it 75 times like this cook had to do. As far as I’m concerned, taking the 5th amendment is as good as saying I’m guilty.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 13:59:14 +0000

So, you republicans still happy with the criminal you put in the gov’s office? This is nothing more than a tax on working people to pad the pockets of big business. Once again repubs get people to vote against their own interests.

By: N M

N M — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 11:59:51 +0000

If they keep going up on the electric bill 20% percent of us want have lights because we want be able to afford it.

By: huh

huh — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 02:13:17 +0000

To make the people pay for subsided businesses , isn’t that socialism? And what the Republicans rail against obama about, yet this guy is about to take from the middle class and poor, and give it to businesses

By: My Three Cents...

My Three Cents... — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 23:02:41 +0000

This is a crazy plan! When is someone going to cut workers bills so we can pay them?

By: S.L.B

S.L.B — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:47:29 +0000

Gov.-elect Rick Scott has lost his freaking mind! I didnt like or trust him when he was campaining and now I know why. I don’t like his problem solving skills one bit either!

It takes Residential customers all they can do now to pay their utility bills along with everything else. Let Gov.-elect Rick Scott see how humiliating it feels when the electric bill is so high during the heat of summer and you have to go ask for utility assistance in order to pay it. I’m sure he has NEVER had to do anything like that.

*NO to Scott’s new business plan*

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 16:23:00 +0000

REGARDING:
” have been paying a franchise fee for years. I have asked what it is for and no one can tell me”

It is a sales tax on energy consumption and as to what it is for, government likes to have your money. This is a way to get some. Don’t worry, though, they will use that money to help other deserving people. And they get to define who is deserving.

They tried to get Central Water Works, Inc to turn in our franchise so they could give us a new one which would allow them to tax us for pumping ourselves water. The members declined their offer. We thought WE were the deserving people.

David for the deserving