Let's Get Fleeced

Every month we find bills from our utilities, car, home and luxury services that must get paid and leaves our bank accounts, a tad on the skimpy side. Are you aware of the charges and fee’s you pay?

A business operates to generate monies to pay for it’s business loan, staff, products, shipping, advertising, make a profit, etc. In addition to your monthly bill, have you noticed the other user fee’s that are added that serves to inflate the monies owing to them?

A few places to observe additional fee’s can be found in everyday services that we may use, such as the following;

– Gratuity fee’s, major hotels add this to the final bill upwards of 15% .
– Cell phones, add 30% to advertised prices to include surcharges and fee’s for cancellation, switching carriers, and/or activation.
– Disposal fee’s, municipalities and cities are charging to gain access to garbage and refuse sites.
– Placing Orders, fee’s can accrue when placing travel orders online.
– Statements, invoices or communications mailed to you will have fee’s.
– Cable T.V., additional costs or *network fee* for using their digital services.
– National Parks, may require pay entry or parking fee.
– Buy Now, Pay Later, administration fee’s upwards of $100.00 may be required before leaving the store.
– Delivery, additional fee’s to pay for delivery to your home.

Bank fee’s are unavoidable for many people with their assorted services in mortgage, atm, personal and business loans, etc. Yet, some of these very banks, somehow managed, to get into financial troubles with a few lucky to get bailed out too. We know that fee’s are used to support or offset costs of government run programs and services but should they be used to inflate prices for business services?

I thought it was our tax dollars that allowed for operation of some business programs and services, (some are granted government subsidies) and here we are forking out yet more monies. Just what is going on with our money system? how much is enough? these are questions we should ask of our selves, with each other and wonder what the future will hold for our children, if this trend continues.

I am sure that the People could come up with a few ideas of their own to resolve this issue but would necessitate having to confront our leaders. Democracy refers to the powers of a government obtained by consent of the governed. Maybe, some sort of reform movement is necessary to make changes to the existing values running amok. What are your thoughts on changing today’s values for a better tomorrow? erosion of customer services? forking out more monies?

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