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Expect Higher Prices in 2013 for Meat, Eggs & Public Transit

Among other must-haves and can-do-withouts...

Jan 4, 2013 by Dain Fitzgerald

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For the purpose of planning your household budget more wisely, below are "10 Things You'll Pay More For in 2013" courtesy of CNN.

Some of the items you can do without. Others are staples of any home. And while some of the following goods and services can place the price blame on politics or even nature itself, others are due to plain old market forces at work:

1. Health care: "Overall health care costs in the U.S. are also expected to jump this year by 7.5%."

2. New cars: "Some manufacturers are upping their 2013 sticker prices by $1,000 or more."

3. T-Mobile Smartphone: "T-Mobile customers will say goodbye to the $200 smartphone upgrade this year, meaning the purchase price of a smartphone will jump by hundreds of dollars."

4. Taxes: "Even though the fiscal cliff deal helped Americans avoid some tax hikes, workers will still pay more in taxes this year."

5. Public transit: "In many regions, transit agencies continue to face higher operational costs and stagnant tax revenues, forcing fare holders to fill the gap."

6. Mail: "The cost of a standard postage stamp will increase by a penny to 46 cents, while a postcard stamp will also go up by one cent to 33 cents."

7. Milk, cheese & eggs: "The fiscal cliff deal averted the so-called dairy cliff; however, grocery shoppers can still expect to pay more for dairy products in 2013."

8. Baseball tickets: "Teams raising ticket prices include the Kansas City Royals and Seattle Mariners."

9. Satellite television: "After a year of high-profile disputes between television distributors and programmers, many customers will see higher satellite TV bills in 2013."

10. Steaks, hamburgers and bacon: "Higher meat prices are linked to the historic drought that struck much of America's farmlands this year, causing the price of corn - a common ingredient in animal feed - to skyrocket."

Via CNN.

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Dan_Tien

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Adapt and overcome.
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marine1

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My new accounting philosophy, feniggle, feniggle & cheatum
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@marine1 Running for office, are you?
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marine1

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@Dan_Tien Do you really think people would vote for what i would have to say?:}
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@marine1 if it was between u and Obama, I would vote for you.
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marine1

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@Bullitt that hurt
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Yes.
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i think health care, and cheese are the only things that'll affect me...
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...and the taxes.
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And in related news the Stock Market closed at it's highest for the past 5 years. The rich get richer.
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marine1

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Well when the hell is it going to be my turn, this crap is getting old you know.
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woodtick57

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Whoo hoo!
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jessejaymes

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@marine1 It's never going to be our turn again partner. We just do the best we can and hope we go in our sleep.
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Stocks going up was just a ruse. The Unions are at the center of it, they want the rich to get richer so they can harass them about paying workers more. Workers that shouldn't be harassed about their guns!
Blah blah blah, other random stupid points about Obama that nothing at all to do with this thread. Patriotism good, Illegals bad, blah blah blah.
The rich need to pay 76% like in Utopia, France where life is perfect, there are no guns, and people really do shave, unlike the rumors spread here in America. Vive la résistance! Che rules! Add other Liberal talking points here.
Did I sound like others Jess? I didn't want you to feel like they weren't paying attention to your post.
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jessejaymes

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@Fishbone345 It is what it is man. There are no good guys in this film. I've seen it before.
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KyleMFb

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Nope...don't like it but can't do nothing about I didn't stop buying gas when oil company's marked it up for bigger profits
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Politicskid

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Gee, aren't you good with money!
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Everything is going up exept our pay.
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I'm going to demand a 10% raise this year. That'll give my bosses a good laugh. :-)
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marine1

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On the backs of the common man political pimps shall grow.
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woodtick57

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It ain't the common man paying all the taxes in this land of ours....
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frigginhell

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@woodtick57 It is the common man spending the money that keeps this country going. It is the common man that buys the food that is raising in price. It's the rich who own the corporate farms who make more money as a result. It is the common man who pays more at the pump day in and day out. The rich might own 12 mercedes each but they're not driving them all at the same time. It is the common man who goes to walmart to buy their clothes. When 2% of the population can afford to pay 1000 dollars for a pair of pants does that mean that they're adding more to the economy than the other 98% paying 20 dollars for a pair? Get a calculator, you'll find it does not. 42% of the financial wealth in this country is controlled by 1% of the population. The same group, the top 1%, pay 38% of the taxes in this country. It sounds like a good deal to me. The spin to try and make it sound like they're somehow unjustly being singled out for success is BS. It's a consumer based economy. It's the common man that is purchasing the goods that keep that consumer based economy going. Paying taxes on those items at each and every stop along the way. Go read another Ayn Rand novel and cry me a river. I'll continue to live in the real world where Apple just paid an effective 1.9 corporate tax rate in 2012 as they struggled to earn 36.8 billion dollars and becoming the largest corporation in this country. They must have made all that money selling their products to the 1%, right?
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woodtick57

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@frigginhell Bet those twelve cars the rich guy spent kept more people in work than the clunkers you bought off the bargain lot...
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@woodtick57 Chances are the rich guy used the cars as a write off
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@woodtick57 I bet the auto bailout that Obama signed did more to keep those union jobs intact than the mercedes I quoted that were built in Germany.
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1. Thank you Obama

2. Thank you unions

3. Change phone companies

4. Again thank you Obama

5. Public transit? Is that like a community hay ride?

6. They still sale stamps?!

7. More reasons to keep my cows, chickens, and goats.

8. The players must not make enough money.

9. Who needs TV?

10. Even more reasons to keep my cows, chickens, goats, and hogs.( I have to kill my turkey tomorrow. He killed a chicken and I can't have that happening.)
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mimi57

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Don't kill the turkey! Wait until next year... I didn't know turkeys ate chicken...I'm not a farm girl LOL
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PITA will be lookin for you
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WilliamWallace

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@mimi57 The turkey didn't eat the chicken, he just killed it. I think he is just mad and lonely since his girlfriend got ate by my hogs a couple of months back.

I just have to do it and get him on the table before my youngest kids notice he is missing.
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@marine1 The are welcome to stop by. I will feed them some turkey and if they want they can "feed" the hogs.
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@mimi57 the wild turkeys around my summer home are pretty tough, i wouldn't mess with them...
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mimi57

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No this will be great I just hope they don't raise the price of lettuce or carrots and I will drive or walk since I don't
use public transportation anyway I don't eat much meat or eggs and I don't use punctuation either is this hard to read...smiling (:
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WilliamWallace

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You must have read Kyle's post. Just add some incomplete sentences and double negatives and you will be spot on.
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DARSB

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Not a great deal of change for my family, we're winding down the lifestyle toward retirement anyway. Food prices will have the most impact but we live in a rural part of Colorado blessed with terrific farms and Farmer's markets, so perhaps those increases will be somewhat softened.
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They didn't mention government.
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PoliticalSpice

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Health care, public transit, cheese is all on the list that effect me. I invested in "forever stamps" when they were 42 cents, been saving money ever since on postage...
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Forever stamps ARE going up...
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@mimi57 but i have about 1400 left tgat i bought when they hit 42 cents. I'm like that, I buy good quality stocks when they are out of favor too, bought fcx at height of the downturn at $27a share...
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@PoliticalSpice Good...that's the best time to buy. I sold mine...
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woodtick57

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@PoliticalSpice $700 or so in stamps? man i couldn't use that many in ten lifetimes/ are you a hallmark card rep or something?
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PoliticalSpice

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@woodtick57 @mimi57 no i lnew i'd use them over time. Iqtrends.com a value investing newsletter for dividend playong blue chips. Very good helps pick companies you know at the bottom of stock cycle for those particular stocks.
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Thegrif

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So we get Obamacare and health care goes up.
We tax the rich more and still we got to tax the working slobs (me) more.

I could have done with out Obamas help. Thanks for nothin.
So what if the rich pay a little more, if everything goes up, then its the same difference to my wallet.
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health care was going up at this rate or higher before obamacare. maybe it slowed the cost hikes...
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marine1

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Said it before, saying it again, the rich didn't get that way by letting a bunch of political idiots ride rough shot over them. Pass onto others as they pass on to you.
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@marine1 they seem to be the whipping boys of politicians lately...
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@woodtick57 Yeah, you really have to feel for the rich taking it on the chin like they have for the past few decades. Them politicians just keep on whippin the well to do no matter how bruised and skint up they get.
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Thegrif

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@woodtick57 look that tax hike out real good, buried in there is a lot of new tax breaks for the rich. That tax hike was only a pacifier for his supporters. Obama and all his friends are the rich, yea Obama is gonna hurt himself. It was all smoke and mirrors, merely changing the way something looks and appears from the outside. One of Obama's perfect scams.
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kathyparsell

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Okay I will give up a little meat but keep your paws off vino.
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mimi57

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I agree Kathy...I've never been a big drinker, but , I am considering it. I may cut costs and make my own..Cheers!
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merci
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woodtick57

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Vino?!? what/ who said anything about raising the price of wine? that's just outrageous!
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kathyparsell

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@mimi57 with some moderation you help your heart and cut your risk of cancer. At least there is some evidence I take comfort from.
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@kathyparsell Si ma am !(:
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Yes the health care especially. I quit hiring until I see how much Obama care will cost.
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Well, since I don't purchase any type of pork or beef that are filled with all types of hormones and chemicals from the market, it probably won't effect me... My dad usually slaughters his own pork, so I benefit from that... Plus I plan on using about 5 acres of my parents land to plant our own vegetables the year!!! I

All of the of the others on your list, is what you get when you allow a rouge communist government to take over!!! Hope your happy!!!
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New bill in the works. Growing ones on food is counterproductive to political graff, Personal growing tax to take effect yesterday
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@marine1

I live in a small town, and we purchase and trade heirloom seeds each year from the locals. So please let them come and enforce it!!! With the type of locals that I live around, I doubt you'll ever hear or see of the idiot/s who try!!!
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Yep. There's nobody who it won't.

This is proof that the economy isn't getting better. Obama is pushing us into a permanent recession.
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William had to kill the turkey because he caught William choking the chicken.
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Damn!!! I thought I killed him before he had a chance to tell anyone.
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So this is what all the hope and change is about? And how is this economy supposed to be better?
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I will still eat about the same. I am retired and don't depend upon public transportation. My medical costs will have the highest impact on my budget. The premiums have gone up and I have to travel for much of my specialist care. What the CNN boys don't say is that ethynol producers use of corn has not gone down, so cattle and dairy farmers are forced to absorb the brunt of the corn shortage. So, like it or not, you will pay higher prices to eat. And, gas prices above $3/gallon are probably here to stay....unless we increase our domestic oil production or build the XL pipeline....and stop with the EPA bullshit.
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