CBS News on the economy and grocery shopping

 This includes at least one video.

http://search.cbsnews.com/?source=cbs&q=saving+money+food

Lenona.

  lenona321@yahoo.com wrote:

The two biggest parts of anyones budget these days is housing
and transportation. It would make more sense to save lots of
money on those two first and have a little extra to spend on
food than the other way around.

Anthony

 

The biggest part of my and many other peoples budget is taxes. I'd love to
save money on taxes, but the federal, state, county and local governments
and the school board won't let me.

 

Yup. Me, too. My taxes go up every year and my income doesn't.

 

I already do live rural. Problem is that my town is in a county with a
failing large city. Our school and property taxes are hijacked to bail out
the larger entity. If our town was in the next county over, we'd be paying
about 60% of what we pay now. The town has tried to change counties 3 times,
and each time it was blocked by the city, because they need our town's
revenue. When I bought the place, we had fairly low taxes. I've spent nearly
25 years lovingly restoring this nearly 200 year old house, and I refuse to
give it up just because the politicians can't figure out how to budget.

Also, although our property/school taxes are some of the highest in the
nation (based on home values) the fact that I'm self-employed is what causes
my income tax to be so high. My business is the first to be hit when there's
a recession, since I don't sell a necessity. Orders have been mighty thin
lately. I made $5k less in 2007 than I did in 2006, yet I owed $1k more in
taxes with the same deductions. I still don't get that one. My accountant
says that it happened to a lot of his business clients last year. Make less,
pay more, seems to be the new American Way.