Just a rant here - Add to it as you see fit.

#1 - Overdraft fees. I personally haven't had one in many years - but that's the #1 way to steal money from those who have none. I heard something like over a billion dollars last year was collected by Bank of America, just in overdraft fees. That's literally collecting money from the poor haha.

#2 - Student Loans. You know these KIDS will be getting good jobs and income - so lets collect their interest to GOBS of money. I tell ya what, at 17 years old, I didn't know what taxes were in a paycheck - nor interest on loans. And I signed the dotted line for a good college, @ 25k per year, you're looking at 100k after 4 years. Now to pay off 100k in debt, you're looking around $160,000 total out-of-pocket expenses after interest and many many payments. Now, that's all before taxes - So if your taxes are roughly a third of your paycheck, you're looking at around $240k worth of salary. These poor kids are never getting out of debt. If you told these kids that 25k per year really meant 60,000 in salary... would they go to college? I WOULDN'T HAVE !! ! !!! Anyone wanna pay mine off? I'll give you all my boats haha.

#3 - Housing. Property taxes. Here in new-England it has gone sky-high. We're talking typically $8k-$10k per year for your standard home on a half-acre lot of land.

#4 - State taxes. You'll all have your own stories for these. Maybe not Florida, cuz they're pretty good about it. But Rhode Island, we pay property taxes on a value that the STATE says your vehicle is worth. So your 15 year old rusted out ****box may be worth $5,000 in the eyes of the state. So to keep it registered, you pay a premium property tax on it... EVERY YEAR.

Your turn . . .