Breezewood's Highway Oasis or Urban Nightmare
Breezewood Pennsylvania sits beside a new highway, a secluded churchyard 50 yards from a Quality Inn. The town bills itself as a refuge for motorists, a bustling crossroads where neon, motels, fast food, and gas stations cluster at highway exits. Citizens debate whether this car-centered world is a new kind of community or a reckless oasis.
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CPI reform urged to include taxes and price improvements
The piece argues the CPI overstates living costs by omitting tax burdens and underappreciating gains from improved products like cars and computers. It cites Tax Freedom Day trends, 1995 tax share at 34.4 percent, and a 1996 total tax take around 2.329 trillion, noting broad fiscal pressures shaping consumer costs.
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Consumer debt behind rising household risk
The piece traces how easy credit from equity loans, stock margin, and credit cards fuels a background of rising household debt. It notes growing installment debt, credit card arrears, and bankruptcies as assets, wages, and stock markets climb in tandem, creating a fragile, illiquid consumer squeeze.
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