Bring Back the '50s

What would happen if no one paid their taxes? Or their monthly health care premiums? Gee, maybe we'd have enough money left over for food and an occasional movie. Remember when you could buy a candy bar for a nickel? Imagine that! I think we should bring back the '50s.

Property and school tax didn't go into effect until 1950. Now we are taxed right out of our homes. I never had to pay for health care. Now part of my monthly income goes to the health care industry. What happened to the '50s?

I decided to go back in time, which many of us aging boomers do, and pull up some '50s figures.

This is what I found:

bag of horse pucky: free

candy bar: $.o5

average house: $14,500

income: $3,216

Ford car: $1339-$2262

Philco model 1403 TV: $199

12" records: $4.85 10" records: $2.85 (Remember those?)

Milk: $.82

Gas: $.20

Bread $.14

Postage stamp: $.03

Pumpkins : $.02 cents a lb

Campbell’s Pork & Beans - (2) 1 lb. cans: $.25

Sirloin steak: $.77 lb

Kraft Mayonnaise - quart jar: $.62

I think it's interesting that milk costs more than gas. Read it and weep.