>>>I got my letter from SS Admin. proudly declaring my 2.0% COLA increase in my SS payment. Bottom line - I was drawing $1995/month now with my great 2% raise ( more than in the last 10 years). With my "great" increase I'll now get $1999/month. What should I do with this extra $4 a month?
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>>Buy flowers for your wife.
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>What I don't like is that 2% should be about $40 not $4 and not only that but I have to pay 25% of 85% of the $4 in taxes so my net is $3.15. I'm not sure you could buy very many flowers or even 1 beer in HNL for $3,15.

Not going to get a beer in any airport for $3.15 -- if you go to a store and buy a single beer (which they let you do in Hawaii) you can get one that cheap in Hawaii though.