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\nBodega Restaurant
\nCarrie Cerino’s Ristorante & Party Center
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\nHouse of Blues Restaurant & Bar
\nTaste Restaurant

\nMIZU Japanese Sushi Restaurant
\nThe Cabin Restaurant @ Mario’s International Spa
\nLa Dolce Vita
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\nPROPERTY TAXES <\/strong>
\nSome property taxes went down this past year and some went up. Find out your new 2018 property tax rates in the northeast Ohio area on the following link: http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/datacentral\/index.ssf\/2018\/01\/compare_new_property_tax_rates_1.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are the highest 30 property tax rates per $100,000 valuation on a house:
\nSouth Euclid (Cleveland Hts.\/University Hts. schools) $4,306
\nCleveland (Shaker Hts. schools) $4,262
\nGarfield Hts. (Garfield Hts. schools) $4,224 Shaker Hts. (Shaker Hts. schools) $4,176
\nUniversity Hts. (Cleveland Hts.\/University Hts. schools) $4,111
\nCleveland Hts. (Cleveland Hts.\/University Hts. schools) $4,088
\nMaple Hts. (Maple Hts. schools) $3,787
\nEuclid (Euclid schools) $3,736
\nNewburgh Hts. (Cleveland schools) $3,471
\nHighland Hills (Warrensville Hts. schools) $3,453
\nSouth Euclid (South Euclid\/Lyndhurst schools) $3,443
\nGarfield Hts. (Cleveland schools) $3,361
\nRichmond Hts. (South Euclid\/Lyndhurst schools) $3,330
\nRichmond Hts. (Richmond Hts. schools) $3,273
\nLakewood (Lakewood schools) $3,225
\nLyndhurst (South Euclid\/Lyndhurst schools) $3,193
\nNorth Olmsted (North Olmsted schools) $3,115
\nOrange (Warrensville Hts. schools) $3,076
\nOlmsted Twp. (Olmsted Falls schools) $3,068
\nRussell Twp. (Chagrin Falls schools) $3,067
\nWarrensville Hts. (Warrensville Hts. schools) $3,064
\nEast Cleveland (East Cleveland schools) $3,053
\nCleveland Hts. (East Cleveland schools) $3,049
\nNorth Randall (Warrensville Hts. schools) $3,001
\nBay Village (Bay schools) $2,995
\nBeachwood (Warrensville Hts. schools) $2,984
\nFairview Park (Fairview Park schools) $2,962
\nBainbridge Twp. (Chagrin Falls schools) $2,958
\nBratenahl (Cleveland schools) $2,957
\nChagrin Falls (Chagrin Falls schools) $2,943 <\/p>\n

The following are the 30 lowest rates in the area per $100,000 valuation on a house:
\nDeerfield Twp. (West Branch schools) $1,239
\nWestfield Twp. (Norwayne schools) $1,334
\nClaridon Twp. (Berkshire schools) $1,359
\nHarrisville Twp. (Norwayne schools) $1,369
\nCharlestown Twp. (Garfield schools) $1,409
\nWestfield Twp\/Creston (Norwayne schools) $1,417
\nTallmadge (Field schools) $1,426
\nWestfield Center (Cloverleaf schools) $1,431
\nHuntsburg Twp. (Ledgemont schools) $1,439
\nMontville Twp. (Ledgemont schools) $1,443
\nTroy Twp. (Berkshire schools) $1,447
\nBurton Twp. (Berkshire schools) $1,459
\nKent (Field schools) $1,471
Medina (Cloverleaf schools) $1,487
\nMedina (Buckeye schools) $1,493
\nDeerfield Twp. (Waterloo schools) $1,495
\nLiverpool Twp. (Buckeye schools) $1,499
\nWestfield Twp. (Cloverleaf schools) $1,501
\nThompson Twp. (Ledgemont schools) $1,508
\nCreston (Norwayne schools) $1,509
\nSpencer Twp. (Black River schools) $1,516
\nBurton (Berkshire schools) $1,519
\nCharlestown Twp. (Southeast schools) $1,524
\nFreedom Twp. (Garfield schools) $1,525
\nGarrettsville (Garfield schools) $1,525
\nYork Twp. (Buckeye schools) $1,533
\nYork Twp. within Medina (Buckeye schools) $1,533
\nDeerfield Twp. (Southeast schools) $1,534
\nHarrisville Twp. (Cloverleaf schools) $1,536
\nRittman (Cloverleaf schools) $1,537 <\/p>\n


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\nREADING BEHIND THE NUMBERS <\/strong>
\nWal-Mart increased pay starting in 2015 and 2016, a $2.7 billion investment in workers. In 2015 they raised rates to at least $9 an hour. Then they hiked it more with workers hired before Feb 2016 getting $10 an hour. Recently, they announced an increase to $11 an hour plus bonuses up to $1,000 and new maternity and parental benefits spuured on by the new corporate tax cuts. That’s great news! Right? Well, sort of.<\/p>\n

Sadly, Wal-Mart also also announced around 1,000 layoffs along with the bonuses and pay raise. Wal-Mart also plans to eliminate about 3,500 store co-manager positions and add 1,700 assistant store managers, who earn slightly less. Sam’s Club, owned by Wal-Mart, announced they will be closing 63 of their stores, affecting 11,000 workers. How’s that for a kick in the pants. <\/p>\n

AT&T did the same when they announced a $1,000 bonus for their workers just as they announced layoffs of 600 employees. How can that be when they will be benefiting from the huge corporate tax cuts? That’s what makes this scary. Companies, even with a cash bonanza, still want to cut people. As some economists are saying, the benefits will mainly go to the stockholders since companies will use the cuts to buy back stock which will increase their stock price. That’s great for everyone since it will help folks that own stocks, right? Well, not really. About 80% of stock market wealth is held by the richest 10% of Americans. Just 21% of those with household incomes of $30K or less have money in the stock market. <\/p>\n

Some companies will also use the money to automate plants which will reduce jobs are workers are replaced with robots. Companies will still try to be lean and not hire more just because they got a tax cut too. That’s why trickle down economics doesn’t work. Trickle up economics works because money received by the poorest of the population will spend it all. More products will need to be produced, spurring the economy. <\/p>\n

Many other retailers have increased their minimum wage in recent years too, so it’s not all due to the new tax bill. Costco paid a starting wage of $11.50 an hour in 2013. They increased their minimum wage from $13 to $13.50 an hour in 2016. Their average hourly wage is just over $20. Costco’s stock has nearly quadrupled in the past nine years while Wal-Mart’s doubled during that time. A study by a MIT professor found that the average sales per employee at Costco was double those of Sam\u2019s Club employees. Wal-Mart saw how that higher pay improved Costco’s stock and now they are trying to do the same thing. Employees that are paid well are more productive workers!<\/p>\n

There are other reason for the increase in minimum pay. First, finding workers for low-paid jobs has gotten harder, so it’s partly due to supply and demand. The unemployment rate averaged 4.9% in 2016 and 4.4% in 2016 and the trend is going lower. As baby boomers, the largest generation, retire there will be less workers to employ which should increase wages. The labor participation rate has been on the low 60% range and decreasing over the years and is expected to go lower in the future (https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/emp\/ep_table_303.htm<\/a>) partly because of boomers retiring. So far wages have been stagnant nonetheless and with these indicators it’s been a surprise wages haven’t increased more.
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\nCompanies have so much more money after the tax cuts, so it only makes sense that they would give it back to the workers. Not quite. Companies are sitting on a mountain of cash, over $2 trillion of profits. In the past those monies were usually distributed to the employees in the form of a wage increase. With pressure to run companies efficiently many CEOs aren’t willing to cede any competitive advantage.<\/p>\n

For the past few years, corporate profits have been at record highs. Businesses could be using those profits to boost worker pay. And if labor markets continue to tighten, they might be forced to do so. Corporate profit margins were 11.5% in 2014 and around 6% in 1990 while the share of company income going to employees was 56.5% in 2014 while it was around 63% in 1990, so they trend may reverse.<\/p>\n

In some cases, the companies are sharing only a sliver of their tax-cut windfalls. Bank of America’s bonuses will cost it roughly $145 million \u2014 only about 4 percent of the $3.5 billion that Goldman Sachs estimates Bank of America will receive from the tax cut. KBW, an investment firm, estimates that Wells Fargo’s commitments to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour and to boost its charitable contributions will equal about 5 percent of the additional profits the tax cut will provide Wells, so it the minimal investment in workers isn’t eating much of the tax cut for some companies.<\/p>\n

If the tax cuts don’t find their way into capital investments and worker pay increases and better benefits it won’t have it’s full intended affect and the economy may suffer since the cut increased the deficit by around $1.5 trillion. The stock market has been doing great recently, however it did just as well, if not better, under the previous president. Click here for the graphs: http:\/\/www.macrotrends.net\/2482\/sp500-performance-by-president<\/a> and http:\/\/www.macrotrends.net\/2481\/stock-market-performance-by-president <\/a> <\/p>\n

Taking a step back, relatively few corporation pay the 35% tax rate, the rate before the new tax bill. After taking tax deductions, write-offs and other tax reducing options available to them the percentage paid in tax by corporations is much less. It’s called the effective tax rate. In essence, it’s like people that don’t pay full price in the store because they use coupons, sales, and rewards programs available to them. In 2017, the effective rate for U.S. corporations was around 20%. So that is even lower than the 21% rate in the new tax bill. The effective tax rate peaked around 1987 at around 45% and has dropped ever since then. It was in the mid-30s at the end of the 1970s.<\/p>\n

In Germany the effective tax rate charged to companies is 15%. One big difference with Germany – they pay their workers a premium, give tons of vacation (about a quarter of American workers don\u2019t have any vacation time), sick time (39% of all American workers or 41 million people didn\u2019t have paid sick leave in 2015), and parental time, and have great health benefits. So both the company and workers benefit. Happy workers make a happy company. The U.S. is the only industrialized country that doesn\u2019t have statutory requirements on employers to provide paid vacation, paid parental leave, or paid sick days.<\/p>\n

Another misnomer is that the poor don’t pay any, if much, in taxes. Yes, some pay 0% in income tax, however due to regressive taxes they pay more in some taxes than the rich. The bottom 20% of earners pay between 17.4% to 21.2% effective tax rate for all taxes (sales, excise, property, payroll, etc.) while the top 1% pay 25.2% to 29%. What that means is that the poor pay more in sales tax as a percentage of their income. For instance, if there is a 7% sales tax , it is the same percent whether you are rich or poor. so the amount paid as a percentage of income is higher for the poor than the rich. That’s why, to even things out, the rich pay a higher percentage in income tax, which is also called a progressive tax (the tax progressively gets higher as income increases). A progressive tax would, say, give a $10,000 tax break per person (progressive). Instead, it’s a percentage of what a person earns (regressive). The fact that the poor pay nearly the same as the rich in overall taxes is not good practice. <\/p>\n

Another key stat to watch is whether the median income increases. Not the average income, but the median income. Reason being, the median income shows the amount where half the household earns more and half earn less. The average income can get skewed. For instance, if someone earns $1 million and someone earns $10,000 the average income is $505,000. So the average income gets skewed when figuring in high incomes.<\/p>\n

Surveys by Bankrate and Careerbuilder have found that around three-quarters of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, which is one of the worst in developed countries. The percentage was 43% in 2007, 49% in 2008, and 61% in 2009. They also found 27% have no savings at all and 50% have a three month\u2019s worth of expenses. They also found in 2015 that 63% don\u2019t have enough to cover a $500 car repair or $1,000 medical or dental bill. <\/p>\n

Student debt is also another red flag. Student debt exceeded outstanding credit card debt for the first time since 2010. Student debt for those with a bachelor\u2019s degree in 2014 was $28,950. Student debt increased to $1.3 trillion in 2016. As of the end of 2016, there were 4.2 million Federal Direct Loan borrowers in default, meaning they\u2019ve not made a payment in more than 270 days. It\u2019s up from 3.6 million at the end of 2015.
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\nAround 83% of the benefits of the tax cuts goes to the wealthiest 1%. Yes, you read that correctly. The poor and middle class don’t want to wait for a trickle when a shower is needed. <\/p>\n

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\nStipe Miocic won the UFC heavyweight title for the fourth time, a record. Congrats! He is like a twin of mine. He’s graduated from my high school – Go Rangers! He is Croatian as am I. He grew up in the same town I did. A fellow Clevelander. He also goes to the same chiropractor where I’ve seen him there several times. I’m not sure if he punches as hard as I do, but it’s close enough I’m sure to consider us “twins”. <\/p>\n

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\nCLASS SCHEDULE<\/strong>
\nLearn how to save a ton of money at one of my classes! Learn how to consistently save 70% and more through couponing, sales, and rewards programs on groceries and toiletries. Find out new ways to save money on restaurants, utilities, cell\/smart phones, travel, gas, prescriptions, clothes, and much more! To view my upcoming class schedule please go to: http:\/\/www.joethecouponguy.com\/schedule\/index.htm <\/a>.<\/p>\n

At my Travel Affordably class learn how to get the best deals on car rentals, flights, cruises, lodging, and transportation. Find out how to save on entertainment and restaurants at your destination. You\u2019ll learn where to find bus trips to Chicago for $2 round-trip, Cruises for 80% off or more, free flights, the best places to economically travel, and travel saving secrets.
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\nBe sure to register for libraries that require registration as some have waiting lists. All classes are free unless otherwise noted. I hope to see you there!<\/p>\n

FEBRUARY<\/strong><\/em>
\nMonday, February 12, 2017 – Travel Affordably Class – Aurora Community Education – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm – Register at http:\/\/www.auroraoh.com\/468\/Community-Education<\/a> – $15 Fee<\/p>\n

Wednesday, February 14, 2017 – Savvy Shopper Class – Aurora Community Education – 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm – Register at http:\/\/www.auroraoh.com\/468\/Community-Education<\/a> – $15 Fee<\/p>\n

MARCH<\/strong><\/em>
\nWednesday, March 7, 2018 – Travel Affordably Class – Willoughby Library – 7:00 pm – FREE! – Register at http:\/\/welibrary.evanced.info\/signup\/EventDetails?EventId=12643&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2018\/03\/01<\/a> <\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 13, 2018 – Travel Affordably Class – Perry Library – 7:00 pm – FREE! – Register at http:\/\/oh.evanced.info\/perry\/lib\/eventsignup.asp?ID=6722<\/a> <\/p>\n

APRIL<\/strong><\/em>
\nSaturday, April 14, 2018 – Savvy Shopper Class – Lakewood Library – 7:00 pm – FREE!<\/p>\n

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 – Cable Options and Savings Class – Kent Library – 7:00 pm – FREE!<\/p>\n

AUGUST<\/strong><\/em>
\nMonday, August 20, 2018 – Travel Affordably Class – Burton Library – 6:30 pm – FREE!<\/p>\n

\nIf you\u2019re interested in booking a class for your organization whether it be a PTA, Senior Center, Business, Church, or Library, please contact me at joe@joethecouponguy.com or 440-227-6223. I’ve done classes all across Ohio and for many businesses including the Cleveland Clinic, Bendix, Lake Hospitals, Hyland Software, and others. I can tailor the topics to your organization.<\/p>\n

If you’d like for me to teach a class at your local library, feel free to contact your library and request me. Have them get a hold of me at joe@joethecouponguy.com to book me.<\/p>\n

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\nALDI<\/strong>
\nSale through Tuesday.
\nMangoes – .59
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