The Bill Has Your Name On It - Premium Edition

You didn't get poorer by accident.

This is a 13-page data handbook that takes the big Washington numbers and puts them where they actually land - your paycheck, your grocery cart, your house, your retirement, your kids.

9 chapters, 9 worksheets, 9 charts. Every number is sourced to public government data (BLS, Treasury, Census, SSA Trustees). Plug in your own numbers and see your own bill.

WHAT'S INSIDE (all figures from the 2026 edition)

• A $40,000 salary in January 2000 has to be $78,944 today just to buy the same stuff.
• Aug 2025 to Aug 2026: average private-sector pay rose 3.1%. Prices rose 3.4%.
• A grocery cart that cost $100 in January 2000 costs $194 in August 2026.
• $10,000 of cash stuffed in a drawer in 2000 now buys about $5,067 worth of stuff.
• Your share of the national debt: $117,505 (as of Oct 8, 2026).
• Interest on the debt: about $3.5 billion per day.
• Payroll taxes take 15.3% before income tax even shows up.
• Under the Trustees' own report, the retirement trust fund pays about 78% of scheduled benefits once it runs dry in 2032.
• Worksheets to figure your break-even salary, your grocery gap and more.
• A closing chapter on what you can actually do about it.

Includes the full guide plus 4 bonus expert guides: Your Personal Tax Receipt, The Paycheck Playbook, Inflation-Proof Your Cash, The Hidden Tax Audit.