Cuts to the Senior discount coming?
RV Travel Magazine Looks like they want to cut the discount on upcharges to the camping fee. But the big problem is cutting the discount all together during peak season. Pay full charges all summe...
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Cloud Dancer wrote:
Lower-income people, retired or otherwise, will ALWAYS be able to afford LESS. Just imagine how expensive the essentials are for low-income people, compared to how cheap these same essentials are for high-income people. It's even more striking the older you get. I'm all for giving senior citizens a break.
If only it were that simple. Seniors and non seniors alike come in all economic brackets. There are retirees fortunate enough to receive defined pensions and/or have substantial sums tucked away in 401k retirement plans or IRAs. And there are seniors less fortunate who must scrape by on nothing but SSA payments. With most somewhere in the middle. Likewise there are younger people making little more than minimum wage and others with high level income jobs with little to worry about financially. And again, most somewhere in the middle.
Offering discounts to seniors simply because they are seniors and not offering the same to lower income people is, in a sense, a form of discrimination against that low income group.
I have no qualms about accepting senior discounts when available. And I ask if they are available when I can. But I consider it a privilege extended, not something that is owed me for living past 65.
