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I think I've figured out why I keep coming up short moneywise in spite of my careful budgeting. The fucking ISU payroll department keeps taking larger chunks of money out of my paychecks. I don't know what the fuck happened, but I went from being completely exempt from all taxes six months ago to being taxed to death now. When I did my initial budgeting earlier this summer, I was counting on checks of almost $500 every two weeks based on my hours, but with the new withholding setup ISU Payroll has for me, I pull in barely over $400 every two weeks. That's a loss of almost $200 every fucking month! That's a hell of a lot of money in my universe. I've got to talk to them about this, because I can't fucking afford to lose that much money this summer. I flat out REFUSE to struggle for the rest of the summer as badly as I am now. I have to pay off my credit card, too, but there's not going to be much left over for that if I need to use that money to buy the fucking bare essentials to get by.