The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for March 07, 2020

The great American dream.

Yeah, like the cost of a new roof for one.

I’ll bet your pension didn’t go up in proportion. I know mine hasn’t.

my gas and electric bill is more then my first mortgage payments!

When I bought my first house, my neighbor, who bought into the development when it was new, had an $85/mo mortgage. When I left, he was paying around $400/mo in taxes. I bet if I had gone back in time and told him that’s how it would be he’d have laughed long and hard.

My fear is the increasing taxes. gubmit is outa control. Everything is taxed!

I’m 65 years old, and I’m still looking forward to paying off my mortgage. Still have about 10 years to go.

He also never thought he’d live as long as he has. The universe seems to have a sense of humor.

Greed by insurance companies.

Oh, and I always read this guy’s name as “Uncleted”.

When a bank offers to lower your mortgage rate, they increase the balance by thousands, and go through weeks of paperwork, when it would be perfectly legal to just make single sheet of paper, signed by both parties, to change the interest rate.

Our electric-water-sewer bill in our small town now has $50 of charges before you even use a Kilowatt of electricity or gallon of water. This is due to the new water treatment plant they built, called debt payments on the bonds they sold.

My long ago ex in laws mortgage was like $35/month. Of course, they did the whole 30 yr bit.

He must live in a high tax state