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Mortgage Servicer: "Your monthly house payment is going up by $410 starting next month." You: "My fixed-rate mortgage is locked at 3.5%. How is my payment increasing?" Mortgage Servicer: "Your escrow account has a shortage due to rising property tax assessments and regional home insurance premiums." You: "So my actual home loan principal and interest didn't change?" Mortgage Servicer: "Correct. Your mortgage rate is fixed, but your mandatory escrow obligations are variable." You: "I paid off $18,000 in principal this year. Why is my monthly cost higher than when I bought the house?" Mortgage Servicer: "Because your local government reassessed your home's paper value and your insurer doubled your rate." Fixed-rate mortgages are a complete optical illusion. You don't just pay the bank for the house, you pay an ever-increasing local tax and private insurance subscription just to keep the keys.

No 501(c)(3) should get a penny from the government. We already “donate” to it by not taxing it. If it’s a “nonprofit” that gets government funding, then it’s just a government agency, exempt from the rules that government agencies have to follow.

Today’s ruling by the Maryland Supreme Court is a massive victory for the people of our state and a powerful defense of our democratic process. The final decision on how we draw our maps belongs in the hands of Marylanders.

“I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.” — Milton Friedman

🚨 STILL MISSING.

JUST IN: Truck carrying 40,000 pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer has been stolen in California, in what's believed to be the largest “beer heist” ever.

🚨 SOCIAL SECURITY: The retirement trust fund is now projected to run dry in late 2032. If Congress keeps doing nothing, payroll taxes would cover only 78% of promised benefits — an automatic 22% cut. Washington has known this was coming for decades. Before demanding another giant tax hike, maybe Congress should explain why it waited until millions of retirees were staring at a cliff.

From @FOXBaltimore - “Maryland workers will soon see a new deduction from their paychecks as the state prepares to launch its Family and Medical Leave Insurance program, known as FAMLI. (Passed way back in 2023 and delayed) beginning Jan. 1, 2027…For someone earning $75,000 a year, the employee contribution would amount to about $337.50 annually. State Sen. Justin Ready argues the additional payroll cost comes at the wrong time. ‘It’s going to really hurt people who are right on the edge economically and take money out of their paycheck every week for something that they might get a chance to avail themselves of at some point, but they’ll be paying all the time,” Ready said.” Full story below ->

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott’s administration is publicly escalating its accusations against Inspector General Isabel Cumming as it seeks to halt a court order requiring the city to turn over records to her office. bit.ly/4ya2XBD

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeonta… (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

"Men in government, therefore, should be those who aim at making government as unnecessary as possible. Contraction, not expansion, should be the aim." - Leonard E. Read