Comments by "basspig" (@basspig) on "Uneducated Economist" channel.

  1. 2% eh? Our electricity rates increased 30% in July.
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  2. 55 years in the house I built myself (took me 40 years to build) and now facing tax foreclosure. There is no home ownership in America.
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  3. A sheet of 5/16 OSB is $48 at Home Depot today.
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  4. I have lived in the house that I built with my own hands 54 years ago at a cost of about $2,000. Today the property tax bills are close to $11,000 annually. I am on Social Security and cannot pay them. There is something very wrong in America. Meanwhile, I have a friend in Japan who lives in the house three times as large as mine on twice the acreage and pays about $300 a year in property tax. We are in the wrong country.
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  5. By next year, 30 million people will have frozen to death in America.
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  6.  @ZegaracRobert  There are nearly 50 million foreclosures working their way through the courts now, and evictions are in full swing now that the moratorium was lifted. It's going to be a cold winter, with the sun entering a maunder minimum as well. We can expect tens of millions to be living out in the elements, with no experience on how to survive.
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  7.  @bbmcmu  To a degree, but it prolonged the depression.
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  8. More like 2000%. Houses used to cost under 5 grand.
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  9. the government will tax all the land away.
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  10. Silver lining is that the new asshole neighbors that moved in across from me and who call the cops every time I listen to my stereo, have put their house on the market. The bad news is a parade of new york license plates coming to tour that house daily.
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  11. My only unpaid debt is property taxes.
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  12. I heard all that was a scam. Besides, you need money and knowledge to invest without being ripped off.
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  13. Convince them they won't get blood from a stone. They'll move on to more profitable victims.
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  14. We had WPA Works in the thirties. Its Socialism.
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  15. I used 3/4" pressure treated plywood for my exterior wall sheathing.
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  16. It cost my 989 dollars for a few 2x4s to build a solar panel array last month.
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  17. in Japan cash is still king.
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  18. I didn't pay the property taxes on my house this year. Instead, I bought a used pickup with plow and did some renovation to my house and used the remaining funds to do some landscaping and put up security fence. Had I paid the taxes this year, I could pay my electric bill much less do the rest. Something wrong with this country where the cost of local government is so high a burden on citizens.
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  19.  @OVERHERE-OVERHERE  Yes, they have to. Basically all essentials like food and fuel and electricity costs. TVs have gone down in price. Property taxes have shot way up.
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  20.  @frederickmuhlbauer9477  Nobody's driving, demand is down, so price is down. I remember we were able to by a $33K SUV for $13K that year, 100s of them on the lot, dealer desparate to sell.
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  21.  @frederickmuhlbauer9477  I was still paying over $3 a gallon up through January of this year.
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  22. His father was Irwin Schiff, author of THE BIGGEST CON. Irwin died in prison after the IRS railroaded him for writing his last book.
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  23.  @cherrygarciafan  The house is in legal limbo with the pending tax foreclosure, plus I built it without any permits over a forty year period, so it's uninsurable and un mortgage able.
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  24.  @cherrygarciafan  When I was evicted from my other home for an unexpected sewer assessment forcing that mortgage into foreclosure, I plunged the last of my money ($1850) into buying a 1/2 acre swamp lot. Slept in my car there for a couple of years as I started to build. Was living like a literal pioneer.
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  25.  @cherrygarciafan  I got a lot of my building materials for free. The windows were the most expensive part. Did the plumbing, wiring, heating over the next several years. Finally saved up enough to have a well drilled in 1973.
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  26.  @cherrygarciafan  Yup, since it was "non standard construction".
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  27.  @cherrygarciafan  Not brave, just aware that I must do or perish.
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  28. Some day I will go to Japan and seek refugee status.
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  29.  @RothBalloon  I don't believe that anyone ever got rich off of honest work. The rich either inherited it, stole it, or swindled others (or got the government to steal it by proxy).
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  30.  @RothBalloon  I'm going to hold out as long as I can. Maybe "defund the police" will take resources away from tax foreclosure evictions and I can remain in my house longer.
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