Savings Corner

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Instead, they use a mortgage, which is a loan to buy a home. After making a down payment of anywhere from 3% to 25%, they get a mortgage to cover the remaining costs of purchasing the home. Each payment includes a combination of principal and interest, as well as property taxes, and, if needed, mortgage insurance.

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Family Balance Sheet

APRIL 11, 2020

The PA governor has shut down all non-essential businesses indefinitely and we’ve now been ordered to stay at home unless traveling to essential jobs, needed supplies, or outdoor exercise as long as we practice social distancing. Are you working from home? Are you going crazy confined to your home? So enough about me!

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Every few years in this country we go through a song and dance show to elect our leaders and representatives. From education to taxes to the deficit to foreign policy, the candidates tell us what we want to hear only to constantly change positions throughout their elected tenure. Without it, we have nothing. Foreign Policy.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Shortsighted as ever, many of our elected officials are ok with allowing oil companies to drill anywhere and everywhere – mainly because some of those profits end up in campaign coffers come election years. Continue (and increase) tax incentives for using renewable energy at home.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 8, 2011

Ever since coming home from my trip to Asia and seeing how poor some people really do live, charity has been on my mind more than ever. Tax Debt Help presents Savers Tax Credit: Get Rewarded for Retirement. Jim presents How to Calculate Your Full Effective Tax Rate. Are you getting the best interest gains you can?

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