Friday, March 18, 2016

Last chance to cut taxes

Owe income tax?
There is one way to reduce your 2015 tax bill NOW that 2015 is over. You can deduct up to $5,500 ($6,500 age >50) per spouse on line 32 Form 1040. You must be under age 70½ at the end of the tax year in order to contribute to a traditional IRA. There is no age limit to contribute to a Roth IRA but you don’t get the deduction since all the gains are FREE. You must have taxable compensation—wages, salaries or self-employment. It also includes tips, commissions, bonuses and alimony. If you are married and file a joint tax return, only one spouse needs to have compensation in most cases. You may also qualify for the Saver’s Credit on line 51. It can reduce your taxes up to $2,000 if you file a joint return. You have until April 18 to reduce your bill. You can amend your return if you forgot to take deductions for teachers, student loan/tuition, early withdrawal, alimony, energy saver, and other taxes paid.
Refund? Create a tax-FREE retirement painlessly: http://www.amazon.com/Tax-Refund-Millionaires-Let-Uncle-Help/dp/149595644X

Protect your tax refund—use your Protection PIN
Save yourself the grief of fighting for your refund and your ID. It takes 9 months to resolve Identity Theft cases. Use a PIN on your return that thieves can’t submit on a fake return. Even if they have your Social, they don’t have your P PIN. Send in this Form 14039 to the IRS for your P PIN and use it on your return.  
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f14039.pdf. Anyone who has had their bank or store account hacked may be a victim so this PIN may be used each year. IRS will send you a new one each year. The IRS rejected or suspended the processing of 4.8 million suspicious returns last year.
Don’t be next.


Can Warren Buffett make you a millionaire?
Mr Buffett has made thousands of investors in his company Berkshire Hathaway millionaires and billionaires. His record over 50 years is unmatched by Wall Street because he does not trade securities nor time the market or do ANY of the things the “professionals” swear we should do to become wealthy. Ironically, Buffett does not charge an annual fee or a commission or an inactivity fee or a fee of any kind. In fact, Buffett tells us NOT to pay anybody to invest for you. He has provided us with all the information we need to become millionaires on our own for FREE. He does not sell anything. He doesn’t need the money—he has $72 billions already.


Did you sell when the market fell 11% this year?
If you did NOTHING, you are following the Investment Wisdom to Live Well By. If you sold on February 11 or 12, I’m sorry. Have you re-invested in the market or held cash? If you went to bonds, you may be down less than 1%. It is almost impossible to know when to buy and sell at the right times to take advantage of the volatility of the market. Hedge funds with “brilliant” salespeople have not had a great year although they have all been paid well. But if you are not a trader or hedge fund manager, you are trying to figure out what to do next.
Why not follow the investment wisdom of the ages with Buffett, Bogle and the Bible as your guide: http://www.amazon.com/Buffett-Bogle-Holy-Bible-Investment/dp/1523693045


GOP Religion wins in FL – no choice for women when clinics close
FL bill is similar to a Texas law requiring admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, which is now being challenged before the U.S. Supreme court. The measure goes to Gov for signature. Sen. Kelli Stargel, R-Lakeland, said her bill is not intended to outlaw abortion — which she admitted she would like to do, if the courts would allow it.
GOP uses regulations when it helps install GOP religious beliefs.
GOP wants NO regulation of global warming even if it kills us!
Even Forbes, the Capitalist Tool, is advocating action on warming, especially in low areas like FL and TX, despite Rubio, Cruz and Gov Scott and Abbott denials. You can’t stick your head in the sand anymore without drowning. 80% of FL and 70% of TX will be affected. Should you sell and move now? A new storm could reduce your equity even more if GOP does not even consider action now. Denial has no long-term benefits.
These are the people who run this country?

Did your broker tell you goodbye?
Most brokers and advisors are being told by their firm that they must drop clients with smaller balances. The reason is simple: profit. They claim that with the new regulation mandating that brokers offer you the best product for your situation (not just a satisfactory product with high commission), they can’t make money. For instance, the firm will not keep your account because a mutual fund that costs $0.05% per year that does the same thing as their fund that costs 2.2% is the best for you but is not profitable. They will only offer unique products like a “managed” account because it is profitable. A managed account is supposed to be designed just for you even though most are standardize portfolios by your age, risk tolerance and social class. The fiduciary rule will make investing less expensive and more rewarding for most investors. Some studies show that investors lose up to 63% of their possible accumulations to unnecessary fees and commissions. You will pay less and earn more.



Trump as President is logical outcome for GOP’s Tea Party revolt
The Teas have finally achieved their goals. After shutting the Federal government in 2013 and filling the House and Senate with “no compromise” representatives and turning back time in many state governments, the movement has created a new era in politics. America is reversing its trend to broader health care, environmental controls, social supports, better public schools, immigration, fewer military interventions, more reproductive choice, recognition of minorities, sexual expression, and religious freedom.
Where are the Teas taking us? Their goals are interpreted in different ways but the theme seems to be to go back to America in the 1950s or earlier when white Christian men created the most successful economy in history. Conservative white males made the rules for all of us to follow and the rules favored their class. They justified the system in the name of defense against the godless communists. They napalmed Vietnam to get rid of them. They created the military/industrial complex so America could arm the world profitably. Today the enemy is combo of terrorists, illegals, social support programs, non-Christians, gun controllers, regulation, voter ‘fraud’, big government, pro-choice laws, Social Security and Medicare expenses, liberal thoughts, and social toleration. A Milwaukee man is accused of killing his neighbors after finding out they didn’t speak English.
House GOP’s new budget will increase spending and cut SS and Medicare!!!

Does our President need to be smart and truthful? Do they even care about truth?

Trump: Individual allegiance (swear) to the Leader, not GOP, in FL rally =1935  
            “I think Islam hates us.” We can’t let people who hate us in. Muslims this time!
            “Just watch me build the Wall”—but they use tunnels these days 
            And sometimes submarines!   
            Trump food and mags are not his—“Sorry, that line is discontinued.”
            Glenn Beck compared Breitbart website to Hitler propagandist Goebbels.
            Threatens 3rd party and GOP failure if not GOP choice at convention
Christie: I love spending Other People’s (Taxpayers) Money on my flights and lunch.
Carson: “Even if Trump is bad for America, his reign only lasts 4 years” Needs surgery
           
Hill: VP rumors are Michelle Obama, Kerry, Bernie and Liz Warren?
Bernie: CA is next biggie

Regulators are the only protection we have since we can’t sue anymore
            “It is nearly impossible for one individual to take on a corporation with vast resources.” (GOP bill requires impossible: every person in class action suffer “same type and scope of injury”)
               Supremes stop us from suing—State courts no longer available to sue corporations!

 Credit Suisse has been accused of allowing money laundering by one client 
Student Loan Processing.US, James Krause, banned from in debt relief businesses
Royal Alliance Assoc, SagePoint Financial and FSC Securities overcharge you!
Top brokers with most advisors disciplined for misconduct—the bad apples list
20% Oppenheimer & Co. One in 5 brokers caught mistreating clients.
18% First Allied Securities, Inc.
15% Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network, LLC
15% UBS Financial Services
14% Cetera Advisors, LLC
14% Securities America, Inc.
14% National Planning Corporation
14% Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
13% Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Inc.
13% Janney Montgomery Scott, LLC
Tuna recalled before you get sick:  http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm491107.htm
Morgan Drexen caught charging illegal fees and deceiving consumers on debt relief. 

We need regulation—GOP wrong—companies/cities wouldn’t fix bad products on own

How did we get into debt to $19 TRILLION? Can we ever pay it off?
Each President has increased the public debt for different reasons. http://www.business insider.com/who-increased-the-debt-2012-9. Each party claimed it was doing what was best for the country. We got to $19 Trillion by spending more. Neither party will take us back to ZERO despite claims. No candidate, even GOP, is promising to reduce the debt. All want to increase debt because they all want to buy more military and more gov spending, cut taxes and pay the ever increasing interest on the debt. If other countries overspend too, does it make any difference in relations if we are all in debt to each other? If corporations change their tax address (on paper) to pay less tax and the wealthy move their assets to the lowest tax places, can any tax system built on individual accountability pay off its countries debt? … doubtful. Are the current tax territories (town, county, state, country) even relevant if those making the most money—corporations and top 3%--can fake a new tax addresses?


How our government wastes our money
EPA blamed for not stopping Gov Snyder from changing water supply of Flint but GOP             does not want EPA to regulate our water, air, food, etc. Nixon created for safety.

SCAMS
Someone claiming to be from the IRS calls and asks for money or to verify your identity? Hang up immediately. Contact TIGTA to report the call. Use their “IRS Impersonation Scam Reporting” web page. You can also call 800-366-4484. Report it to the Federal Trade Commission. Use the “FTC Complaint Assistant” on FTC.gov. Please add “IRS Telephone Scam” in the ‘notes.’ For more, visit “Tax Scams and Consumer Alerts” on IRS.gov.

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