Friday, July 8, 2022

Cutting recurring costs can save you a fortune

 

Can you take out 10% of your nest egg each year?

Some baby Boomers think their advisors would recommend this amount to be withdrawn each year in retirement. “Today’s low yields on bonds and high equity valuations mean ‘retirees are unlikely to receive returns that match those of the past,’ Morningstar says.” Fidelity said that over the timeframe of about one century, a 4.5% withdrawal rate would have lasted throughout a 30-year retirement in about 90% of the periods analyzed. Because that is an average, you must consider your specific situation before assuming you can spend 4.5% each year. Low earnings, inflation, your health and your family longevity must be factored into your best case scenario. If the bulk of your retirement funds are in qualified accounts (traditional IRA), your mutual fund or brokerage firm uses the IRS RMD worksheet to do the calculation for you. Their tables use an average withdrawal rate of less than 4% of your previous year’s combined total qualified funds amount each year. Thus, if your investments shrank, your RMD amount will be lower. You need to learn the factors that change your prudent annual spending amount. 

Learn more: https://www.amazon.com/What-your-RMD-much-spend/dp/1718946716

 

 

Help your child, grandchild get started on a $1 million fund

They will need a million dollars since inflation can reduce the buying power by 50% in just 20 years. Since common stocks have the best history of keeping ahead of inflation, a broad portfolio has the best chance of delivering steady returns. Since 1871 a basket of stocks (dividends reinvested) has provided 11% returns. Ordinary inflation is 3% not 8.6%, so right now stocks are cheap. If you show your family that an 11% long-term return can turn $250 a month into $1,000,000 in about 34 years, they will not be try to beat the market with fast trades through a $0 commission broker. Show them the math: $250 per month for 34 years costs $102,000 in contributions. They earn $898,000 in dividends and capital gains. If they use their special IRS tax-FREE account, they avoid about $225,000 in taxes when they take their money out to live on. Remind them that Warren Buffett bet a million dollars on a low-cost market index fund to beat 5 super stock pickers. Buffett recommends you use the Vanguard 500 Index Fund. Why? You can give up 63% of your returns when you use a broker. And if they trade to beat the market they may end up with the historical broker account average of 3.79% not 11% a year. That’s $208,865 instead of $1,021,768 after 34 years.

https://www.amazon.com/Give-your-child-leg-up-manage/dp/1096505355

 

Quickest ways to save $3,000 a year

The Federal Reserve's 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (released in 2020) found that the average, or mean, account was just over $255,000. The average cost of using an advisor or broker was 1.5% a year or $3,825. Since most financial sales people can NOT guarantee higher performance than the actual markets, most of us are better off leaving our money in a low-cost index account. Managed accounts earn only 3.79% vs 11% for an index account. For specific money management solutions, a one-time fee-only planner provides better advice since it is unbiased. Moving accounts is easier since a trustee to trustee transfer is usually free and not a taxable event. Another way to save $3,000 a year is canceling a loan to the US government. The average tax refund was $3,304. You will not incur a penalty if you owe less than $500 each year. So if you reduce your paycheck withholding by $250 a month, $125 a pay period, you will be able to increase your investment account by $250 a month. This creates $3,000 a year or about $200,000 extra in your investment account in 20 years.

https://www.amazon.com/New-American-Retirement-System-Reserve/dp/1461030072

 

Cutting recurring costs can save you a fortune

During this period of high inflation, it is important to note how much certain expenses really cost. Just as I noted above, saving $3,000 a year on your money management can really put huge amounts into your account. One reader was paying 2% of their nest egg each year for their advisor to check their statement quarterly. They moved their money to Vanguard and accumulated an extra $350,000 during their pre-retirement years. They were not only giving away 2% a year, they were losing the gains from that money. This “tyranny of compounding costs” applies to all of our recurring costs. We used to pay extra insurance premium for collision coverage on all our vehicles. We paid $ hundreds year after year until we realized our coverage would NOT pay enough to repair our older cars. This fact led us to take our policy apart so we paid only for the liability required by law. We did not need standard mileage, collision, comprehensive, gap, towing, temporary rental, health care, disability, accidental death, dismemberment, personal injury protection (PIP) and uninsured motorist coverage (UM). We then went through all expenses—cable, internet, life insurance, periodicals, etc to find more savings.

Save big: https://www.amazon.com/Get-What-You-Pay-financial/dp/1492384100

 

Another way the wealthy avoid taxes we can’t

One of the easiest ways the super rich can avoid taxes is by having the assets they donate to a tax exempt organization appraised for very very high amounts. Today Trump’s favorite property appraiser was asked to stop holding up the investigation by the New York Attorney General. Trump took a $21 million tax deductions on his tax returns by having his appraiser value the forest in front of his mansion in upstate New York so high: it’s impossible by law. Our Congress people let folks like themselves reduce their taxes by claiming a deduction for their $million gifts. They give art, land, houses that they have appraised at future or improbable values. Trump promised he would not develop the forest on his property in his retirement years. That development is not possible. This is one reason Trump is under investigation. His appraiser based the value of his property on the possibility that 24 mansions would be built and sold. Local officials have laws against such a venture. Rich people in the area don’t want the ‘low-life’ crowding the back roads and markets. So if the appraisal was faked, Trump will owe New York and USA millions of dollars. Trump’s lawyers may delay paying for years. He may end the IRS probe in 2024. Meanwhile, don’t pay the shortfall for the rich.

Use your tax-Free IRS account: https://www.amazon.com/Tax-FREE-Wealth-How-laws-free/dp/1475089236

 

 

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Like 1776, this period is a test of democracyWe rejected an "American fascist" once

 

 

The Path to Dictatorship: 2010-2030

 

Jan 21 2010 Corpor­a­tions’ election-spending unlim­ited

 

Nov 2020 Wealthy discredit election process

 

Nov 21 2020 Trump’s Plans for a Coup: criminal

 

Nov 21 2020: Trump plan: US Marshals seize voting machines

 

Jan 6 2021 Direct assault failed: guns & bombs ready

 

Trump engaged in a "criminal conspiracy" to stop Biden

 

I don’t f—ing care that they have weapons

 

Trump “detached from reality”

 

Trump used mafia intimidation on the defenseless

 

Trump: “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me” 

 

GOP fascism: “RINO hunt armed; no bagging limitJ6 comm threat

 

Trump’s Supremes END personal rights & state laws except for weapons WMDs

 

Fascism: GOP to stop women leaving state for abortion

 

It’s not a court. It’s a junta

 

 

Nov 8 2022 Trump’s “national revolution

 

 

 

How Govt wastes our money:

Christian Nationalism: evangelical ideology attacks our institutions/lifestyle/politics

Alito: abortion not in constitution: cites 1600 Hale who burned witch, favors marital rape

Feds threaten woman in her home for angry tweets attacking government

States control our personal freedoms: control guns, books, sex talk, vote, prayer, birth, etc

 

FL starts arresting educators for talking about sex preference issues: 1st Amendment end

GOP primary winners don’t question own elections but dispute Biden’s win: Fascism?

Most Americans, Across Party Lines, Say Government 'Corrupt, Rigged'

Rich buy votes to kill their taxes: IRS manipulated to ignore rich taxes: hurt poor & foes

 

GOP: show a birth certificate, passport, Fed ID, in order to vote even if already on rolls

 

EPA no authority to reduce emissions, global warming: only coal-baron Manchin can

Judge: drug pushers not responsible for opioid saturation WV: addict & doctor did it

309 mass shootings ½ 2022: gun laws not effective: all kids can buy WMD war gun

 

SCAMS/SPINS:

“Slavery” in TX: “involuntary relocation”: Texas tries to ‘brainwash’ children on history

Who Will Care for unwanted Babies? Supremes no; evangelical Christians no; TX no ?

TX uses 1925 law to make women have kids: no choice with doctor: jail likely

 

White nationalist group march along Boston’s Freedom Trail : fascists use Old Glory

Independence Day massacre: impossible for good guy to stop 80 rounds in a minute

 

Brave staff assistant already been threatened: is John McClane available?

IRS used as weapon by Trump: FBI heads targeted for deep audits: no fraud

Trump’s Supremes target liberal agenda since 1960s: reverse precedence; upend customs

Tucker, race “replacement” mouth, says not racist: gives fascist insider info

 

JPMorganChase traders caught ‘spoofing’ racketeering/conspiracy manipulate markets

Joshua D Nicholas caught crypto scam conspiracy securities fraud.

Robert Louis Cirillo CA caught steal $3 million promised high construction loan returns

Megan Hess funeral home owner caught selling body parts: victim’s family in dark

Insurers & advisors pressing Congress to make it easier to tap retirement funds at work.

IRS cracking down on charitable remainder annuity trust (CRAT) abuse.

IRS warns: Companies who promise to eliminate tax debt may sell you out

 

 

CVS takes “opportunities to hold off generic (drug) competition.” Seniors pay more.

Zelle caught deceptively marketing: big fraud problem: no reimbursement

Buy Now, Pay Later plans caught misleading loan terms: long-term burden

 

Jobs

Jobs disappearing: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/fastest-declining-occupations.htm

Half of millennials would quit if asked to return to the office full-time

Mass murderer passed checks AR 15, ‘quiet kid’: bring back draft; give kids a real life

 

Brown shirts: Abortion police to track down all the doctors, law breakers and taxis, etc

 

Who owns your account now?

Internet coming to trains, ships, and other vehicles using SpaceX's satellite internet

Benefits for seniors that are not advertised: https://benefitscheckup.org/

New car buying questions guide search for best deal: Feds push national sales standards

 

Cars have been made too distracting: highway deaths up

Park short-term money in short-term bond fund: 2.4% SEC yield

 

Miracles:

Cancer victim now cured after new drug: life after death sentence

Transforming windows into active power generators has just edged one step closer

Sand battery' can store energy for months: sun don’t shine at night

 

July 6, 1957, John Lennon met Paul McCartney at a church social: God loves music

Quantum computer completes 9,000 Years of Work in 36 Microseconds

 

100 people have died in extreme flooding in Bangladesh: France Portugal on fire

Warming: 50,000 people in Sydney told to evacuate their homes: climate shift

 

600 monkeypox cases confirmed in the United States: UK, Germany lead

 

Vatican shakeup: Pope names 2 women to Bishop Committee: espresso gophers?

 

 

Why Vets waited 55 years for honor by US? Must be incontestable proof! Ask Biden

WH reply: “We take careful note of the suggestions, thoughts, questions, and stories”

 

 

 

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Everything in universe: galaxies to stones made of subatomic energy ‘vibrations’

Light is both a particle and a wave depending on how we look at the light.

A subatomic ‘particle’ is the smallest possible vibration (quantum) of a quantum field.

Mass–energy equivalence: E=mc^2.  At the smallest level; Everything is moving!

Inside protons, neutrons, it is the fields of the virtual particles that creates its mass.

“Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can’t even measure them.” Space expanding.

 

We can apply for Medicare online: https://blog.ssa.gov/apply-for-medicare-online

We can apply for Social Security online: https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/

We can apply for health care online: https://www.healthcare.gov/

 

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