Retirees NOT forced to sell shares for IRS

Retirees may NOT be forced to sell shares for IRS

Congress passed the $2 Trillion bailout bill that may allow retirees to stop selling shares to fulfill the RMD requirements of their retirement accounts. While this measure and others would allow savers to keep more of their savings, waiving the RMD for 2020, the House bill would work in favor of those who don’t need to live off of their IRA or 401(k) retirement funds. This would benefit those who are not living off their retirement nest eggs at the present time. The RMD is calculated on the previous December account balances for all those over 70.5 years of age. We must pay taxes on the gains that have been cut drastically by the C-19 market sell off. To reach the amount specified by our RMD, we would need to sell more shares than we would have had to a month ago. Waiving the RMD requirement for 2020 would reduce the tax revenue this year. Taxes will need to be increased in coming years to pay for the additional $2 Trillion spent by Congress.  

Avoid the future taxes: https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Tax-Shelter-Avoid-taxes/dp/1985448300

My shares of stock and mutual funds are hanging on

I have increased my shares by NOT selling. The dividends I receive are adding more shares because the share price has fallen. Shares are on SALE. This is why Buffett is buying not selling. Buffett’s companies like Geico are still in business and collecting $ millions in premiums so he has $ billions to buy shares of Kroger, Delta, etc when the price is low for growing firms. Like Buffett I am buying stocks and shares of quality firms while they are on sale. They are on sale because of panic and the fact that some active mutual fund managers don’t want to end the quarter with a big loss. They will say they only lost 15% when the market index is down 25%. So they are selling at a loss which they can offset with some gains. I am not worried about my investment return number for the quarter. I am investing for future income and so when the price goes up, my shares will be worth more. And I will pay no taxes which will surely go up.

Buy shares on sale: https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Mutual-Funds-Save-taxes/dp/1534939490

GOP uses the virus to give their “friends and family” more of our tax dollars

Did they forget the last time: Big and reckless businesses got bailed out, with no one going to jail, while ordinary Americans lost their homes and jobs? The virus is just an excuse. Some on the right are calling it an act of God--the better to justify their support of massive government spending. One White House official said Trump “doesn’t give a [expletive]” about the plan’s impact on the federal debt. “It’s all about the markets and the economy for him. It’s all about the jobs numbers.” Re-election is the prime driver. The Senate Republican plan to send every household $1,200 for each adult and $500 for every child is an inefficient and ineffective way to stabilize the economy. It’s also a cynical ploy by Mob Boss Trump and the GOP to buy the next election. The better strategy is to get money into the hands of cash-strapped businesses that promise to use it to keep workers on their payrolls. A better effort would be to make sure states can pay all the laid off workers who will need the essentials. Unemployment insurance can’t cover the estimated 80 million workers out of a full-time job. The last time we had millions of unemployed we did something about it: we made work for them. We built buildings, schools, dams and bridges. Dams not coal make electricity.

Let’s avoid socialism for the rich: : https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Socialism-Rich-little-people-pay/dp/1535218584

It took 4 years for the stock market index to recover from 2008 lows

Depending on your portfolio profile, it will take time to recover from this stock market correction. If you use the stock market as your checking or savings account, you will suffer when you sell. If however, you are a long-term investor, just turn your head from the daily gyrations and BUY like Buffett. Last year the stock market gained 31%. The long-term average is still 11%. If you pay your advisor 2% you will have to wait a longer time. If you think of your money in terms of short- and long-term reserves, this correction has no impact on your ultimate goals. John Bogle, founder of Vanguard, said that you can control what you pay for advice not control the market. Giving away 2% of your long-term money will decrease your final accumulation by up to 63%. “Over a 50-year investing lifetime, that little 2 percent fee will erode 63 percent of what you would have had. As Bogle puts it, “the tyranny of compounding costs” is overwhelming.”

Let the ‘Bs’ guide you: https://www.amazon.com/Buffett-Bogle-Holy-Bible-Investment-advice/dp/1523693045

Who got rich from the last bailout?

Your tax dollars are going to make many rich people richer. During the last bailout crisis, even the foreign banks and profitable firms got money they did not need. None of them said no. This time Boeing, which killed a lot of people from bad management, got BILLIONS of our money. The whole leisure class industry wants $ BILLIONS including The Boss’s hotels, golf resorts, and global properties. Most of those crying for bailouts had large surpluses from huge profits during the last 12-year bull market. They spent it on themselves—buybacks, CEO bonuses, more jets, etc. Remember, many of these firms have paid no taxes for years. Like The Boss, they have used every trick in the book to avoid paying their fair share. An unbiased analysis of this situation would be that America is a socialist country for the rich. We pay subsidies to profitable firms and have been doing so for decades. Subsidies to the elites is what American is all about. Even our Reps use info illegally. Lobbyists tell our Reps what to subsidize in return for election money. Why are we still providing oil, coal and gas subsidies to profitable companies? Trump pays farm/oil/gas companies when the market price falls. He promises agribusiness price guarantees and support payments to keep that group voting for him. The national debt has surged from $20 trillion to $23 trillion since Trump started. He promised to pay it all off. Instead he has made our tax yoke heavier in the future.

Reduce your future tax burden: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Tax-Haven-Tax-FREE-Americans/dp/1482659441

File your taxes for free

TurboTax and other for-profit tax prep firms are due to raise prices soon. If you have your documents, use your favorite software now and file your tax now for refund. The payment, if any, can be in July; the filing should not. Rumors confirmed: filing delayed to July 15. Check your state for deadline. The federal and state filing can cost you nothing at https://apps.irs.gov/app/freeFile/. Another site has no cost or restrictions: https://www.creditkarma.com/tax. And remember you can usually reduce income and thus tax by making a deductible contribution to your IRA. File now for refund: 90 day interest-free extension if you owe. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-20-18.pdf

Filed already: refund status: https://sa.www4.irs.gov/irfof/lang/en/irfofgetstatus.jsp

Save for a long life: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Plan-Live-Age-100/dp/1548180793

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Like 1776, this period is a test of democracy—do we really want ‘low-IQ’ Mobster?

Mobster whining: "It cost me billions of dollars to be president”

Mob Boss: “I don’t take responsibility at all.”

Mobster: “I’ve always known this is a … pandemic.”

Mob Boss does not care what we learned from the last bailout.

Mobster on malaria drug: “So we’re going to pray from God that it does work.”

Mob Boss: We will give you “more than $1000 check, more later” (after my election)

Mob Boss: media wants to keep businesses closed “so I don’t win” in Nov.

How Govt wastes our money: Congress spends another 1.7 Trillion we don’t have! 

Lobbyists for big business leading Reps around for bailouts: Socialism for the rich

Trump sends medical supplies based on his politics (Nov 3) not medical need. Helps N Korea

Recurrence likely: Trump promises END restrictions in 15 days to get jobs/economy back.

Leisure industry the last to get help: Unemployed, hospitals, food chain, medical workers first

GOP bill “bad news”: “bailing out the biggest corporations.” GOP: stock “futures down 5%”

Doctors nurses plead for medical supplies equipment: 1 mask must last 5 days!

If we are at war, why is Trump taking money for his luxury businesses? Private Jets?

Same companies that binged on buybacks are in line to receive taxpayer-funded bailouts.

Lobbyist make sure their corp get the bailout. Coal co. stops black lung payments?

CEO get bonus for winning special bailout: US bans travel so no flights to use bailouts!

Trump will be “oversight” person: bailout biz friends: ‘fox guarding hen house’

TX using health emergency to force women to have kids they don’t want

TX 2^nd gov would rather seniors die than let Wall Street go down. He has ObamaCare!

Glenn Beck wants older Americans to die to save his show and Wall Street

Who gets our tax money: $2 Trillion is borrowed from our future children/others.

3.3 million file for unemployment comp: 1938 3 million built 10,000 bridges, roads etc

OH gets just $2.1 billion to fight pandemic: Boeing $17 billion to bailout bad managers

SCAMS/SPINS:

One man—John Roberts—a Supreme, will decide whether we have (no preexisting) health care!

4 anti-worker GOP Senators try to kill unemployment funds in the $2 Trillion subsidies law.

These 4 Senators only work 133 days; $174,000 guaranteed: unlimited sick; full health care.

Senators ignore warning: gym & pool use while virus spreads shows stupidity

Why did Congress take vacation at this time of crisis?

What happens if you can’t afford the $250 C-19 test? Retreat to the desert/mountains

Guns and ammo sales up 1,000% in some states: people are scared and may kill you in fear.

Census questionnaire and virus bailout checks are NOT linked: Fake Facebook posts.

Supremes: mental illness not allowed as defense anymore: no one can claim insanity.

Brazil gov tries Trump ‘back to work’ propaganda and it flops

Donald Hunter CT caught fraud promised returns from new Alzheimer drug

Corey Eastman Devon Ortiz Julia Montgomery caught ‘grandparent scam’ on dozens.

Hammed Akande MO caught romance scam $700,000 24 seniors

Todd H. Lahr PA caught running Ponzi promised mining real estate returns

Mychal Kendricks NFL caught insider trading on tips from banker jail time

SEC allows failing funds to borrow money from sources not usually allowed.

Megan Hess Shirley Koch CO caught selling body parts & fake $1,000 cremations.

Brokers prompting buyNhold investors in ETFs to sell out: buying oversold stocks.

Insurers retain huge premium bonus as few accidents near zero claims from C-19.

Alexa recording lawyer/client info as more work at home: We can’t delete later.

E-skimming is type of card fraud: hackers plant code in online store takes your cc inputs.

15 Coronavirus Online Scams to DECLINE

GoodRx posted a statement it planned to stop selling your personal medical information.

Some corona cleaners do work: some don’t: fake claims for cures: jimbakkershow silver

China & S Korea report no new cases: True or False?

President of the USA says everyone back to work by April 12 just to save re-election!

I got Trump’s C-19 postcard telling me to stay out of work at home and no contacts.

Treasury Secretary: 3 million record unemployment claims are “not relevant”: he has job!

Immigrant physicians enlisted by Pentagon for medical skills are stuck taking out trash !

Fauci, virus scientist, says “many more weeks” and has been sent away like other experts.

AZ man dies from cure Trump claimed might work: Trump cure is hydroxychloroquine

More die from TrumpCure chloroquine poisoning around the world

Trump’s friends get tested while those at risk go without test and told to go back to work.

Jobs

NY, IL, NJ State to shut like CA: non-essential workers stay home

Walmart to hire 150,000 for corona surge: bonuses for some. CVS hires 50,000: bonuses.

Which colleges actually are worth the cost: few produce income high enough for costs

Bailout state unemployment funds: filings hit 2.25 million this week: Boeing can wait

Grocery worker coughed on by George Falcone now charged with terrorism!

PA shopper coughs on grocery shelves so market had to discard food: terrorist?

Some store managers are NOT telling employees about those with C-19. So it spreads.

Work from home computer hygiene: keep hackers out of your life line.

Who owns your account now?

Insurers are looking to protect themselves as financial ground cracks: they buy more insurance

CA: Wells Fargo, US Bank, USB, Citi and JPM Chase defer mortgage payments for three months

Family earning over $150,000 does NOT receive bailout money: Rich get better bailouts

Miracle:

How our hands evolved from fish fin! Amazing thing creation!

When we are really alone: survival is being human

Lost sense of smell and taste are peculiar telltale signs of Covid-19: first symptom?

Don’t see sickness in CA: Shelter in place means hunkering down at beach/boardwalks.

Streets are empty: we can walk without dodging cars/SUVs: save gas/no pollution!

States are tracking cells to verify social distancing: Big Brother watches for good or evil?

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Don't miss these changes

Changes to retirement plan law require some re-thinking

The Secure Act raises the age for required minimum distributions to 72 beginning in 2020. It also removes the age limit for contributions to traditional IRAs beginning in 2020. This 2019 legislation does not affect the rules for 2019. If you’re at least 70½ in 2019, you must take a required minimum distribution. And you’re not allowed to make contributions to your traditional IRA for 2019 after age 70½. Put them into 2020 and beyond. You can add to IRA all your home health payments, grants, fellowship, stipends and awards. For those who don’t save: “IRA holders can use money in their account for child birth and adoption cost without penalty,” The bad news is that insurers can now sell annuities to employers so they won’t have any responsibility when your retirement income loses buying power.

Annuity alternatives: https://www.amazon.com/Not-Buy-That-Annuity-Guaranteed/dp/1466494573

How did your advisor do this year?

Over the years my clients have been serious long-term investors. They have taught me how they have become wealthy. Many are now in retirement and have picked funds that have ended up with fine returns. Most have been rewarded by using the buy and hold strategy over 10, 20 and 30 years. I have shared their experience and my own with others who consider me their ‘money coach.’ Most are DIY investors—they have jettisoned their advisors since learning the John Bogle and Warren Buffett investment lessons: costs detract from market index. Here are the results for 2019. They are total return investors—selling shares equally across all 10 funds for their monthly RMD income. Some want protection from a down market and so they overweight Wellesley Income instead of buying an annuity: Wellesley’s 9.7% a year not too bad to live on.

2019 Total Return Fund                    Long-term Return      Longevity

31.0% 500 Index                                             10.7% since 1976

11.9% Energy                                                    9.7% since 1984

28.0% Extended Market                                  10.7% since 1987

23.0% Health                                                   16.1% since 1984

30.4% International Growth                              10.5% since 1981

27.9% PRIMECAP                                         13.4% since 1984

27.5% Small Cap Index                                    10.7% since 1960

16.2% Wellesley Income                                    9.7% since 1970

30.0% Windsor                                                11.3% since 1958

28.6% Windsor II                                            10.7% since 1985

25.5% Average                                                11.3% *

            *Average Annual Returns as of 12/31/9.

10 Funds for all seasons: https://www.amazon.com/Vanguards-Top-Ten-mutual-funds/dp/150073909X

Govt will take your legacy if your heirs don’t withdraw and pay taxes in 10 years.

Under new law, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020, leaving our IRA to children or grandchildren will require your heirs or beneficiary to withdraw and pay taxes (perhaps higher rate) within 10 years not their lifetimes. Even the tax-FREE Roth account would be required to be eliminated as an estate planning tool since it must be cleaned out in 10 years. Thus, if you were planning to leave a lifelong legacy to your family members or others, you must rethink it. We all may be changing our IRA beneficiary designation to a trust which may require an attorney fee ‘legacy.’ Some of us must change our plan now while others may want to wait to see if another solution comes in 2021. We had planned to use the IRA and Roth IRA for the ‘stretch’ strategy: our beneficiary would be allowed to take annual income but allow the stocks/bonds to grow during the rest of our child’s lifetime—perhaps 40 years. Now it appears that the wealthy who already have a family trust will keep avoiding their fair share and we will have to subsidize the tax-avoiders. For example, the beneficiary of $1 million accounts could withdraw roughly $33,000 a year over 30 years under current rules; however, that changes to $100,000 a year under new rules. Clearly the middle class would be hit with higher taxes on the compressed withdrawal period. Trusts set up like Romney’s can help avoid taxes.

We subsidize their tax-advantages: https://www.amazon.com/Americas-Socialism-Rich-little-people/dp/1535218584

Save on taxes BEFORE Dec 31

1. Reduce reportable income by contributing $19,000 in a 401(k) plan this year or, if you’re age 50 or older, $25,000. Check with your HR. Traditional IRA deductions are still useful up to $6,000 ($7,000 for over 50) by April 15 2020. Double Deductions for Married Filing Jointly. 2. Pay forward charity or medical expenses to take the itemized over the standard ($12,000 $24,000 married). 3. Sell that dog of a stock you own. Admit you made a mistake and use the loss up to $3,000 against income. 4. If you had a bad year in business, pay forward any new expenses/supplies and take a bigger loss against other income. Verify with your accountant.

Use the Trump tax shelter: https://www.amazon.com/Trump-Tax-Shelter-Avoid-taxes/dp/1985448300/

Is the new rage ‘direct-indexing’ right for you?

Wall Street has tired of ETF and wants to market stocks with the ‘index’ label. What is it? It is a ‘buy and hold’ strategy of stocks they pick for you. Sounds like the old strategy because it is: an investor can own a personal index that owns however many stocks they want, optimized to track that index within a certain band of tolerance. “An investor can customize a portfolio to fit their beliefs, customize it to their personal employment situation (to avoid concentration) and tax loss harvest.” You can do this yourself but who has the time to research and track ‘many’ stocks. As one blogger said: “I see the next $1 billion, $10 billion, $100 billion financial advisor opportunity.” They can’t make any money on low-cost ETFs or mutual funds, so advisors are going back to ‘personal’ portfolio selection. But can an advisor really beat the IVV or 500 Index? Which advisor can produce over 30% this year and 11% a year over time? By the time you find out (trial and error) your earnings will be the average managed-account return of 3.79%.

Take Buffett’s advice: https://www.amazon.com/You-Beat-Wall-Street-professionals/dp/1986031373

Why does the stock market return 11% so consistently?

This year your portfolio cemented a love of indexing at over 30%. You did not have to buy and sell the stocks others recommended. You could just sit back and feel good. Turns out the market total return has provided 11% a year over a long time: Check the returns over time (1971-2018: 11.83%).  http://www.moneychimp.com/features/market_cagr.htm

DALBAR’s Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior (QAIB) shows those who try to beat the index earn just 3.79% over 30 years. In fact, during every period, advisor-managed accounts ALWAYS provided LESS than the index. For every period, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010 till today, we could have earned over 11%. Of course these returns do not subtract inflation but when we accumulate wealth, we don’t spend our portfolio so inflation is not taken into account.

$250/month compounded in the market (11%) over our working lives of 35 years equals $1.2 million. Advisor-managed compounding (3.79%) provides $220,000.

Cut advisor trading: https://www.amazon.com/DIY-Financial-Independence-Freedom-Workbook/dp/1088908500

New Year financial resolutions

Start a 529 college plan with tax savings and growth. Four state plans anyone can use have the highest ratings from funds analyst Morningstar. The top four plans, which earned gold ratings, were direct-to-investor plans issued by Illinois, Virginia, Utah and California. California’s plan was upgraded to gold from a silver rating by the analysts because it plans to adopt progressive glide paths in its age-based portfolios starting in 2020.

End paying for loans from your ‘cash value’ life insurance. If you have a policy with loans, you may be paying for something that is no longer providing a benefit to you or heirs. People are living longer and have other assets for a legacy. When you can’t keep up the loan payments (loan repayments compound) and annual premiums, it is time to ‘cut bait.’ You could reduce the death benefit or cash out (with huge tax bill: loan interest is NOT deductible). You may not need coverage anymore. Usually that need ends with grown children and working spouse. Former premiums can buy an emergency fund or pay all debts. Cash out in the year your income drops.

Alternatives: https://www.amazon.com/Longevity-Insurance-right-better-alternatives/dp/1482031434

How to block the MS new browser from your computer

Since many of us do not use the Microsoft browser—the one that comes with Win 10—we might not want MS to push another version of their ‘chromium’ Edge on us. It will come with a new update and you can follow these instructions to keep it out of your hair. https://lifehacker.com/how-to-keep-microsoft-from-installing-edge-chromium-o-1840481536

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Like 1776, this period is a test of democracy—do we really want ‘low-IQ’ Mobster?

Stock market: new highs on mobster indictment

Even evangelicals are having second thoughts

I could “shoot someone and I wouldn't lose voters”

Only 50% of Americans think Trump violated our democracy

Court Collusion: American Senate in “total coordination” with Trump

How Govt wastes our money: Congress spends another 1.7 Trillion we don’t have! 

GOP ex-gov KY pardons 400 including rapists on losing to DEM.

Trump has replaced 187 judges so far: GOP bias changes our lives for 60 years.

Making war in space: Trump starts new arms race: Darth Vader is back!

Trump to allow slaughterhouses to self-inspect: Just like Boeing: people die!

Trump allows foreign objects (steel, plastic, rubber) into speeded food processors.

GOP allows industry to ‘regulate’ itself: Boeing, GM kill us, kids shred their guts.

Toy manufacturers are killing our kids: Safety Commission under industry $ thumb.

SCAMS/SPINS:

NJ Dem converts: gives “undying support” to The Party Leader: Kool-Aid

House votes to repeal SALT cap but wealthy already found loophole.

Voter Suppression Key To GOP Battleground Efforts: Trump CREEP official

How GOP gets rid of DEM voters’ names from county records. Money talks.

GA GOP installs hack-able voting machines to secure GOP candidates

Trump will debate DEMs Putin-style: Moderators are in his control/employ

Trump will pardon ALL his co-conspirators: today it’s Stone

Germany didn’t call ‘concentration camps’ concentration camps either: ‘Detention’

Broker/advisor really doesn’t ‘watch your back’: new rule makes them tell the truth.

Keith Springer caught defrauding radio clients of $ millions retirement money.

Relative in trouble scam: works every time because they have family details we gave up.

WATCH out: GM cars without steering wheels: computer glitch run you down?

Your ‘handwritten’ card/letter is really a robo writer: can’t believe anything written now.

Great cars for under 10K. Worst resale values poor quality: Best deals on 2020 rides.

Who owns your account?

Average credit score: up to 682 but debt up too. Our spending keeps economy growing.

Esurance brand (Allstate) is over: rebrand Allstate online 2020.

Cigna Corp. life and disability to New York Life

NJ is now converting photo ID to ‘real’ ID with * so I can get on airplane: another fee!

Jobs

US Steel MI layoff 1,545:

New Form W-4 withholding amounts not allowances: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf

U.S. Bank’s 3,700 branches will cut teller coordinator & assistant branch manager jobs.

We stopped earning fair share of productivity gains 1979: Computer-based games begin

Miracle:

What global warming looks like for 2019: Fire and Ice and killing our old trees

House Passes Temporary Repeal of $10,000 SALT Deduction Limit

PA Roman Church pays $84 million to 564 victims of sexual abuse: some get free pass.

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