Showing posts with label Wills. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wills. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2016

Don's new tariffs cost us $6,000

Don’s new tariffs could cost each of us $6,000 a year
An independent analysis of Trump’s tariff proposal finds that it could cost the average U.S. household more than $6,000 per year, with much of the burden falling on households with the lowest incomes. “We find that a Trump tariff proposal against all countries would cost U.S. consumers $459 billion annually and $2.29 trillion over five years,” David Tuerck and Paul Bachman, a pair of economists at Suffolk University in Boston, write for the nonpartisan National Foundation for American Policy.
There are many ways for Trump to ‘tax’ the middle class. Tariff’s increase the price of everything working people (not wealthy) buy.


Which investment strategy provides the best retirement outcome?
“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.” Warren Buffett Mr Buffett's strategy of patience has proven to be the most astounding in history. He has earned 20.8% a year compounded over 50 years including recessions and wars. He does NOT trade or speculate. He holds companies for a long time. Buffett has proved the market is NOT efficient and stock-picking can work for a few.
Buffett is the genius who found a way to beat the market. The average investor earned just 3.79% while the stock market earned 11.06% over the last 30 years. DALBAR QAIB. You can become wealthy by choosing the best investment strategy in the 21st century: The Hub and Spoke Strategy. Use the best of both worlds: market index and Buffett's stock. There are almost as many “investing” strategies as people who work on Wall Street. There are institutional and retail investors who put up the money and take all the risks. And there are salespeople who take profits unfairly from the investors.
You have your choice but there are three considerations first: trust yourself or others, your futures will change, wealth-building takes time.

No retirement fund? $9 is all it takes
Almost 20% of Americans 65 and older are now working, according to the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That’s the most older people with a job since the early 1960s, before the U.S. enacted Medicare. This may explain why younger people have trouble finding work and why wages remain flat despite productivity increases. More employers are offering tax-FREE Roth 401ks yet only 10% participate in these retirement funds. As the overall economy improves, the growth of productivity is going to existing asset holders, not to those producing it. Since 1995, the average year-over-year inflation rate for energy has been 3.9%, for food, 2.6%; for shelter, 2.7%; and for medical care, 3.6%. Middle class expense increases leave no room for building assets.
Build your own tax-FREE pension fund of $250,000: http://www.amazon.com/$9-Day-Millionaire-Turn-day-into/dp/1484890310

GOP budget-cutters go after the poor again—GOP ‘heroes’ target defenseless
It is an easy group to target with no lobby and no defenders. GOP will cut food stamps again instead of supporting a wage hike that might reduce the need for this subsidy. GOP did not go after oil and gas socialists on subsidies, not the socialist supports that guarantee income to corporate farmers, not the socialist price guarantees to sugar and cotton and peanuts and soy and corn and etc. They did not cut the defense programs the pentagon says they don’t want or need. No, they cut food stamps. No wage offset, no retraining. Former manufacturing workers now on food stamps. Part time hiring up.
Always hit the people who don’t have lobbyists or big election gifts.

Making the world safe from BANKING
Congress and Obama have stopped fighting Wall Street during this contribution period called the 2016 elections. However, the problem of leveraged gambling without consequences still hangs over this planet. Closer than global warming as a threat, leaders of the world’s financial system have not taken the necessary steps to keep the world safe from BANKING, according to Mervyn King, former head of the Bank of England. “The financial system, King reveals, is still wired so that a handful of well-connected people capture the benefits from risk-taking while the entire society bears the cost.” Bankers and regulators use ‘complexity’ to defeat serious change. King’s solution: let investors who give the banks money to gamble take the hit when they lose. Keep deposits separate!


What does the NEW Republican Party stand for as of May 2016?
Limit rights of immigrants, non-Christians, Muslims, gays, Asians, protesters, press
House GOP votes to let contractors discriminate against certain people GOP dislikes
Tax breaks for wealthy; cut funding for un-wealthy, poor, seniors, underemployed, etc.
One-time 14% tax on wealthy to pay down national debt.
“I would build consensus, not use Executive Orders.”
“I'm not accepting any money from anybody, not beholden.” until now--Trump Fund
Increase debt and devalue debt and limit defense spending.
Cut regulation of all business activity except when GOP controls women clinics
Regulate all District Columbia activity/spending—end local control of DC budget
AL GOP reversed local control of Birmingham city paychecks
MI GOP reversed local control of Flint water against local experts
LA GOP reversed local control: wants strippers to be over 21 but under 28 and 160 lb.
Climate change is a hoax.
Trade pacts are no good for us and no good for our workers.
Abolish IRS, EPA, Education, Dodd-Frank financial protections
National right to buy and carry any firearms anywhere anytime by anyone age 2 and up.
Reinstate Christmas and Christian observance in schools, home, court, etc
Reinstate Christianity as the state religionbar all others from public office
Replace Obamacare with Health Savings Accounts (tax deduction not coverage).
Resist approving judges for courts (fewest in 50 years) so Dems not make policy
Install state Gov that cuts Medicaid, education, federal support payments, infrastructure.
Trump policy now and then: Unintended consequences is real threat!


Is an immediate annuity right for you?
When your advisor proposes buying an annuity to guarantee income for you in retirement, they may not mention certain facts that you should know. First, an annuity purchase is final – few can be reversed. Second, you will be receiving regular income from your IRA, pension, etc at age 70.5 due to the IRS mandate. Third, many annuities have higher fees and charges than similar income producing alternatives. Fourth, an immediate annuity starts paying you monthly income in return for your cash but is based on current low interest rates. When they go up, you are stuck with lower income.

Do you need a will like Prince forgot?
He did not leave one in plain sight so his “relatives” will spend $ millions for lawyers and courts to get some cash or what they “deserve.” Well if you have that problem, get thee to a lawyery. Or make your own for $55 at Nolo or as little as $35. If you only have a house, car, bank accounts etc in joint name you may not need one. Your IRAs and pensions have bene clauses so they don’t go to probate. Simple asset estates don’t need lawyers—you may pay your state tax yourself. Fed death tax begins at $5.45 million. I read library books to do mine. Avoiding probate doesn’t help with some states: everything is taxed—even retirement funds—unless it all goes to spouse.


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

Don:    In Trump We Trust: The New American Revolution,” due Aug 23. ‘God’ is gone!
            There will be another 9/11 if we don’t stop Syrians with ISIS phones now!
            Don will cut Medicare and SS benefits “if tax cuts don’t make big surpluses”
            Carson says Christie, Cruz, Kasich, Rubio and Palin for VP. Newt?
            “I will never hire a pollster” pollster hired this week but not admitted
            Talking to Kissinger, 92, 30-year-old-China-policy expert?
            In order to get donor money, I will not take $36 mil to pay myself back.
            I would like to see a White-versus-Black season of “The Apprentice." 

AKA John Miller: It wasn’t me who faked me--Only a narcissist would do that!       Anyway, I am only doing what the Founding Fathers did! Really?

Paul Ryan: “I’ll have my people call your people,” Don can pretend to change Congress.
            My cuts in food stamps make me a hero since poor have no lobbyist to offend
            Paying workers for overtime is “absolute disaster:” we pay too much already!

Hill: We all would like to pay 10% taxes like Don: show us how you do it!
            His Ossining golf course pays tax on $1.4 mil but he claims worth $50 mil.
            His yacht had no NJ sales tax and his Grand Central Hyatt had no profits?

Bern: Why do you pay 33% in taxes and Donny pays HALF or less.
            Here we go again—invading Lybia in name of ‘training’



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!

.Raymond James caught not watching for money laundering by clients
. Louis Martin Blazer III, Blazer Capital, used $2.35 mil from athletes by misleading
.MO lets anyone pack w/o permit/training and kill by claiming “threatened.”
. Francis J. Bass, Phila, caught tax fraud on medical settlements fraud

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


New rule lets business expense any item up to $2,500 – cuts taxes
Effective for 2016 and later, IRS upped the $500 de minimus threshold to $2,500. For small business, writing everything off which costs less than $2,500 is now great way to reduce profits. That’s right, $2,500 a pop. For example, for a food vendor, almost everything they buy, except the truck they use, will cost less than $2,500 so they write them off and pay less tax.

How our government wastes our money
.We pay extra $85 to avoid 3 hour lines at airport. Isn’t that what terrorist would do?
.We pay NFL teams when they honor servicepeople—and you thought they cared!

SCAMS
.MS schools ordered to desegregate after 62 years – unequal education benefits

Who owns your account now?
Time Warner Cable to Charter Communications

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Friday, October 9, 2015

Rich hide $7.6 TRILLION so we pay their tax

Economists explain how rich hide $7.6 TRILLION so we pay their taxes
Gabriel Zucman shows how wealthy maintain inequality—by hiding assets from public. Tax evasion costs us $200 billion a year and corporate havens another $130 billion a year. Governments are powerless because laws written for 1800 not appropriate. Wealth is mobile just like manufacturing—it goes anywhere and plays govs against govs. Offshore bankers don’t enforce bank laws—bankers work for the wealthy.

GOP tax plans don’t help us—tax cuts for wealthy don’t make jobs
Kansas cut taxes and jobs LEFT the state--failed to create jobs. Koch brothers used tax break to fund PACs to buy election officialsKansas raised sales tax on working people! Rich buy thru corporations. 10 tricks rich use to avoid taxes will NOT be changed by any candidate! Wealthy use tax cuts to increase income gap—hide money overseas.

GOP wastes $4.5 million on official House hearing
McCarthy says House committee helped to defeat Hillary. “Republicans have blatantly abused their authority in Congress by spending more than $4.5 million in taxpayer funds for a political campaign against Hillary Clinton.” Leader admits it’s B.S.

Banks spit in regulators/Congress face again—GOP ignores it
Congress finally investigating why banks ignore law and promises they make to regulators about breaking the banking laws. Shareholders eventually must pay the fines while offending employees usually keep their bonus and do not go to jail. They don’t even lose their licenses or job. Banks usually just hide questionable behavior. Dems are concerned that the same laws are broken over an over, as if banks knew they are “too big to jail.” Wall Street provides the 2nd highest lobbying funds for influence peddling. GOP does not support the probe.


“You work all your life giving them money, GONE!” End of American middle-class
Congress ends our pension guarantees - Trucker pensions cut 23%
Pensions for Central States’ 407,000 participants would be cut by an average of nearly TWENTY THREE 23 percent. But the pain would be distributed unevenly. Some participants, including the disabled, would not be subject to reductions. Older retirees would generally receive smaller cuts, while those who worked for defunct companies that did not keep pace with their pension funding obligations would face steeper reductions. Move your money NOW: http://www.amazon.com/Create-Your-Tax-FREE-Financial-System/dp/1466367466


Financial advisors say it is “misguided” to help clients with less than $1 million
We are on our own because experienced advisors can only work for people with at least $2 million, according to a survey by PriceMetrix. Advisors are told: “stop chasing minnows.” We don’t need advisors. Their fees can destroy our retirement fund. Their fees can take up to 63% of our potential money. There are experienced advisors working at low-cost mutual fund firms that can help those of us without $2 million. Pay less; earn more: http://www.amazon.com/The-Pimps-Wall-Street-middlemen/dp/151525254X

Is an Ethical Will right for you?
Ethical wills offer a way to be remembered and to positively influence the next generation according to some advisors. You can express your hope your spiritual and material values will help them become responsible and caring members of society. However, consider your audience! If you did not teach through your example, it is unlikely reading something in a will can change heir’s attitude. Some say: A “Love letter” to estranged siblings was enough to use the death as a “fresh” start. Others say you may be giving your heirs too much emotion all at once and trying to control their lives from the grave is almost impossible.

Does our president need to know scientific facts?  

POTUS candidates need to read Rev. Watt’s The Improvement of the Mind 1786 to learn to use precise language and be guided by observed facts.

GOP zealots to shut gov Dec 11? Women denied health screening? SS checks held?
            It cost US $24 billion last time, we lost high bond rating, it did NOT work!
Carson wants victims to attack expert shooters and; kinder teachers to outdraw AK47?
GOP denies climate change but we may pay to move Alaska town to avoid rising sea.
Kasich to play the Romney role in 2016—only adult?
Jeb desperate: asking W to destroy the world again! Better off with Saddam, Trump says
Christie: “Put me in the ring against Vladimir Putin … .” NJ citizens would! His judge             gives Christie a $4Billion pass on deal he made. “I’m not paying for past sins.”

Sanders is ineligible to be Prez because he has integrity.
Biden runs advert—2nd old-line politica/co with many bags. Where’s new blood?

GOP is wrong to cut regulation! We need regulation because ….
Blue Bell ice cream had listeria in 2010 and owners did not clean up until 3 died.
GM found it cheaper to kill 124 kids than fix ignition even after knowing for years.
Hudson City’s redlining practices illegally cut off housing chance for minorities.
Exxon’s own study showed mankind is raising global temp and created denial script.
Regulators NOT firm discover Scottrade database of 4.6 million customers hacked.
List is very long in every area of life and greedy can take life/death for some of us.

Which new midsize luxury sedan is the only one rated poor in crash tests?
This import is the only Midsize Luxury car to earn a Poor rating in the IIHS small overlap front test. There are EIGHT 2015 vehicles to give a 2nd thought according to IIHS. Check out your ride’s safety rating before you buy: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings
Use ALL your discounts when you re-shop for insurance: http://www.amazon.com/Vehicle-Insurance-Beware-Double-Coverage/dp/1480027634

What kind of parent leaves a loaded shotgun lying around?
An 11-year-old boy is charged with murder after he fatally shot his 8-year-old neighbor, police said, and neighbors say it was because the girl wouldn't let him see her dog.
Or taking 9-year-old shooting AK-47 for “family fun” and killing arcade owner?

Wall Street brokers had great year; Did YOU?
Wall Street broker-dealers posted profits of $11.3 billion in the first half of 2015, up 29 percent year-on-year and the strongest first half since 2011. Most of us are down 4%. Even popular hedge funds with adverts are down. Advisors are happy—are you?

Minister and wife leave $1 million to church
CA minister and his wife earned below average wages serving their community for over 30 years. During that time, they saved and invested like Earl Crawley while volunteering for many charities. Their estate was settled recently and their church pension fund received about $1 million in assets. They gave all their lives and they are giving still.

Lottery winner to share $140 M
"I’m going to take care of my kids," she said. "I don’t want them to work the way I had to work and deal with the things I had to deal with in life. I want to make it a good life for them and take care of them." Sadly, quick money usually ruins more lives than saves.

HOW CONGRESS WASTES OUR TAX DOLLARS
“We must guard against the militaryindustrial complex.” 1960, Pres Dwight Eisenhower.
Defense spending has DOUBLED in 14 years.
Since 2001, the base defense budget has soared from $287 billion to $530 billion — and             that's NOT counting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and ISIL and Ukraine ops. 
US knew US would fail in Vietnam in 1965;   1.3 million dead. Kissinger diary.

America needs to take care of American’s needs FIRST!
Rebuild America Act: a five-year plan would invest $1 trillion and create or maintain at least 13 million decent-paying jobs—Senate Budget Committee but GOP says no.
Will GOP use taxes to move Alaska town due to global warming they don’t accept?

We are still wasting $8 million per HOUR we don’t have in Iraq/Afghan/Ukraine.   Taliban captures Kunduz, a major Afghan city. Afghans run. KEEP 5,000 US troops?.

We bombed and killed our own Doctors without Borders hospital staff 10/2/15

We trained and equipped ISIS leadership—US sells arms to all sides for profit
We are supporting child abuse by Afghan leaders by giving them money.

Thousands US military serve in Germany and Japan….still. Why? WW2 is over!
Residents of Okinawa object to tens of thousands of U.S. troops and military sitting there.

SCAMS

DraftKing and FanDuel use insider info we don’t have to win $350,000. And it is not football skills! It is called “tilting the wheel.” NFL owners own the casinos.

Fake charity for SC flood relief?
IRS.gov has a search feature, Exempt Organizations Select Check, through which people may find legitimate, qualified charities; donations to these charities may be tax-deductible. Legitimate charities may also be found on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) website at fema.gov.

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