I thought this a helpful article. Hope you do to. ============= By Laura Saunders Dec. 19, 2014 Roth accounts can be a great way to save for retirement—and it is getting easier to use them. Roths include both tax-sheltered individual retirement accounts and company-sponsored 401(k) savings plans, and, as with traditional versions of these accounts, assets grow tax-free. In many other important ways, though, Roths... Read more
Archive for the ‘Tax Issues’ Category
Birth of a Climate Mafia
July 2 | Posted by mrossol | Global Warming, Science, Tax Issues===== July 1, 2014 6:40 p.m. Holman Jenkins Can something good come from a U.S. splurge of climate pork that, in itself, would have no discernible effect on global climate or atmospheric carbon dioxide? A probable answer is no. It would actually end up making our putative carbon challenge worse. But Paul Krugman and others say a carbon tax is politically impossible,... Read more
Obama’s Corporate Exodus
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Tax IssuesTaxes don’t affect behavior, and the moon is made of blue cheese. ======== Updated June 18, 2014 12:26 a.m. ET What kind of country does this to itself? With Medtronic’s MDT -1.25% planned acquisition of Covidien COV -1.24% and the announcement that the combined company will be domiciled in Ireland, U.S. tax policy has encouraged one more business to spend its money overseas.... Read more
How Britain Returned to Growth
December 17 | Posted by mrossol | Big Govt, Debt, Economics, Tax IssuesWhat could a Brit know ??? ======= As the U.S. and Britain recover from the Great Recession, the question being asked of advanced economies like ours is this: Do we now face secular stagnation and long-term decline, so that it simply won’t be possible to promise the next generation better lives than our own? Having met with policy makers and business leaders in... Read more
A Crisis of the President’s Own Making
October 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Tax IssuesA week or so old, but good nonetheless. ======= For months now, the GOP has been held hostage by a faction of its party that deluded itself into believing President Obama might be rolled on his signature health-care law. Witness now an equally grand delusion on the Democratic side, one that President Obama nurtures at his peril. According to Democrats, their steadfast refusal... Read more
An Employment Primer
July 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Obama, Tax IssuesI like most of John Mauldin’s stuff. This one was interesting and disturbing enough to share. What think/say ye? ==== A Lost Generation By John Mauldin | Jul 27, 2013 It is pretty well established that a tax increase, especially an income tax increase, will have an immediate negative effect on the economy, with a multiplier of between 1 and 3 depending upon whose... Read more
