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Friday, October 27, 2017

Let's reform tax code by cutting corporate subsidies and hiding profits overseas


Better way to ‘reform’ tax code is eliminate corporate subsidies and tax shelters!
Cut the subsidies and tax tricks used by corporations and wealthy to pay less tax. GOP adds $1.5 trillion to the deficit, cuts $4 trillion in spending including nearly $500 billion in cuts to Medicare and $1 trillion to Medicaid. Don’t believe that an explosive economic growth, jobs and high wages will make up for it. KS tried tax cuts and nearly went bankrupt. Quality of life fell. People left towns. Bush tax cuts also made deficit grow. Many large profitable companies pay $0 tax: ATT, WellsFargo, Chase, Verizon, IBM, 258 more. Tax cut means nothingjobs created overseas where untaxed profits go! Trump mob do NOT have ‘wage’ income so they don’t pay income tax. All their properties are inside tax-advantaged entities and so deduct tax as business expense. Consider Trump lives at Trump Tower, a tax-advantaged entity. All his golf clubs are tax-advantaged firms. So eliminating deductions won’t bother his class. The estate tax does, so it is GONE. He reduced the tax on his class’s entities to 25% not 35%. Foreigners get more. Many middle class homeowners may have a tax increase if they cannot itemize deductions for state/local income tax, property tax and mortgage interest.

Buffett’s Simple Low-Cost Investing Beats Wall Street, Again
Warren Buffett has proved it, again. You do not need Wall Street 'professionals' to reach your financial goals. In fact, if you use them, you may give up 63% of your potential accumulations because of trading, charges, commissions and fees. Buffett made a bet with a hedge fund manager for $1 million 10 years ago. So far Buffett's strategy has earned over 7% a year versus 2.2% for Wall Street's best and brightest. Buffett has advocated a simple low-cost strategy for decades: Buy the stock market index in a fund like Vanguard's 500 Index. Invest in the market returns consistently and you will do better than everyone you know. Instead of $854,000 at $250 a month you end up with $220,000 because of Wall Street costs. Over the long term, your returns would average over 11% per year. DALBAR keeps track of returns and found that the average managed-account equity investor earned just 3.79% a year over 30 years ended 2014. The benchmark returned 11.06%.
Use the Buffett strategy and KEEP more of your money: https://www.amazon.com/Buffett-Strategy-854-000-not/dp/1978481020

Here is another reason to switch your advisor to Buffett
Advisors and brokers can have complaints about their work “expunged” from their public record so you don’t see them. You are NOT protected by the industry that exists to profit from investors. In fact the industry trade group, FINRA, does not keep a list of the firms that keep employing the brokers with the most complaints. However, SLCG shows you which firms have the highest ratio of brokers with complaints. Some firms keep 25% of their brokers with complaints. Most of us would like to know if our firm keeps employees that seem to have many problems. The industry trade group relies on firms for its fees so the information is here but without some “erased” data. Often those with a ‘rap’ sheet will move on. We do have the big picture. Some well-known firms are at the top of the list: Oppenheimer, Stifel, UBS, WellsFargo. Another measure is the pending complaints: UBS and MorganStanley have higher ratios. The most common complaints are excessive trading and illiquid securities. This study used BrokerCheck but it is not complete.


What is wrong with your advisor’s annuity?
Pitch: guaranteed income for the rest of your life, guaranteed base earning rate, you can participate in the market upside, no market downside, earnings grow without taxation, no annual contribution limits like 401k, tax-deferred savings, could keep paying spouse or heirs, even if your insurer quits you have state guarantee.
Insurers are pooling your money with others and can make big profits: your guaranteed income amount worth ½ after 20 years or stops on death, taxes due on each benefit check, guaranteed base rate is very low, market participation is limited, reduced benefits for multiple beneficiaries, state guarantee is small amount. Advisor’s highest pay sale!

GOP religionists create fear and anger—to power the dictator
Why is an evangelical pastor and Trump supporter saying Catholicism is a “cult-like pagan religion” and the success of the religion is due to “the genius of Satan”? This Southern Baptist pastor says that the Roman Catholic Church is the result of the Babylonian cult system founded by the Book of Revelation in a video. The ‘president of the United States’ is promoting this guy and his poison like the religionists did against John F Kennedy. The president vowed to represent all Americans. Why promote this hate of a religion as a satanic cult? How does that help ‘America Be Great Again’? It does not. It makes us small and weak. We are no longer the America respected in world.
Dictators love to divide society in order to control groups and hide their destructive power. Exclusion ideology of hate is NOT Christianity but idolatry of tribe.

Has TIAA the largest university pension system lost its fiduciary past?
Many university personnel trust this ‘non profit’ to give them unbiased advice. Now former staff members are claiming sales staff is being pushed to steer clients into higher fee products. A training update to wealth management advisers, provided to The Times from a current employee, came as the new fiduciary rule was being finalized. It told advisers “to avoid accidentally implying that you may be acting as a fiduciary,” when having educational conversations with clients. They should avoid “referencing the participant’s best interest” and “discussions regarding TIAA’s not-for-profit heritage.” But that trust is all that TIAA has. It is not the lowest cost and it is not the highest service fund firm. It seems to forget what its mission is: always from the client’s interest.
Along with many on Wall Street, TIAA argued against the fiduciary rule.
https://www.amazon.com/Fiduciary-Rule-BEST-dont-give-fees-anymore/dp/1530980275

Where is your long-term money?
New study claims residential housing is your best friend. Table 6 shows that the main reason risk-adjusted housing returns are higher is the lower volatility of house prices. Both rental yields and dividend income are relatively stable for all years and countries throughout the sample. However, the standard deviation of equity prices is double that of housing prices over the full sample, and around 2.5 times that of housing prices after 1950. Equity prices have experienced large swings and high-amplitude cycles throughout the course of modern history. Moreover, capital gains—the more volatile component—are responsible for a larger share of equity total returns than they are for housing. These two factors have become even more relevant during the post-WW2 decades. In the US, the difference in total return (gains + rent) is hardly noticeable: 11.13% vs 11.08. The big difference is the volatility in capital gains for equities (SD=8 vs 18). Costs matter!
Buy and hold both so you gain 11% in most markets: https://www.amazon.com/Vanguards-Top-Ten-mutual-funds/dp/150073909X

Do you need a safe car that is worth what you pay?
Cars should protect you in a crash. If they are made well, they should retain value if you ever need to trade them in. This list of 20 cars may be your starting point. Save 40% with used luxury cars that Consumer Reports tested. Avoid these 10 cars.  According to Consumer Reports, they are the worst—not safe, not fun, not comfy, not easy, not soothing, not quiet, not reliable, not worth price, not anything. Check reliability rating at JD Power: http://www.jdpower.com/cars/awards/Vehicle-Dependability-Study-%28VDS%29-by-Category/1882ENG






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TrumpWorld


Trump is still just a mafia contractor from Queens—Dad taught him to be The Don.


Smoking gun: “Our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it,” Sater wrote in an email to lawyer Cohen. “I will get all of Putins team to buy in on this.” Manafort tells Russian mob he will keep them informed about “our boy.”

Trump’s group places mob ties above country; it’s about money-POWER not US service.
Undisclosed $26 million loan from Russian to Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

Trump campaign asked Wiki to get Hillary emails from Putin hackers: smoking gun?

Putin using Twitter now with fake followers for Trump mob—how great impact?
Putin hired activists to stage demonstrations and promote divisive content. 


Ministry of Truth1984 novel: Government propaganda is ‘truth’ when they say it!
Trump’s middle-class tax cut is a tax give-back to the 1%: 67% of total for rich
Trump: “I totally changed our military, I totally changed the attitudes of the military and they have done a fantastic job," I,I,I.
"ISIS is now giving up, they are giving up, there are raising their hands,” Trump claims.
4 Green Berets killed by ISIS Oct 3 in ambush not expected and not supported.
Trump in July: I will give you $25,000. Check arrived 22 October. Deductible?
GOP lawmakers weighing “sharp reduction” to 401k tax-deferral—Trump “No change” ?


My Theory:
Trump got Russian help/funding for business from business/mob ties to Putin. US banks not interested in more bankruptcies. No one expected him to win so no harm getting Putin help. Don owes Vlad’s mob money so they sent mob gofer Manafort to run the campaign. ‘Colluding’ Putin style. Trump always has a fall guy to blame when caught in lie.


TrumpWorld – using presidency to make money the old fashioned way: theft

Weinstein firm propped up by Trump’s funder, Vulture Capitalist, Barrack
Trump ‘drawing’ sells for $16,000—beat last price of $100
Junior now getting $400,000 for GOP races from wealthy: tax cut pays for GOP.

Dictator talk time:
“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal,” Richard Nixon
Repetition of lies works for political propaganda just like selling soap. Most want ruler.
Trump puts atomic bombers on 24 alert—first since WWII for WWIII—end is near?
Trump won the war of minds in Senate: 2 critics quit instead of fighting for America!
 Putin’s Revenge how Putin from a low-ranking KGB agent to the long-serving president
NKorea has more guards on monuments to Kim family bec/ disgruntled/hungry citizenry.

The Don is moving us to a dictatorship where the only people who go to jail are his enemies and non whites he does not like. Racists and nationalists get pardons. If Flynn Page and Manafort get indicted by Mueller, The Don will just give them a “get out of jail free” card so they don’t rat him out.

NRA: The Don is victim of most "ruthless attack on a president.... in American history".

Gingrich: Trump compared to Andrew Jackson who also hated people of color.



The president can’t have a conflict of interest.” The Don is above the law?


Quid pro quo: "something for something."
Trump says he will pay lawyers for his mob but has failed to pay in the past.
GOP bans our right to sue banks and we must go to bankers’ arbitration: banks win.
Trump calls addiction national emergency but cuts funds to treat additions. Just BS.
GOP voter suppression by threats of jail: AL GOP may jail voters who voted.


           




Regulation is necessary: We need protection. Saves $12 billion of our money!
            (No one person can afford to sue a bank: class actions banned by GOP now.)

Bernard Parker, Indiana, PA caught selling fake tax liens repay $1.2 million from prison.
Trump ACA cuts mean don’t retire early: you may have to go ‘cold turkey’ on coverage.
GOP bans our right to sue banks: no more class-actions to catch WellsFargo crime.
Trump cancels reg for local office of TV/radio for community feedback. Centralize GOP propaganda.
OH gun toters not worry about NOT telling police about gun in car. Road Rage Bonus!




How Govt wastes our money:
300,000 US troops in 150 countries: Costs $700 Billion to be police the world. More.

SCAMS:
IRS tips to fight Ransomware that locks your data up—don’t pay since you won’t get it.
Avoid these car sales tricks: you must be aware of these tactics to protect yourself.

Jobs:
Yankees need new manager: Girardi fired

Who owns your account now?


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Friday, October 14, 2016

Another billionaire tells us how NOT to pay taxes

Another billionaire explains how to avoid paying taxes
Oil and natural gas billionaire T. Boone Pickens said Tuesday that he hasn't paid federal taxes in the past three years, as he's used a tax loophole similar to one believed used by Donald Trump. "Only a fool gives the government money it doesn't have to," said billionaire Leon Cooperman, who made his billions through Goldman Sachs. Last week, the SEC charged Cooperman with insider trading, saying the investor and hedge fund manager had used non-public information from a corporate executive about an energy deal in 2010. Our “reps” in Congress are giving billionaires these tax loopholes so they can use their bad business deals to deduct money they didn’t even put into the deals. Most of us can’t afford lawyers to create dummy business losses like billionaire business people do. Now they say they resent being vilified for taking tax breaks on their bad business decisions. They think they are heroes for making donations (Trump does not actually give his own money. He uses Ebers’ money.)
Don’t be a "fool"—pay ZERO tax on your gains: https://www.amazon.com/Tax-Shelter-Young-Americans/dp/1500426520


Use your Tax Credits to avoid income taxes like Trump
Most of us receive only 4% of federal tax breaks like food stamps and Earned Income Credit if you are poor or the property tax and mortgage credit if you are middle class.
The Tax-Credit class pays less income tax with capital gains and dividends because it is “unearned.” So if you actually work; you are taxed MORE. For instance, Warren Buffett pays 17% on earnings while we pay 33% total tax. The tax-credit class pays NOTHING on assets they got from a “rich uncle” and on their home when they sell. Most of us don’t “itemize” so we lose all kinds of tax credits. The Tax-Credit class takes off medical expenses, job hunting expenses, and work expenses not reimbursed by others, deferred compensation (bonus and stock portfolio worth more later), investment costs, investment losses, stuff they lose, stuff they own. They can eliminate income tax by listing losses from buildings, race horses, farms, oil, leasing and businesses they own as partners, LLCs, C and S corps. Trump actually deducted $916 million but most of it was other people’s money. Some bank debt was cancelled which normally is taxable but not after RE lobbyists got Congress to change rules in 1993. Trump is tax-FREE for 18 years.

We could easily pay for all Social Security benefits and Medicare coverage for all
Our reps decide to give The Tax-Credit Class special breaks we can’t use. By eliminating these entitlement programs for the 1 percent and multinational corporations America could afford SS benefits and health insurance for all. Here are 10 Congressional programs that create Socialism for the Rich and the amount we pay in taxes for them:
1. TAX BREAKS FOR OBSCENE CEO BONUSES ($7 BILLION/YEAR) They still get $ millions salary.
2. TAX CUTS FOR LUXURY CORPORATE JETS ($300 MILLION/YEAR) We pay for their rides.
3. BIG OIL SUBSIDIES ($37.5 BILLION/YEAR) We no longer import oil or need to find more oil here.
4. PHARMACEUTICAL SUBSIDIES ($270 BILLION/YEAR) GOP Bush II gave them price guarantee!
5. CAPITAL GAINS TAX BREAKS ($51 BILLION/YEAR) Rich pay 17%: we pay 33% total taxes.
6. CORPORATE TAX SUBSIDIES FROM STATE/LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ($80.4 BILLION/YEAR)
7. HANDOUTS TO BIG AG ($18 BILLION/YEAR) Family farmers were bought out long ago; now wind.
8. WELFARE FOR WALL STREET ($83 BILLION/YEAR) Fed guarantee interest rate makes big bigger.
9. EXPORT-IMPORT BANK SUBSIDIES ($112 BILLION) Boeing GE guaranteed profit on sales.
10. FEDERAL CONTRACTS FOR THE TOP 200 COMPANIES ($880 BILLION/YEAR) No risk biz.
Congress has made the tax laws that create America’s Socialism for the Rich. Congress people who want to cut SS benefits and Medicare are playing politics. America could afford to provide what we were promised but we don’t have lobbyists for a payoff.


Is a reverse mortgage right for you?
Financial sales people provide many positive details about this mortgage—a debt that you don’t pay back until you die—but it is a costly transaction all the same. Some observers say: A lot of clients still resist the idea of a debt. You lose the feeling of independence. A borrower answers to a bank system. Using a reverse mortgage to keep your investment portfolio may help you but as debt it must be managed. Your advisor is not doing you a favor if they don’t explain the debt load for years and the real costs. Remember, if you already paid off a mortgage of $250,000 over 30 years, you gave up a total of $539,595.47 plus the total set up cost of $5-10,000. Since mortgage interest is deductible, a HELOC may help now. It is cheaper and you are still in control.
Consider all your options for retirement income: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Retirement-Spending-Plan-enough/dp/1461084016

GOP will discard ballots with simple errors to support The Don
OH GOP officials are going to destroy ballots with no ZIP code or writing not in BLOCK lettering and other simple errors. An appeal was denied by a judge who is married to the GOP House Speaker William G. Batchelder. The period in which voters are allowed to fix the form was cut from 10 to 7 days, and elections workers were even barred from helping voters with the forms. Anything to suppress the Dem vote. Even Ryan’s home county considering Hill. NH GOP Sen. Kelly Ayotte says she is dropping her support for The Don. Carly Fiorina, Mike Crapo of Idaho, Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, Rep. Barbara Comstock, Martha Roby of Alabama say Donald Trump should step aside. Many states do not allow write-in candidates for president. Some GOP will go down with the ship. Others are burning up $45.8 million so far. Supremes decided to allow wealthy to decide vote. Only $7.1 million spent by the candidates themselves. OpenSecrets.org. In Nevada, labor unions and George Soros are up against Sheldon Adelson and gambling $.

Is investment portfolio “rebalancing” a smart strategy?
Wall Street advisors recommend this periodic selling and buying to keep your risk/reward balance of stocks and bonds where you want it to be during your accumulation period. However, tests over a long time period show that it may reduce your total accumulations. It may reduce your accumulation because you must pay for transactions and because you may miss a stock market’s boom. Rebalancing tends to reduce your portfolio’s volatility (a standard deviation of 14.4% with none versus 12% for the annually rebalanced portfolio). However if you have 15 or more years before retirement, your reward for a Buffett buy and hold strategy is 9% vs 8.5%. Over time, this means $613,805.95 vs $546,116.39 from 250 a month for 33 years of accumulations. If you use the dollar cost average strategy, you are already reducing volatility by buying fewer shares when they cost more and more when less. In retirement you will shift to lower risk and returns anyway to protect your gains.


Best 2016 Sedans under $25,000
Kia tops Accord and Camry on this list of 2016. Camry consistently holds its value after 3 years over many studies. Most will make it to 100,000 miles but are not the best deals for your money. JD Power dependability study asks owners after 3 years. Malibu and Sonata top rated. 

GOP religion excludes immigrants from marriage too
LA GOP religionists have effectively made it illegal for thousands of refugees to get married. Any foreign-born person wanting to get married in Louisiana must produce both an unexpired visa (even though a federal court has ruled that marriage licenses cannot be denied based on immigration status), as well as, somewhat inexplicably, a birth certificate. Many immigrants can’t produce birth certificates since none were ever issued where they were born. Indeed, many people born in LA have no certificate since they were born at home. Louisiana ‘Family’ Forum, which sponsored the law, claimed to be a voice for “traditional families” — a category that, in 2016, apparently no longer includes immigrants. Yet ‘traditional’ families married with no cert for thousands of years. America was built on toleration not exclusion. Let’s be tolerant of others.
GOP religionists fail Christian tenant: “I was a stranger, and you took me in” Matt 25:35

Is credit monitoring service $110 right for you?
The internet has made everyone concerned about ID theft and worse—scams that rob you of your sense of security. Many firms like LifeLock are profiting from these fears. Many firms charge over $110 a year to claim they protect you. Actually no firm can protect you (stop a thief from stealing your ID or bank account). Professionals with the help of their governments do crimes all day so if they can break into the government files they can easily take yours if they want it. Notification is key to limiting damage. CreditKarma.com and CreditSesame.com will watch one credit file for irregularities for FREE. You can  check your other files at https://www.annualcreditreport.com/requestReport/landingPage.action
Also go through every credit and bank statement you receive. We recently found bogus bank charges for Uber service we never used. Our bank reversed and gave new card.



Which liar will win American’s vote?
Neither can re-create jobs of the good old days!  I don’t see either one as President.
Do-Nothing Congress decides US future by doing nothing for more 4 years.
                                               
            I have not [grabbed P*y].” “His hands were everywhere.” 1 woman says. Now 5.
            “Certainly has been an interesting 24 hours!” Ryan, McConnell still OK with it
            “Lecherous and worthless” James MacDonald quits Don’s religious council
            Hill, “you’d be in jail” by my special prosecutor when I am elected.
            Arnold tells me “You’re fired.” He says can’t vote GOP bec/ he is American 1st.
            House GOP don’t understand why Ryan quits helping Don. Morally blind?
            Why do they trot out these 5 women with false claims?—I had only 4 for Bill.
            “I think it makes him a normal person,” son says of grabbing women’s p***y
            I am your savior, “taking the slings and arrows, gladly, for you
           
            Nixon refused to show tax returns too and Congress finally got $500,000.
            Warren Buffett says he does NOT deduct biz losses against income, as I claimed.


Billy Bush: I have a “tape of Trump being a real dog.” It’s ‘wolf.’ The Bushes Blush. 

Mike:   I don’t like Don’s comments but we can still take power to shut government
            “I forgave” Don for his actions but I can’t forgive Hill for her actions.
            Don does not seek my advice on policy on Syria. The Don is The Don.
            I can see him tweeting to world leaders all night about grabbing p**** in WH.
            “Don’t say that,” to supporter who plans to overthrow govnmt if Hill gets in.
           
            I told Wall Street they should fix their problems bec/ they know how and why.
            The Don says he will have his justice department come after me.
            But The Don said he has given up on the GOP—“unshackled me” to lose myself.

Buffett: I am under audit and have released my returns so The Don has political reason.

Tim:    Check the facts Mike: The Don is not really Prez material.
            Are the Russian hackers really working with The Don or just curry favor?

McConnell: “We’ll drop him like a hot rock,” Feb forecast of The Don nominee.
Ryan:   I just won’t appear with him to avoid being tainted by his ‘grabbing’ privates.
Bachmann: GOP House behind The Don—“masterful performance in the second debate."
Reaganites Opposing Trump. The god’s worshipers say The Don is no Ronald Reagan.

Trump “reminds me a lot of early Mussolini” Conservative legal scholar John Yoo said.
“The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing”
Every successful civilization has died from the inside not from attack.


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!

Number 1 killer: Kia Rio--149 Deaths Per Million Registered Vehicles: are you next?
Wells stole $2.6 mil and fined but Apollo stole $40.3 mil from your pension: no fine
Navy Federal Credit Union caught making threats debt collection to its service members
Comcast caught illegally billing customers for unwanted equipment and services
RBS bank barred from handling 401ks collusion and interest-rate manipulation.
Christie and Kelly talked about Bridge-gate before it happened, Kelly’s lawyer claims.
Wells Fargo mgr filed complaint about illegal fee creation scheme in 2011—ignored  

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



Police want gun control.
When everyone has guns; your chance of being killed goes up. Police don’t know who to shoot. They assume everyone has gun hidden. You and real criminals both have guns. Body cams make it harder to plant evidence and stage scene for TV crews.


SCAMS: America’s election process—no issue debate; name-calling sex TV soap

Ignoramus Award: US guilty of war crimes selling arm to Saudis to kill Yemen funeral?

How our government wastes our money
Tax breaks for corporations total over $1 TRILLION, enough fix roads, SS and Medicare

Where have all the jobs gone?
AI deep-learning replaces radiologist—computer quicker “more accurately” than Dr.
Wind turbine tech is the job projected to expand more than any other in 2014-2024.
Master’s Degree in Computer Science: $7,000 Georgia Tech Online
GM adds 650 jobs for more SUV in TN
Data engineering jobs at every company now—even small firms need IT today.

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