In response to “Q&A: 10 things you need to know about the PPACA ruling”
Our founders put our freedom into our own hands after they won long, hard battles against tyranny. Over the past several generations, our political elite has taken our freedom away gradually but steadily to increase their own power. Obamacare is the natural culmination of this assumption of power that our political elite have been allowed to take from us by those who benefit from their patronage, and who use our media to tell us how to think and act against our own best interests.
Justice Roberts read us the rules and tells us that our freedom is ours to take back, but only if we do it ourselves. He could not do this for us, and it was not his place to do so. If we want our political elite to take our money with the power that Congress has and tell us what to do with our lives, all we have to do is vote for such people. If we want our freedom back, we have to throw out those politicians who prefer their power over serving we the people in fairness, honesty, humility and justice. I am ready to take back my freedom. Are you?
–Sunforester
In response to “Advisors: Consider the split annuity/Roth conversion strategy”
Great! I see two commissions here, which is fine if that’s what it’s all about.
“Assuming a hypothetical growth rate of 7 percent…” If you don’t like that illustration, let’s assume a hypothetical growth rate of 8 percent, or maybe 10 percent. Don’t guess we’d want to use returns that fit within the actual caps of the index annuities available these days.
I love this: “Instead of crediting a company-declared interest rate of say 4 percent, 5 percent or 6 percent, the gains are linked or indexed directly to the performance of a leading market index.”