- Messages
- 5,783
- Reactions
- 11,243
- Thread Starter
- #1,461
well you can always go watch the game and not boar yourself with this crap huh.Thread >2 years now...
...someday soon, I can feel it.
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
well you can always go watch the game and not boar yourself with this crap huh.Thread >2 years now...
...someday soon, I can feel it.
I am a few years away from RMDs, and I am moving $ from my IRA to my Roth IRA while I have a low income. I moved $13K that last year and only paid about 1% income tax on about $45K gross income because most of SS is not taxable at a certain income level. Then later, I can, if I have to, pull $ from my Roth without taxes - but I will only do that if I have to and my income is high.I have a year left before they force me to take a percentage out of my retirement. The taxes are 25% so it will reduce my income some.
Yes, SS covers my bills - just barely - usually.I have my bills down to a bare minimum but did buy a gun recently so that's one of my stuff happens moments.
I was reading where Nigel Farage had his bank accounts locked up in GB. He has been anti globalist and a leader in getting GB out of the EU. Guy is being made an example of. Point being that when the banks shut down it will be political as to who gets their money.I am a few years away from RMDs, and I am moving $ from my IRA to my Roth IRA while I have a low income. I moved $13K that last year and only paid about 1% income tax on about $45K gross income because most of SS is not taxable at a certain income level. Then later, I can, if I have to, pull $ from my Roth without taxes - but I will only do that if I have to and my income is high.
Where the gov is going to do me hard is when I sell my property and have to pay capital gains on part of the profit.
Yes, SS covers my bills - just barely - usually.
Buying guns is not a "stuff happens" event to me, and I have pretty much stopped doing that anyway - trying real hard to not fall of the wagon in that respect.
Stuff happens is when a roof needs to be replaced, or a car breaks, or a vet bill (and the pet dies anyway), or a fridge/freezer needs to be replaced, or a dr. bill, or something like unexpected like that (all of which have happened recently).
My mortgage lender pays my property taxes from an escrow account (accumulated from my mortgage payments) in October. My lender is not a bank.Oregon can take your property if you don't pay your taxes. With no bank account you can't pay your taxes.
I don't think it needs to be a trust to avoid taxes - inheritance taxes apply to a much higher $ amount than a sales tax when property is sold.I saw a YouTube video, so it must be factual, that you can put property into a living trust and when you pass and a relative wants to recieve it, there is no tax,
I'm not arguing, but it was more than just the owl debacle.Now I watch events closely because I got hit very hard when the government shut down the economy with the spotted owl.
It's hard for anyone who wasn't there to understand that when the timber industry was shut down it affected more than just the timber industry. A lot of us went from having plenty of work to not being able to buy a job.I'm not arguing, but it was more than just the owl debacle.
As I understand, the industry was already on its knees, with the deep recession of the '80s. First came forestry restrictions in the late '70s. Interest rates killing the housing industry had even greater effect. When the spotted owl was placed on the endangered list, that was the final nail for many mills with severe bans on significant lumber sources.
I was doing automation for mills in the '90s -- there were many that didn't embrace the technology, and didn't upgrade to accommodate solely smaller log sizes.
Automation also severely cut into logging labor. During a weekend camping out in the coastal range, I ate lunch as I watched two track hoes clear at least ten acres in under an hour. Pinch, cut, debark, buck and stack. It was remarkable. I checked back the next afternoon, and easily 100 acres had been clear cut and it appeared to have been already trucked out. It seems the industry has maintained fairly stable production levels since the late '90s, but they're nothing like the salad days of the earlier half of the 20th century.
I went through similar in the automotive industry. Out of dozens of plants that I did work at, only two remain that I know of.It's hard for anyone who wasn't there to understand that when the timber industry was shut down it affected more than just the timber industry. A lot of us went from having plenty of work to not being able to buy a job.
When the crap was getting started I was working construction on the remodel of the saw mill in Gardner Oregon. Worked for Hoffman construction as a foreman on an $88 million dollar rebuild of the green end.
Mill ended up running one log through it to get the tax write off, closed down and sold off all the equipment because they couldn't get logs.
It depends on the terrain. It took more than a week to make a road, then clear cut 8+ acres on my back acreage and clean it up (stack slash into piles). They had to use two or three fallers, a dozer, two different harvesters (mostly just to stack/load the logs) and several trucks. Most of the trees were too tall and large to use a harvester to fall them.Automation also severely cut into logging labor. During a weekend camping out in the coastal range, I ate lunch as I watched two track hoes clear at least ten acres in under an hour. Pinch, cut, debark, buck and stack. It was remarkable. I checked back the next afternoon, and easily 100 acres had been clear cut and it appeared to have been already trucked out. It seems the industry has maintained fairly stable production levels since the late '90s, but they're nothing like the salad days of the earlier half of the 20th century.
That's what she said....>2 years now...
...someday soon, I can feel it.
I guess some folks think the crash should happen the way they want it...Burger King complex.That's what she said....
That's what she said....
It feels like you missed the point.I guess some folks think the crash should happen the way they want it...Burger King complex.
For anyone that missed the referenceIt feels like you missed the point.
And exactly how is this "fellow in the know" able to accurately predict the future?Just what I read but there is a fellow in the know that says America won't last until the 2024 election.
You see a flashing red light, others see a beacon of confirmation bias in a sea of bothersome realitiesAnd exactly how is this "fellow in the know" able to accurately predict the future?
I put absolutely no validity in anybody making such a claim.
In fact, it is a clear indicator the individual should be viewed warily, it is a big flashing red light for me.
The net what it is today means it's real easy to Google and research about any big name like Col McGregor. Since you didn't research him yet ask me, a total stranger, then you must have a reason. It's OK because I have read enough and studied him enough that he needs no defense on what he says.And exactly how is this "fellow in the know" able to accurately predict the future?
I put absolutely no validity in anybody making such a claim.
In fact, it is a clear indicator the individual should be viewed warily, it is a big flashing red light for me.
Probably did miss your point, happens all the time when you get old.It feels like you missed the point.