Tag: marginal tax brackets

Roth Accounts: The Most Underused, but Very Useful, Retirement Tool

During the 12/12/12 concert a few nights ago I was double-screening — with the big screen tuned to one of the many networks showing the event and the little screen tuned into my own little slice of the Twitterverse. It’s always interesting to see non-music folks commenting on music. One […]

Friedman’s Law of the First Thing, as Applied to Income Taxes: Marginal Tax Brackets

Friedman’s Law of the First thing says that, for each aspect of your financial life, you should know, at least, the first thing about it. Now, it might be that some of you should know, or might benefit handily from knowing, the second, third, fourth and even the x’th thing about […]

Tax Rates and the Fiscal Cliff (a/k/a the ALLEL-GBTD-HSS-2001)

We now return to our normally scheduled program . . . *  *  * The election of 2012 is over and at least day-and-a-half-after debriefed. My how things have changed. Looking back we see how:      Twelve years ago we, as a nation, made decisions which, when aggregated, were […]