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ChesusRice

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He figures that since it was a gift, it's pure profit. He could have just sold the savings bond back for the $25, invested in gold and made 500% profit, but he figures that making $9 is a big deal, but then the fact that inflation ate up $13 of value completely escapes him.

When Cheezy is about 80 years old and destitute with a fat 401K that can purchase a roll of shit paper at most, then and only then will he see the light of day.
 

twostrokenut

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Hey cheesus....hard to read the small print on that graph....notice though how the spikes peak higher and higher?
 

Flaming Pie

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I coulda sworn this was originally a Republican Idea.

Oh...wait. A savings account for health care free of tax was the republican idea.
 

beenthere

New Member
I coulda sworn this was originally a Republican Idea.

Oh...wait. A savings account for health care free of tax was the republican idea.
Kind of.

The left went crazy when Reagan tried to pass a bill for Americans to privatize a small portion of their SS.
 

MuyLocoNC

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We had a shit load of silver we had purchased over time since 1994, we dumped it about three years ago and got about $39 oz.
Unfortunately, we're still hanging on to our gold.
I sold off about 50 lbs in 2011 to buy a new boat. Silver was going off about $46/oz at the time and the best part...TAX FREE. Most of it was bought around $5 an ounce or $4000, walked away with just under $37,000 and NO CAPITAL GAINS. Whaaaaat?

That was a great freaking summer.

I keep my gold. The silver is for playing around with, cheap and easy to accumulate. The gold stays in my safe, except when I take it out to fondle it, my precious.
 

ChesusRice

Well-Known Member
1957, but don't tell Cheezy, he still hasn't a clue what that graph he put up means.
You mean sans the S&P there wasnt a stock market until 1957?

The Dow Jones Industrial Average /ˌdaʊ ˈdʒoʊnz/, also called the Industrial Average, the Dow Jones, the Dow Jones Industrial, the Dow 30, or simply the Dow, is a stock market index, and one of several indices created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow. The industrial average was first calculated on May 26, 1896.[SUP][1][/SUP] Currently owned by S&P Dow Jones Indices, which is majority owned by McGraw-Hill Financial

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average
 

Balke Buds

Member
Retirement is basically a pipe dream.
Everyone thinks that a retirement is a right. Everyone thinks that just because you get old you DESERVE to not have to work anymore.

Hence social security....a failed social experiment that is based in emotion and good intentions...but economically disasterous from the very first person that drew from it until the very last will.

I have no doubt that I will need to work until the day I die and I do not see why everyone else cannot accept that reality as well.
Sure, we all do not want to...but the fact is that if you want to eat you have to work unless you were smart enough to ferret some resources away while you were younger...and the government does not take all away either through taxes or inflation causing policies.

The key to a happy life while young or old is to find work that you enjoy and can make money doing it...until you die.
 

UncleBuck

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Retirement is basically a pipe dream.
Everyone thinks that a retirement is a right. Everyone thinks that just because you get old you DESERVE to not have to work anymore.

Hence social security....a failed social experiment that is based in emotion and good intentions...but economically disasterous from the very first person that drew from it until the very last will.

I have no doubt that I will need to work until the day I die and I do not see why everyone else cannot accept that reality as well.
Sure, we all do not want to...but the fact is that if you want to eat you have to work unless you were smart enough to ferret some resources away while you were younger...and the government does not take all away either through taxes or inflation causing policies.

The key to a happy life while young or old is to find work that you enjoy and can make money doing it...until you die.
social security keeps millions upon millions of seniors out of poverty. what a failure!

the rest of your rant is just too pathetic to even respond to.
 

tokeprep

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I sold off about 50 lbs in 2011 to buy a new boat. Silver was going off about $46/oz at the time and the best part...TAX FREE. Most of it was bought around $5 an ounce or $4000, walked away with just under $37,000 and NO CAPITAL GAINS. Whaaaaat?

That was a great freaking summer.

I keep my gold. The silver is for playing around with, cheap and easy to accumulate. The gold stays in my safe, except when I take it out to fondle it, my precious.
You realize you owed capital gains taxes on that silver appreciation, right?
 

nitro harley

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social security keeps millions upon millions of seniors out of poverty. what a failure!

the rest of your rant is just too pathetic to even respond to.
Buck..

In one year and four months my wife will be 70 and she will be able to collect SS for the first time. The profits from our business kept her from drawing sooner, but after 70 it doesn't matter how much you make you can still draw at that time.. We have been waiting for a very long time for her to draw, but now we are close..Between the two of us we will receive over 3k per month so I wouldn't really call it a failure..I will look at it as the american dream come true...Good luck, and keep your chin up..
 

UncleBuck

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Buck..

In one year and four months my wife will be 70 and she will be able to collect SS for the first time. The profits from our business kept her from drawing sooner, but after 70 it doesn't matter how much you make you can still draw at that time.. We have been waiting for a very long time for her to draw, but now we are close..Between the two of us we will receive over 3k per month so I wouldn't really call it a failure..I will look at it as the american dream come true...Good luck, and keep your chin up..
same to you, with a hefty multiplier on those chins.
 

tokeprep

Well-Known Member
I was consuming some purple drank when I read this.....some of it came out my nose.
Appreciation on precious metals is subject to capital gains tax just as appreciation on any other capital asset is. If people don't pay the tax it just makes them tax evaders.
 

tokeprep

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The article I just read said the expected return on these accounts was 2% a year and that the maximum balance was $15,000. If true, that makes the accounts pretty useless.

As a general rule, no risk means no return. A risk free 2% return is lucky to beat inflation in a given year. Worthless. And $15,000, even adjusted for inflation, would probably last about one year in retirement. Worthless.
 

twostrokenut

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same to you, with a hefty multiplier on those chins.
Willful ignorance. Do you possess any skills?
Government philosophers union is full up, ain't hiring.

Ever cash in a 401k? There's a hefty penalty that you no doubt like very much.
Way I look at it even with the penalty....you get back way more than you actually put in.
Progressives win for the moment.
But if the cash out paid off a property, even a simple fee deed, there's an early retirement.

Grow shit, whittle wood....apple plinking.....
 
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