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• Baby Boomers are ready for retirement, mostly

  Tue Apr 17, 2012
  • Why do retirement planners always talk in relation to past income. If someone is earning $500,000 a year that doesn't mean they require $400,000 a year when they retire.

• Are rich taxed less than secretaries?

  Tue Sep 20, 2011
  • There seems to be a popular argument among those against raising the capital gains tax that somehow they are entitled to lower taxes on that money because 1) they already paid taxes on the money they are investing and 2) they could lose money they invest.

• Are rich taxed less than secretaries?

  Tue Sep 20, 2011
  • I bump into that 35% bracket because I work for a living. I didn't inherit money to invest, I earn it and pay income taxes on it.

• Is President Obama engaging in 'class warfare'?

  Mon Sep 19, 2011
  • Many wealthy already pay less 'cause they don't earn wages. They invest, so they don't pay employment taxes, and pay low capital gains rate

• Gadhafi's fighters beat back assault on strongholds

  Fri Sep 16, 2011
  • Every instance where people argue that there are boots on the ground in Libya refers to the Marine Expeditionary forces that are actually offshore on a carrier, ready to rescue aviators when and if they go down in Libya, or elsewhere.

• Rogue trader loses $2 billion, UBS says

  Thu Sep 15, 2011
  • If his trading had earned the bank $2B would he have been a rogue trader, or a genius and given a promotion? Same conduct, different rewards.

• Do you think the Iraq war hurt U.S. reputation?

  Tue Aug 30, 2011
  • Cheney is a chicken hawk.  All this tough talk and macho swagger when he can send others off to do the fighting.  When he was called on to serve, he ran the other way! I bet you won't see that in his book.

• Here's who won't be paying federal income taxes this year

  Mon Aug 15, 2011
  • The tax rates are fairly equitable, but only if one excludes the loopholes, e.g. preferential rates for capital gains, that benefit the ric

• Is Congress coddling the super-rich, as Warren Buffett says?

  Mon Aug 15, 2011
  • 2% increase on income over $500K isn't too much to ask!

• Franken rails against S&P 'incompetence'

  Wed Aug 10, 2011
  • I have a great deal of respect for Sen. Franken's approach to his new job as a Senator. He has chosen to spurn much of the free publicity his previous fame could afford him, and earn the respect of his colleagues on both sides of the Senate by doing serious work. As a C.P.A.