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Old 01-03-2019, 02:45 PM
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Every American should have a Roth IRA.
Not every American. The Roth IRA never made sense for me because my income was always too high to contribute. The only other way was to convert money from a traditional IRA to a Roth, but that would have resulted in paying taxes on the amount converted. By the way, you cannot convert RMD money to a Roth.

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