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Old 11-20-2008, 08:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Boomer View Post
2010?If that stays in place as an expiration date, will stocks get dumped in 2010 in order to capture a more favorable tax rate?
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The flaw in that thinking is that by 2010 (I don't need to wait that long) MANY of us will have paper losses and not gains. So unless you need the money and or the loss to offset something else then I don't see a big dump of stocks in 2010 due to expiration of the gains break.