Just following the tax rules set by our congress. Change the tax laws just as he has said for a long time.

The problem is for a fairly small amount of money you can buy a congressman who will bury something in exchange that will allow a huge tax saving.

Bought mine at ....?!&@$^*

OMG! What dummies.. both of us.
🤨😬🤐😵😵*💫😡🤬

Pulling my pension early I’ve decided.

If you did not see this coming with the tariffs then you should not be in the stock market. This was done deliberately to push people from equities into treasuries to lower the yield. Many trillions of dollars of debt refinancing is coming due. It is all about the bond market...They don't care about the stock market.

For most of us this is not our first rodeo. I bought common stock shares while in high school and have since then owned some although stocks had until 2022 - 2023 not been a significant portion of my net worth. I have to admit I enjoyed the ride from 2022 -2023 until the reciprocal tariffs were initiated.

As I see it the market is still priced at about double its inherent value so I am sticking with what I know and continuing to hold income producing real estate assets as the majority of my investment portfolio.

And who makes those laws? Lawyers. Not going happen.

IMO Funny thing all you stock holders had to do was sell when it was high. like the billionaire’s selling millions of shares when high on threat, rumor, or quart of oil split somewhere. Then market takes dump. Then they buy back at lower rate. This has repeated every few months/years since they figured out they can manipulate the market in their favor. It’s win win for them. it don’t take much hearsay to trigger it cause the greed and manipulation kicks in.

14% drop
 

Dow was hit at about a 14% decline off its high. Time to stop those withdrawals and chill for a bit. The market will go back up eventually.

You can get a discount when purchasing 3.

And this was before the 2nd bad day 4/4. My very conservative stock broker
plainly stated that this drop had nothing to do with the market.

Hope so, but doubt it

If only that was true...

Many people think that most rich people do not pay their fair share in taxes. They ignore that they generally invest in businesses supplying jobs to the rest of us.

The fact that the govt manages to spend inefficiently does not seem to matter

Bewildering
 

It is bewildering to hear people who pay almost nothing in taxes or may even get returns, telling the rest of us to pay more in taxes. Hearing neighbors speak of their returns and how they are going on a cruise kind of seems off when your standing right next to them knowing you have to write a big check to your tax attorney guy.