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[sea2summit]

I wish that we had a flat tax and did away with all of the games. But many accounting firms would go belly up if that happens.

Since I am on the lower end of the brackets I absolutely don’t want a flat tax!

 

[sea2summit]

You were going on a line of thought that I like, but I thought the resulting tariff war would not be worth it. But now I think they are giving us the business anyway on whats being shipped through the ports, as they are telling us a simple order for things like solar equipment will take a month or more, and ordering specific heavy household items like furniture you may be looking at a year.

When there is a huge trade deficit, something is unsustainable.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

Reminds me of a Presidential debate I watched. One candidate was complaining about paying more taxes than the other candidate. The second candidate said that simply means I'm smarter than you.

dude... you are killing me...

 

[Mtsoxfan]

I think what he means is the recent drop in the stock market. I lost $15k in the S&P 500 in the past 2 weeks. Of course I made money over the past year. But it’s always hard to see a drop in your funds in a short period of time.

I get it. I am assuming we are not educated stock brokers that are day trading? If you put money in the stock market in comanies you have researched, and you don't have immediate need for funds, you shouldn't be looking at the market every month. It'll drive you nuts.
After working at, not for, CIGNA Insurance, I watched their stock. Doesn't pay dividents worth mentioning, but the money is in growth. And insurance copanies grow...
Invested about $5k somewhere in early 2000's, and after a couple of splits and growth, worth very much more, because of time.

 

[Reddogs]

I get it. I am assuming we are not educated stock brokers that are day trading? If you put money in the stock market in comanies you have researched, and you don't have immediate need for funds, you shouldn't be looking at the market every month. It'll drive you nuts.
After working at, not for, CIGNA Insurance, I watched their stock. Doesn't pay dividents worth mentioning, but the money is in growth. And insurance copanies grow...
Invested about $5k somewhere in early 2000's, and after a couple of splits and growth, worth very much more, because of time.

I always told my buddy, we should have picked up the HP stock in the 70's when I saw all those printers in our computer lab in college..but who has money in college...

 

[jyoutz]

The stimulus check thing is a joke. Just do away with Federal Income Tax. That would work for me.

And then we would have no military, highways, etc..,

 

[jyoutz]

I get it. I am assuming we are not educated stock brokers that are day trading? If you put money in the stock market in comanies you have researched, and you don't have immediate need for funds, you shouldn't be looking at the market every month. It'll drive you nuts.
After working at, not for, CIGNA Insurance, I watched their stock. Doesn't pay dividents worth mentioning, but the money is in growth. And insurance copanies grow...
Invested about $5k somewhere in early 2000's, and after a couple of splits and growth, worth very much more, because of time.

I don’t pick stocks. I just have a S&P 500 index fund.

 

[jyoutz]

When there is a huge trade deficit, something is unsustainable.

Really? And why is a trade deficit bad? It just shows that Americans are wealthier than citizens of other countries and can afford to import more goods than the poorer countries. I’ve never understood why some people think that imports and exports must balance.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

I always told my buddy, we should have picked up the HP stock in the 70's when I saw all those printers in our computer lab in college..but who has money in college...

Yea, I'm more of a dreamer. I have watched stocks I was interested in go from rags to riches. Never invested because I believed I worked too hard to gamble my money. After a while, I just decided to make my own rubric for what I think could be a successful stock investment and slowly dipped my toes. My "big" investments like CIGNA all have done well. The many other smaller investments, not so much. I gues there was a reason I didnt invest more than a couple hundred. In retrospect it was more of a gamble.

 

[sea2summit]

Really? And why is a trade deficit bad? It just shows that Americans are wealthier than citizens of other countries and can afford to import more goods than the poorer countries. I’ve never understood why some people think that imports and exports must balance.

You can only send your money somewhere else for so long before you run out on wealth. Change my mind