Comments by RandomMember (page 10)

Funds inside an IRA are completely free of capital gains.

I thought you had me on ignore, dipshit. You can sell shares inside an IRA/401K for 30 years without generating a single taxable event. Only when you withdraw the money, do you pay taxes. Don't you understand the concept, idiot? Yes I know something about the income for ACA subsidies. Previously the subsidies dropped like a cliff at about $60K. The threshold is being extended upward.

Just stating the obvious, but anyone can still trade in 401ks and IRAs without generating capital gains. Plus, the increase in capital gains is tied to income, and those making under $1M/yr will not see the increase. It targets more like the top 0.1% and funding benefits society as a whole with a better-educated workforce. The capital gains tax also funds the ACA and increases health insurance subsidies for upper-middle-class people like @Dugan who, earlier, griped about a $5K/yr increase in his family's health insurance. CCs serve a purpose, allowing just about anyone to learn a trade or transfer to a 4-year school. It's a cheap and worthwhile investment. If hedge-funds and very wealthy high-frequency traders are upset about the new rules, I couldn't give a shit.

"Only in Biden's administration would you have an old bag with purple hair..." __________________________ Speaking of old bags and hairstyles, our previous geriatric president had scalp-reduction surgery and repulsive cotton-candy hair that looked something like a dead gerbil stapled to his forehead. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53761744

It's true that Germany should meet the 2% of GDP requirement for NATO countries. But the idea that the US is subsidizing German college students is another @SkiBirther nonsense rant. I got through college and grad school debt-free with scholarships, fellowships research- and teaching assistantships. But students these days have it much harder with college costs up something like 150% over the past 40 years (adjusted for inflation). If parents have any moral obligation, it's keeping kids from disintegrating under a shit pile of debt (as others have pointed out). OT, I did have a few college SBs over the years from affluent families. In one case, both parents were software engineers. In another case, her mother was a pediatrician. And on the other extreme, one was abandoned by her father at a young age and really struggled. Biden's proposing free community college, only, and financed by big increase in capital gains tax. Sounds like a good idea.

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Fascinating thread. And here I thought advertising content was controlled by alien lizard people.

Nice dinner date? C'mon @Mutty -- everyone knows you're famous for car dates in your 1998 Kia hatchback. And you throw in a bag of cheetos for good service.

Of course your medical insurance is "still good." You would pay any applicable copay/coinsurance. Worst case, you can also end up in the ICU by refusing vaccination.

Please don't panic,there's not enough support from moderate Democrats. It will never make it through Congress.

Trust me, since I lived there for 15 years. The parents in Santa Clara County care only about whether their kids are admitted to Stanford or Harvard. Daily Wire (the source of 95% of @Papi's posts) is mindless, right-wing, trash. lol

OP Wrote: " recent study indicated 17.3 pct US sex workers infected with hiv / sorta like roulette where 1 shot in the cylinder of a six shot pistol. Where are strippers risk in this? The same article (just google it) said condoms 95 pct effective vs hiv (not 100 pct. Getting scared now? So 1 in 6 middle shots a hit and shields will fail 5 pct per shi" ______________ Since you insist on grinding out the math, you forgot to multiply by (5/10000) which is the approx transmission probabilityy for heterosexual sex ( according to CDC, and assuming one partner is infected). Risk of HIV with condom is astronomically small.

@Mutty, "sacrilege" isn't accurate at all. More like comical. I'm sure every young women dreams of a car date with you.

^^ After 1.5 yrs maybe she does care? Seriously, it's an easy cancer to cure if you catch it early.

Puts you at risk for HPV throat cancer, which you can't test for.

How quaint. Dougster's a bright, funny, guy -- but he gradually descended into mental illness. TUSCL will do that to you...

Don't take it so personally, Muddy. She probably hit her head on the steering wheel.

If the alcohol fails, try chloroform.

A year ago all we had was bleach, hydrocholoquine, and other pseudoscience. I'm really surprised that we have effective vaccines on such a short time scale. Biotechnology scientists deserve credit.

@Scrub: "who/what PARTY (DEM or REPUB) has said ANYTHING ABOUT MONTHLY $2K checks?" ________ It was proposed by some democratic Senators for some low-income families. I don't think it went anywhere.

Good topic, and even heavyweight economists don’t know whether inflation is coming. I do remember Rand and Ron Paul harping about hyperinflation in 2008 when Bernanke started quantitative easing. The criticism got so bad that Bernanke and Paulsen left the Republicans party. But it's been over a decade and we never did see much inflation. Some of the same gold-standard nuts are now crypto nuts for obvious reasons. With massive government spending proposed by Biden, even liberal economists like Larry Sumner give something like 1/3 chance of significant inflation. I’m far too timid to invest in cryptos – but having a substantial percentage in real estate seems like a compromise. Personally I’m hoping for higher interest rates so that I can have a safe bond ladder, again,,that actually earns something.

"Trolls thrive on attention and reaction." ________________________ You do understand, you fucking idiot, that @OSU started a thread to troll me. The troll is the OP, dipshit. I'm not responsible for *any* of the downvoting.

Agree with the above--but would include quality of colleges as well as K-12. Also quality of healthcare system with the best teaching hospitals.

@OSU- Notice that I'm using the kind of calm, measured, language that I reserve for people that suffer from mental illness. I promise that I'm not downvoting you or anyone else. Someone else is downvoting you. We've been through this before: you suffer from low self-esteem and you should get some counseling before you have a nervous breakdown. I'm not going to bring it up again because it's boring to the rest of the community.

McNulty wrote: "Do those prepaid credit cards work to conceal your trail? Does WhatsApp conceal your trail?" ______________________ I'm not following the case that closely, but I think Gaetz was sloppy about using Venmo to send money to his intermediary (Joel Greenberg) and Greenberg was on the other end paying the girls. So there's a paper trail linking Gaetz to these girls. With Greenberg pleading guilty, it looks very bad for Gaetz. Gaetz is a clown and it couldn't happen to a nicer guy! What transforms this case from an embarrassment to a healthy jail term is the fact one of the girls is allegedly underage. My best guess is that SA will survive since they do try their best to drive away the Backpage crowd (i.e, the kind of guy who messages "let's meet for a car date at 4PM for $xxx). Law enforcement isn't going to waste time tracking down the kind of guy who meets for 3 platonic dates before starting an arrangement. My tribute to Gaetz: the now-famous picture of him mocking the coronavirus response with a gas mask: https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/04/politics/gaetz-coronavirus-gas-mask/index.html