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This is rich (to me).
A leftie source complains that highly-taxed folks see their property values drop due to increased taxes.
Boo hoo.
Trump’s trillion-dollar hit to homeowners
In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has been talking about plans for, as he put it, a “very substantial tax cut for middle income folks who work so hard.” But before Congress embarks on a new tax measure, people should consider one of the largely unexamined effects of the last...
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I’m still tweaking my update of my pension plan cash flow spreadsheet, so while I’m doing that, I’m thinking about the hard choices being made by politicians (and taxpayers) as money gets tighter.
First, I saw this at the Tax Prof blog: My University Is Dying; Soon Yours Will Be,...
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I have primarily focused on public pensions, but I also keep an eye on other types of pensions. I am very pro-reliable retirement income, and my interest got started in the difference between the valuation treatment of annuities (in which I used to work) and pensions of any sort.
That...
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[Just to clarify: the proposal is to put a bunch of plans in two piles. I just didn’t want to change the blog post title.]
The governor of Illinois has released a report:
Report to Governor JB Pritzker
Illinois Pension Consolidation Feasibility Task Force
October 10, 2019
Executive Summary
Of the financial challenges facing the...
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I review some of the non-Dickens books she read this summer. Also, I have some remarks about reading books.by meep
(SALT cap zero NOWWWWW!)
WSJ: Judge Dismisses States’ Challenge to Trump Tax Overhaul
A federal judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit filed by four East Coast states that said part of the 2017 federal tax overhaul is unconstitutional because it was politically motivated.
The focus of the lawsuit in...
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