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1 posted on 05/10/2011 9:52:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, someone has to go first ...


2 posted on 05/10/2011 9:55:00 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The USSR spent itself into bankruptcy and collapsed -- and aren't we on the same path now?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Is not the I WON going to Ireland sometime soon? Who knows what ideas and concepts he plans to bring back.


3 posted on 05/10/2011 9:55:11 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: Tax-chick

Will the last industrious, productive person in Ireland please turn off the lights upon leaving.


4 posted on 05/10/2011 9:55:46 AM PDT by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Didn’t Argentina seize all the money in private pension funds?


5 posted on 05/10/2011 9:58:23 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: SeekAndFind

Do Irish pensioners pay income tax on the pension?

I already pay on my private pension at regular US federal tax rates.

It’s a helluva lot more than 0.6 percent obviously.


6 posted on 05/10/2011 9:58:32 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: SeekAndFind

BOHICA!!!!


7 posted on 05/10/2011 9:59:22 AM PDT by GQuagmire ('Don't Piss The Lady Off')
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To: SeekAndFind

Looks like it’s already starting to happen here:

Illinois Senate president wants to look at taxing retirement income

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2011/03/illinois-senate-president-wants-to-look-at-taxing-retirement-income.html

And here’s what other European countries are doing:

European nations begin seizing private pensions

Hungary, Poland, and three other nations take over citizens’ pension money to make up government budget shortfalls

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/The-Adam-Smith-Institute-Blog/2011/0102/European-nations-begin-seizing-private-pensions


9 posted on 05/10/2011 10:05:16 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: SeekAndFind

Sorry I am not well versed in finance or for that matter, any money matter.

Is this saying they are proposing no difference between the Before Tax and the After Tax contributions for your pension?


11 posted on 05/10/2011 10:09:34 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: SeekAndFind

And it will only last 4 years,if you believe that i got a bridge for sale..


12 posted on 05/10/2011 10:09:36 AM PDT by GSP.FAN (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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My fear is waking up one morning and the deed is done. The cowards in D.C. will NOT project this scheme.

I wonder how quickly America will be locked down so the cowards in D.C. can move freely after their massive theft.

13 posted on 05/10/2011 10:17:07 AM PDT by Michael Barnes
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To: SeekAndFind

The US Gov’t carries out its stealth taxes differently.

We have the FED buy Gov’t debt/print money. Money is printed, Gov’t spends it on “jobs programs” or whatever scheme they have in mind, the money stock is diluted, you pay more for food, fuel, etc... due to inflation, your savings are expropriated through negative real interest rates, and your real salary declines.

The end result is as the same as Irish though.


16 posted on 05/10/2011 10:27:54 AM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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To: SeekAndFind
I remember that Laura Tyson the Chair of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers joined Jessie Jackson's effort to take 15-percent of all private retirement funds.

The money was to be used to fund "inner city" projects.

Folks, that's how 1960s Marxist-Alinsky street/campus revolutionary rabble and their ideological issue feeeeeeeeel about these things. Arguably they are now "the Establishment." Certainly in the universities and the MSM they are. They are the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party).

18 posted on 05/10/2011 10:33:36 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Someone’s got to pay off the Banks somehow.

Bloody way to run a country that could be extremely productive into the ground,same thing that happened under British rule is happening now.Most likely it will lead to the same results.

Then the lunatics running this country will go crying that they had to pay for making a mess of things,what a bunch of ignorant trash.


26 posted on 05/10/2011 10:46:20 AM PDT by Del Rapier
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To: SeekAndFind

bttt


27 posted on 05/10/2011 11:04:47 AM PDT by petercooper (2012 - Purge the RINO's.)
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To: SeekAndFind

What do we get for putting our money in a (pre-tax) IRA or 401K? Do we get a tax break? Not really, we get taxed on the full amount, it is just delayed. So what good is it? It is rules city, limits and penalties if we withdraw early, withdraw late, etc., etc.. And now it is in danger of being taxed or confiscated. For what? The big, great, advantage of delaying taxes from when it is earned to when it is spent. It ain’t worth it.


28 posted on 05/10/2011 11:08:00 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: SeekAndFind

Folks, this are two reasons why governments love pension progrms. The first reason is the ostensible concern that people are too stupid to save for their old age. The second is that pension programs create vast pools of wealth that can be easily tapped into because they must account to government.


32 posted on 05/10/2011 11:12:00 AM PDT by Skepolitic
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The new tax on private pensions will be 0.6%, and last for four years.

As soon as the road is paid for we'll stop collecting tolls.

35 posted on 05/10/2011 12:03:19 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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