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»  Splitting Your Savings
The Roth IRA and the 401(k) both provide shelter from the tax man, so use both for retirement savings.

» John McCain and Tax Confusion

Recently (here) I had a post about the respective tax policies of Senators Obama and McCain. Slate has more on Senator McCain and taxes, here, although as the writer (Timothy Noah) makes clear, it's not easy to tell exactly what the Senator really thinks.

The Wall Street Journal's Daniel Henninger goes even further on the subject of Senator McCain and taxes, here, in an article entitled "Is John McCain Stupid?" An excerpt:

Is John McCain losing it?

On Sunday, he said on national television that to solve Social Security "everything's on the table," which of course means raising payroll taxes. On July 7 in Denver he said: "Senator Obama will raise your taxes. I won't."

This isn't a flip-flop. It's a sex-change operation.

Mr. Henninger continues:

What I'm asking is, does John McCain have the mental focus, the intellectual discipline, to avoid being out-slicked by Barack Obama, if he isn't abandoned by his own voters?

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» Who opens the probate estate? Getting organized

I recently wrote a post about saving time and money in probate (it's here). The real message behind all of my ideas is "get organized." And yet I have encountered a number of situations lately where there's sheer disorganization, to the point where multiple members of the same family are attempting to open a probate estate for the same person. Even worse, most of these estates are fairly small, so there's little money to spend. And yet, if you have multiple probates (or attempted probates), you have to bring in the attorneys for each court call, and then work out which person or persons will be handling the estate. It's ALWAYS better to work out these details before things get into court.

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