Retirement Income Guide

The White House says it wont touch your social security. And that is exactly how they will cut your benefit. They will not touch social security and allow the trust fund to run dry forcing a 21% reduction in your benefit.

Social Security’s trust fund could run out of money sooner than expected due to changes in taxes and benefits Steps taken to reform Social Security during the Biden and Trump administrations have only made the prospects for a funding crisis more serious.

This is NOT ABOUT POLITICS. The tax cut in 2017 and continuing tax cuts make the deficit WORSE. For each of us to save a few hundred dollars in taxes (if that). tax cuts throw the country into a perilous financial situation for your children and grandchildren. Their standard of living will be far worse. We need to INCREASE taxes and DECREASE spending and ONLY that combination can fix the deficit. This is not about politics--it is simple math.

The accounting maneuver that could make the cost of extending Trump's tax cuts look like zero A controversial budget tactic is gaining steam on Capitol Hill that would make Donald Trump's first-term tax cuts permanent while making room for additional tax break pledges he made on the campaign trail.

This chart indicates that high-dividend stocks have outperformed stocks that pay no dividends. However, the period since 2020 is an anomaly where non-dividend paying stocks have won.