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This is a victory for the stingy saver Not if he has his savings in stocks. In fact, if he followed the conventional wisdom and put (100 - age) percent of his
by echair 18y ago
This is a victory for the stingy saver
Not if he has his savings in stocks. In fact, if he followed the conventional wisdom and put (100 - age) percent of his assets in stocks, a 40 y.o. stingy saver just lost 5% of his savings today alone. Which is almost certainly more than his share of the $700 billion.
- byrneseyeview 18y agoTax rates are negative, zero, or nominal for most people. There are perhaps 100 million people who pay a substantial amount of income taxes in the US (I am fudging around various numbers to make the math easier, here; see http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/1410.html http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/1410.html for information on how many people simply don't pay taxes). So that's an average of $7000 per serious taxpayer. $7000 is 5% of $140,000. Do you think a typical 40 year-old taxpayer has a $140,000 equity portfolio?