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Subject: Re: Poll: Social Security percentage of income | Date: 3/23/2013 9:46 PM | |
Author: telegraph | Number: 18323 of 20599 | |
Unlike people with fat pensions......some of us have to live off our nest eggs. That nest egg will usually have 'excess income' which we will have to re-invest- or it automatically does like stock funds unless you specifically withdraw the cap gains distributions and the dividends during the year. I 'take' out and us about 2/3rds of what I have to pay tax on...... the rest has to be re-invested if I expect my nest egg to survive. Thus, SS is about 1/3rd of what spend each year. Of course, by the time they take out my Medicare payment........and I have them take out some withholding........ if you figure 'net SS', that is an even smaller contribution to spendable money. t. |
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