AspenAdventures
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Everyone in the USA can retire with $1.6 million in the bank!
Do you know that 7% of your earnings...(http://blog.accountingcoach.com/social-security-tax/)...goes to social security tax? Your employer has to match that! That is money they could give you but they have to pay it on your behalf to Uncle Sam.
What if you kept it? What if the government still took it but put it in Treasury Bonds which are completely owned by the US government and completely safe? THEN EACH AMERICAN WOULD RETIRE AT AGE 66 WITH $1,172,360.24
Right now the average american retires and gets from Social Security a whopping $158,400 benefit over an average 11 year retirement. Most people die at age 77 in the USA and reitre at 66 for an 11 year retirement. You and your employer put in $280,000 and got back $158,400 after letting the gov have it for 50 years. They keep if for 50 years and give back half?
Want to boost the economy? Had this been figured out 50 years ago the average Baby Boomer would have over $1 million to spend in the economy now.
Why not?
Try the math yourself on a calculator like this.....
http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/retirement-planning-spreadsheet.html
"One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
Do you know that 7% of your earnings...(http://blog.accountingcoach.com/social-security-tax/)...goes to social security tax? Your employer has to match that! That is money they could give you but they have to pay it on your behalf to Uncle Sam.
What if you kept it? What if the government still took it but put it in Treasury Bonds which are completely owned by the US government and completely safe? THEN EACH AMERICAN WOULD RETIRE AT AGE 66 WITH $1,172,360.24
Right now the average american retires and gets from Social Security a whopping $158,400 benefit over an average 11 year retirement. Most people die at age 77 in the USA and reitre at 66 for an 11 year retirement. You and your employer put in $280,000 and got back $158,400 after letting the gov have it for 50 years. They keep if for 50 years and give back half?
Want to boost the economy? Had this been figured out 50 years ago the average Baby Boomer would have over $1 million to spend in the economy now.
Why not?
Try the math yourself on a calculator like this.....
http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/retirement-planning-spreadsheet.html
"One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."