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So again, I don't know a single entrepreneur who decides to start or not start a company based on the capital gains tax rate or where to start a company based on capital gains rate, it simply isn't a factor of any importance whatsoever among a myriad of factors that matter far more. And again...

Top marginal rate income tax (real marginal rate before consumption taxes) in CA (fed plus state) was 52.9% before the federal tax cut. Medicare marginal 2.35 (ignoring the employer portion). The sales tax in San Francisco is 8.5%. So taxes alone at 62.75% in the valley using your methodology. I...

No, actually specific terms in economics have specific meaning. The term "marginal tax rate" very specifically means the amount of tax on the last dollar (marginal) earned. You can certainly make an argument for the impact of tax on someone living somewhere, but you can't just make up your own...

So first off excise taxes and VAT are charged on consumption, income tax is charged on earnings, so combining them for a "combined marginal rate" is nonsensical. Even more so when considering that excise tax is only charged on a small minority of items like alcohol, so while consumption taxes...

I think it is either a bot or a combination of a language barrier and some developmental disabilities, all it's posts seem to be jibberish.

Most allow you to hold treasuries in your name and then you margin off that for your trading. That way if they go under the treasuries still belong to you.

Yeah, you're right, me too (although I'm a cruel business owner who only offers free coffee, soda and snacks, no ice cream, too messy to maintain the machine!)

This is the guy who had his Homeland Security Secretary (acting) draw a fake Hurricane Dorian forecast track with a magic marker so he could hold a press conference to prove that he was right when he misspoke saying Alabama was going to be hit by the hurricane...

A couple of thoughts. First you earlier pointed out that "It does not seem just liner time progression to me." and that is correct, it isn't linear. Just think about the decay in the last 5 minutes of an options life vs 5 minutes of decay on a day 30 days before expiration to intuitively grasp...

Actually I'd argue that electrical or software engineer without any management training as project managers at any tech firm often lead to disaster, especially when it comes to actual business success for the company. MBA with a non-technical undergrad, agreed probably a bigger disaster. MBA...

Got it. Agree completely, thanks for the correction.

Just to be clear, this isn't an IRS issue. A U.S. citizen owes taxes on their worldwide income regardless, although there are tax treaties to avoid double taxation on the first $X in some countries. This is a state tax question, basically asking if you lived in say, NY, and then moved to Spain...

T-bills are zero coupon, Treasury bonds and notes pay coupons, you're right, and may also trade at a premium or discount to their par to reflect the current rate vs the rate when they were issued.

It's important to note that the state you have to convince isn't WY or TX or whatever state you want to claim residence in without having lived there. The state you have to convince is the state you last lived in which presumes you owe them taxes on your worldwide income until you can prove that...

Not familiar with sovereign non bills? Related to U.S. Treasuries?

Actually all those things on Oahu when I lived there a decade ago, add that you couldn't go to many beaches outside the tourist areas because they're controlled by the meth dealers who squat there, but like I said I'm sure to a lesser degree than you experienced. But I was actually more...

Thanks!

I can totally see everything you're saying about Spain re the general inertia to everything, I felt that way living in Hawaii and I don't imagine it's even a fraction as bad. Cold is certainly relative, having lived in San Francisco for many years I feel like Portugal's coastal climate is very...

Spain and Portugal have programs that make it relatively easy to "buy" residency and eventually citizenship and having an EU passport makes all of Europe a lot easier. U.K. doesn't have the program, soon won't have the EU, and is only relatively inexpensive for an American now because it's a...

Thanks. I'm planning on doing this post kids graduating from high school and only living there part-time, so far easier situation that you're dealing with. I was tempted with Spain because my Spanish is decent and my Portuguese non-existent, but stories like yours are balancing the scale in the...