Mark Bergman

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• Agree - I was expecting someone to make that point !

  Post: Income taxes on retirees with Social Security

  Link to comment from August 15, 2026

• Lol Dan ! I understand what you are saying, nonetheless, paying taxes on what theoretically is a safety net is counterintuitive.

  Post: Income taxes on retirees with Social Security

  Link to comment from August 15, 2026

• In an effort to give RDQ heartburn, I asked Google why SS was created : President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on August 14, 1935, to combat widespread old-age poverty and economic insecurity exposed by the Great Depression. It was created to provide a permanent federal safety net helping retired, unemployed, and vulnerable Americans survive when they could no longer work.  So, help me understand why a program created as a “Safety Net”, should be taxed at all ?

  Post: Income taxes on retirees with Social Security

  Link to comment from August 15, 2026

• Heidi, your premium for medical coverage through COBRA is about the same that I paid in 2020, so given inflation, your cost seems to be very reasonable.

  Post: COBRA insurance: No need to fear the bite

  Link to comment from August 14, 2026

• re: but more likely you’ll find a sad story of those actually running out as a result of dementia related fraud/romance cons etc if this is true, (and i am not saying yes or no) it could equally apply to retirees with very large portfolios, and therefore not really be due to a portfolio “failing”.

  Post: For most retirees, the greatest fear is not death—it is running out of money before they die.

  Link to comment from August 10, 2026

• “For most retirees, the greatest fear is not death—it is running out of money before they die.” Excluding those who retired with negligible savings, does anyone on this forum know of someone who retired with say 1 M in assets - arbitrarily number I’ve chosen - or more, who subsequently ran out of money during their retirement ?

  Post: For most retirees, the greatest fear is not death—it is running out of money before they die.

  Link to comment from August 8, 2026

• I love those tires - they are excellent in winter !

  Post: Tempted by the Shiny and New: Another HD Car Post

  Link to comment from July 5, 2026

• I am traveling and dont have time to cut and paste etc, however, while downloading articles to read on the plane i noticed that The Atlantic has two articles on AC, for those with access.

  Post: The Price of a Cool Pillow

  Link to comment from June 28, 2026

• There is a train of thought, coming from serious thinkers, that a reason, or one of the reasons, the EU has not kept pace with the US in terms of productivity and economic growth, is the lack of AC in Europe.

  Post: The Price of a Cool Pillow

  Link to comment from June 26, 2026

• Recent articles - sorry I don’t remember where - describing the results of research on retirement spending indicate : 1) retirees concern about running out of money leads to vast underspending 2) those with automatic income streams are considerably less prone to underspend.

  Post: Automatic Income stream? How important to you?

  Link to comment from June 26, 2026