I was bored last night, so I decided to determine what my effective tax rate for 2017 is going to be. Since I know what my income and property taxes will be for 2017, this calculation was rather straight forward. Here it is. The only thing that posed a little problem was estimating the amount …
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Earlier this year, I started looking into Obamacare. I wanted to get an idea of what health insurance would cost me in 2017, the first calendar year Mrs. Groovy and I would be retired and would thus no longer have employer-provided health insurance. Here is what I found on the Blue Cross Blue Shield website. …
Mr. Groovy and I are moving into uncharted territory—in 2017 we will no longer have employer covered health insurance. We’re each eligible to continue employer coverage through COBRA, but we’ll roll the dice and enroll in Obamacare under the Affordable Care Act. However, we have little idea what that will look like. I share our …
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Last week at Freedom Is Groovy, we got into a rollicking debate over the value of a bachelor’s degree. I took the controversial position that a bachelor’s degree is a scam. And, of course, I got gently lambasted for this position. James over at Retirement Savvy and Vicki over at Make Smarter Decisions made some …
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Special Note In the comments section, James from RetirementSavvy called me out on reasons 6, 7, and 8. Here’s his exact rebuke. Also, reasons 6-8 strike me more as an attempt to make political points and not real points about the value of attaining a college degree. I respect James a lot, so I naturally …
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