Political decisions can have a huge impact on both your financial and personal life.
Alas, there is only one thing we can do to help dictate which kind of tax system we face and that is vote.
After over a decade of broken promises and rising costs, our need for a more sustainable tax system is acutely felt.
After over a decade of broken promises and rising costs, our need for a more sustainable healthcare system is acutely felt.
The Tax Foundation recently published the article “Dwindling Savings and Increasing Financial Stress Highlights Need for Tax Reforms” suggesting that tax reform could improve the current state of American personal finances.
This lie was PolitiFact’s 2013 lie of the year, but we dub it the lie of the century.
This article is a curated list of recent news about Taiwan.
We’ll have to wait and see what they really mean by these lofty goals.
I have difficultly imagining a likely outcome where I would regret a Roth conversion.
While there can be a lot of uncertainty, the conclusion is normally anticlimactic.
On Tuesday, January 10, 2023, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to talk about the current debt ceiling discussions.
Malcolm Gladwell establishes two opposing types of problems: a strong-link problem and a weak-link problem. Which type of problem can charitable giving solve?
On Tuesday, December 13, 2022, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to talk about the causes of inflation.
George Marotta remembers his time serving in World War II.
As Edward R. Morrow would say at the close of his popular news broadcasts, “And that is the way it was on the home front during World War II.”
After my military service in World War II, I warned fellow students that “there is going to be trouble in Korea!”
Regardless of which it is and whether we are in a recession, it is always a good time to have a balanced portfolio.
On Tuesday, April 12, 2022, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to talk about dangers of seeking utopia and the sinfulness of humanity.
I decided to see if McDonald’s famous burger was still appreciating faster than the CPI. It has been.
This letter to the editor from George Marotta was published in The Stanford Daily on June 24, 1988.
On Tuesday, March 8, 2022, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to talk about “How The United States Ruined Its Own Fiscal Health.”
At 4.0% inflation, cash will lose 82.88% of its value over 45 years. Such loss of value can ruin a retirement plan more so than any market returns. Your long term investments need to appreciate well over inflation. The best method to do that is to stay mostly invested in stocks.
On Tuesday, February 8, 2022, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to talk about “The Failure of Government.”
On Tuesday, November 9, 2021, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to talk about health insurance subsidies and inflation.
On Tuesday, August 10, 2021, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to talk about Systemic Inequality in the Social Security Rules.
Social Security as it exists today is a failure either way you look at it.
On Tuesday, May 11, 2021, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to talk about Biden’s support of unions.
On Tuesday, April 13, 2021, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to discuss corporate tax rates.
On Tuesday, March 9, 2021, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to talk about raising the minimum wage.
Before you assume that moral licensing such as Fairtrade is the only ethical consumerism, think again. Understanding how such licensing works shows how little good it actually does.
On Tuesday, May 12, 2020, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to discuss government regulations which made it more difficult for the free markets to cope with COVID-19.
We need to go beyond good intentions. The underprivileged among us deserve good results.
Wealth management is in your control and there are actions you can take regardless of who wins today.
Every day, the government has the chance to free our children from this burden.
Voting early has the same process as voting in-person.
Rekenthaler’s proposed narrowing of choices to a one-size fits all national solution provides a poor substitution for our current choices.
On Tuesday, February 11, 2020, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show to take a closer look at the calls for free college education in the socialist utopia.
Hong Kong has always been an anomaly: a tiny, extremely free country with an expiration date in 2047.
On Tuesday, May 12, 2020, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to refute the hypocrisy of taking a tax credit while opposing the legislation.
Pagans accept Christmas presents. Self-estranged children accept inheritance. Libertarians accept tax credits.
Don’t let your political emotions cause you to be fearful about the economy. Those misplaced fears may impoverish your financial well-being.
The space of disagreement between tolerance and intolerance is often lost in the socialist perspective.
The increasing monoculture within universities pushes, at least slightly, each graduating class more toward favoring socialism.
It looks like the calculator is simply wrong. It uses a 3% tax rate instead of the 6% tax rate they cite for the Elizabeth Warren’s Tax Plan.
Our first step is not “closing our eyes and imaging it.” We need our eyes wide open analyzing each idea for its own individual costs and benefits.
One common socialist assumption is that government collectivism is so essential for success that there is no such thing as self-sufficiency.
Edward Bellamy’s novel “Looking Backward” moved hearts and minds, ultimately moving nations and history.
One of the most common socialist assumptions is that it is possible to perfect society.
Social Security just turned 84 years old today (August 14, 2019). It has stayed alive on the false sentiment of sunk costs.
The appeal to the Nordic countries from socialists is a false one. Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway are examples of market economies, not socialism.
The unpleasant reality is that socialism quickly turns to the use of force to bring about their vision of society.