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Don’t Assume You’ll Pay Less in Taxes in Retirement

Imagine being a passenger on a 747 jumbo jet, sitting on a runway and preparing for takeoff.

But, there’s one big problem: Your large plane will be trying to get up to speed and into the sky while going down a tiny municipal airport runway.

How unsettling would that feel?

This is similar to where we are as a society in terms of how taxes and the tax code will likely change our future financial lives. We have a short runway to do something about it right now, but the end of that runway is quickly approaching. 

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