2018 – VIDEO – The Power of Zero: The Tax Train is Coming – David McKnight

  • Tax Rates
    • 2 – 94%
      • Ronald Reagan
    • 1970s – 70% 
    • Now
  • Debt, Deficit and GDP
  • 5 – Martin Eichenbaum
  • Trump – 
  • Nada
  • 6 – Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics, Boston University, US Presidential Candidate
  • Tom McClintock
  • Tom Hegna, Author, Speaker, PBS Host
  • Van Mueller, Speaker and Financial Advisor
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  • Joseph H. Davis
  • 8 – Hegna
    • Old people don’t spend money
  • 9 – Ben Bernanke
  • 9 – Eichenbaum
  • 10 – Alan Auerbach
  • 10 – David Walker
  • Scott Howell, Gary Herbert – Utah Governor
  • 10 – Hegna
  • McClintock
    • post war boom
  • 12 – Armstrong
  • 12 – re: CBO, OPM, – All saying we have a problem
  • Maya
  • 13 – Ben Bernanke – CBSN
  • Eichenbaum – re: Trump People, entitlements, paying more taxes
  • Nada
  • David Walker – US Comptroller General – 1998-2008
  • Nada

  • 18 – Van Mueller

  • 18 – Don Blanton, President, MoneyTrax, Inc., Financial Advisor
  • Van Mueller
    • Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, the UnAffordable Care Act, 
  • 19 – David McKnight – Social Security
  • 20 – Van Mueller – Biggest birth years
  • 21 – Greg Glassman, CEO, Crossfit
  • Nobody wants to have the hard conversation
    • Why is it being swept under the rug?
  • 22 – David Walker
    • 1983 – Social Security Reform
      • Reason – Trust Fund was going to go dry in a matter of months.  Social Security payments.
  •  – 
  • 23 – Nada – Perhaps even double tax rate
  • Auerbach
  • 24 – Procrastination, kick the can down the road
    • Reduced benefits – Nobody will allow that to happen – Dramatic Tax Increases
  • 24 – Van Mueller
  • re: David Walker – 60 Minutes – 2008 – Tax Rates will have to double. – 4 letter word – Math – Politicians aren’t proficient at that
  • nada – Higher tax rates / cut spending – fulfilling promises
  • 26 –
  • Sovereign Debt Crisis
  • 28 – Bond Markets
  • Federal Debt Held by the Public
  • 30 – George P. Schultz, Former Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, Hoover Institute – Distinguished Fellow
  • 30 – David Walker
  • 31 – US Budget – Discretionary vs non-Discretionary – Promises
  • George P. Schultz, Former Secretary of State, Secretary of Treasury, Hoover Institute – Distinguished Fellow
    • Interest Rate – 0%
    • Deficit
  • 33 – Book – The Power of Zero – Self-Published – Book Version of Presentation
  • 01:00:00 – Van Mueller
  •  – Ed Slott
  • David McKnight – 401ks – Maximize Cash Flow
  • Don Blanton – Loan – 
  • 01:06:00 – Don Blanton –
    • [Bonk: Walker v LSW –
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  • 01 – Laurett Sanchez – The Raft Strategy
  • 01:08:00 – David McKnight – Reposition dollars from Tax-Deferred to Tax-Free
  • Ed Slott – 
  • 01:10:00 – 
  • 01:12:00 – Elizabeth Warren
  • Van Mueller
  • End – Armstrong Williams, TV Host, Radio Host, Author, Commentator