FinanceDude
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retire@40 said:I didn't realize I was talking to you.
For someone that's retired early, you sure have a lot of hostility in you.
retire@40 said:I didn't realize I was talking to you.
For someone that's retired early, you sure have a lot of hostility in you.
Martha said:I'll try to douse some fires here. Everyone is right.
You can't borrow from an IRA under section 408 of the IRC. So as retire@40 alludes to, you don't want to use the words "borrow" and "ira" in the same sentence when talking to the IRA.
But, you can withdraw money from an IRA provided you put it back into an IRA within 60 days. This is considered to be a rollover, not a loan. So you use the money for what you want to use it for in the grace period you have to rollover an IRA into another. It is not a loan as a technical matter.
That would be a PM or an e-mail, not a post in a public forum.retire@40 said:I didn't realize I was talking to you.
Perhaps.retire@40 said:For someone that's retired early, you sure have a lot of hostility in you.
Nords said:Perhaps.
For someone who's self-employed and living their avocation, you sure seem to spend a lot of time here aggrandizing yourself to your audience. That sort of smarter-than-thou behavior kinda reminds me of JG and others who'd use the board as a pulpit to pontificate their purported knowledge instead of teaching or at least sharing with others. It's easy to spout a question that appears to imply wisdom & experience while making you look smarter than the rest of the crowd, but it's a bit more effort to back it up with an actual reference or link.
You ask a lot of questions-- but I notice that Martha and others end up actually answering them.
Nords said:For someone who's self-employed and living their avocation, you sure seem to spend a lot of time here aggrandizing yourself to your audience. That sort of smarter-than-thou behavior kinda reminds me of JG and others who'd use the board as a pulpit to pontificate their purported knowledge instead of teaching or at least sharing with others. It's easy to spout a question that appears to imply wisdom & experience while making you look smarter than the rest of the crowd, but it's a bit more effort to back it up with an actual reference or link.
Well, I think that your answers responses are intended more to provoke than to elucidate. I used to see that behavior (from co-workers) that was classified as passive-aggressive-- not actually opposing the proposal but asking so many what-if questions and raising so many thoughtless issues that the result was disarray, disorder, and regrouping. Others would be assigned to tackle the problems & issues (and actually resolve them) while the co-worker was free to rocket off to disrupt the next project. Very disruptive.retire@40 said:I give simple answers and to the point.
I give an opinion, and you get hostile because I don't give a reference.
I give a reference, and you get hostile because I don't explain the reference.
I'll leave that up to the board. I'm not offended by you as much as I'm offended by the behavior, with its implication that it's acceptable to toss the hand-grenade interrogatories into the discussion for your own amusement. But that's just my opinion.retire@40 said:You must be a tough guy to live with.
I hadn't particularly noticed.retire@40 said:If you have noticed, I have stayed away from you for a long time. I recommend you do the same.
retire@40 said:Maybe you should look yourself in the mirror.
I give simple answers and to the point.
I give an opinion, and you get hostile because I don't give a reference.
I give a reference, and you get hostile because I don't explain the reference.
Martha said:... you and Saluki ended up arguing for no good reason.
Martha said:I sometimes bump heads with you, most often because of your style of posting. I enjoy a discussion or dispute about a tax or legal issue. For example, some time ago you and I disputed the effectiveness of a family limited partnership as a mechanism for shielding assets from creditors. Those kind of discussions are enjoyable. However, sometimes you will ask a question on a tax thread that raises an issue, and I am pretty sure you know the answer to your own question. You do that instead of explaining why the question and corresponding answer are important. Here is an example:
http://early-retirement.org/forums/index.php?topic=11539.msg210129#msg210129
Martha said:But how did that help OP? If you know the answer, just give it up.
Martha said:Just so I can understand you better, did you know that they really were talking about using a rollover loophole to use the money for 60 days?
Martha said:And after you come back a scooter might seem speedy.