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As for what each tax change means – anyone an accountant? I understand general changes, but for instance since I have never had an employer pay for parking, I would not even know where to begin with that one!

For the Dumb & the Feckless among us, could you translate this into “what it means in the real world”?

Videlicet:, so, if capital gains taxes drop to near nothing for a short period and you have some money that’s been in mutual funds or the stock market for a long time, would it be in your interest to move $5,000 out of mutual fund A into Roth IRA B in 2008? Is this a good time to move money out of taxable investments into a Roth IRA?

Tax-free parking? So, this would mean the $880 Our Beloved Employer is now charging for disabled parking would be…what? free? Or…$880 removed from our taxable gross income, meaning not free about maybe (whoop-de-doo!) about $50 less owed to the IRS in April? Given that the city where OBE operates allows us crips to park in metered spaces for free, is it still to the advantage of we who are Lame & Halt to limp an extra couple of blocks into the office, rather than skimping on groceries to park a little closer to the door? How does this really affect the dreaded bottom line?

I not only hate taxes (right on, Baglady!), I find US tax law utterly inscrutable. What, really, does it mean for real human beings?