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🗓️ 18 May 2021
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0:00.0 | This is Optimal Finance Daily Episode 1530, investment workshop 42, double fisting your retirement |
0:08.0 | accounts by wanderer of millennial-revolution.com, and I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast, |
0:15.5 | Diana Miriam. This is the show where I serenade you with the sweet sounds of personal finance |
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0:44.3 | Investment Workshop 42, double fisting your retirement accounts by wanderer of millennial-revolution.com. |
0:58.2 | So a few weeks ago, we were in Germany and I met up with a fellow blogger Justin McCurry |
1:03.0 | from rootofgood.com, who was also traveling through Europe with his lovely wife and family at |
1:08.4 | the time. And in our booze socked afternoon, the topic of taxes inevitably came up. Shut up, |
1:15.4 | don't judge. This is how conversations with fires usually go. Anywho, the thing about Justin is |
1:21.3 | that he's a master life hacker. I mean, all of us five people are life hackers, but Justin takes |
1:26.8 | it to a level that impresses even me. This is a guy who deliberately took on student debt because he |
1:32.7 | was able to somehow get it at a rate of 0.75%, then turned around and invested it in |
1:39.3 | treasuries and made money off of it. That's right, Justin actually made money off of student loans. |
1:45.6 | So when he told me about how little he paid in taxes, I wasn't surprised. As early retirees, |
1:51.6 | the tax laws in the US and Canada are super accommodating, and oftentimes you can get away with paying |
1:57.6 | almost nothing in taxes even with a million dollar investment portfolio. But what surprised me was |
2:03.5 | the fact that even while he was working at his full time job, he was still able to reduce his |
2:08.8 | tax bill to almost nothing. In fact, when he was working, him and his wife were making a combined |
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