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Reunion 1989 movie Screenplay by Harold Pinter. Mixed reviews at the time but I thought it was great. The story of an ideal (non sexual) boyhood friendship between the son of a very German Jewish doctor and the son of a top aristocrat during the rise of the Nazis. Predictably because of the era, things fall apart. Reunion (1989) - IMDb

Expats can only do A and B.

Eating it must be processed through the liver so the effects last a very long time. Under the tongue is more immediate and lasts shorter similar to smoking or dry herb vaping.

No. The point was look at the value at the end of 2023 and a member seemed to be saying as that amount was earned before then, ALL of it was not Thai taxable, for life. Withdrawing as needed, for life. But don't look at me for definitive advice on these matters. I am completely confused and probably will remain so for a very long time.

I have no idea what you're talking about. 500K in IRAs trad or Roth or 401ks are almost always invested in something. Not just sitting there. If not Roth, taking out huge chunks gets a huge US tax bill so the incentive is to only withdrawal what you actually need or are forced to under IRA rules at about age 72.

More confusion for me. So if you had 500K USD in a retirement account on that date, you could then bring in up to 500K for the rest of your life Thai tax free? Seperate from government pensions which are another thing.

Giving false information if discovered WILL end the policy. But it's a big trend now in Mexico and Panama for expats with U.S. addresses on record with SS and Medicare (must be the same) to pose as part time expats and use Advantage for emergency coverage. It's no good for chronic illnesses. I don't endorse this. Just reporting about it.

No. For Part B you don't have to be in the U.S. EVER. You can pay for it then. But you can't use it abroad. ENJOY!

Medicare advantage REPLACES B. As you're talking about initial signup at anytime when you turn 65, it make sense that during that exemption time period (open enrollment not needed) you could somehow enroll in Advantage at that time. I don't know how. But I didn't see that as your question. Your question seemed to be that you already signed up for A and B during initial exemption period and then wanted Advantage. People can only change programs during the open enrollment period unless under an exemption.

You'd need to change to Advantage during open enrollment.

In that case, if you didn't touch it the only income would be dividends. If you sold funds within the account, that would be a profit or loss. If your theory is correct, that might indicate the withdrawals from traditional IRAs wouldn't Thai tax events either. At this point I'm not so much worried about the tax liability, as how much time I will need to take and money to spend on "tax advisors" who will probably all have different opinions. This is extremely annoying. I can't even imagine that Thai tax law will address every weird angle of every type of financial activity of every nation in the world. More likely they'll throw this half baked stuff out there and watch us scramble like headless chickens. I'm too invested here at this point -- but I will say to others: DO NOT COME.

I can imagine him being president during a second term if he had continued running and had won. Running for president, doing debates, etc. is a different thing than actually being president. Do I think he would have lasted the entire four years? I don't know. I'm not God. But if not, then we would have Harris, who we will hopefully have starting in January.

This is a very interesting issue to me as I have a traditional taxed in the US as income IRA. People with Roth IRA's are not taxed on withdrawals. What's confusing to me is that why should the Thai tax system see any withdrawal from basically a retirement savings account (Roth IRA, trad IRA, or 401K) as income even if the U.S. system does? I'm not certain that they would. Also, IF they do, aren't people with Roth IRAs at risk as being taxed on withdrawals by Thailand even though they're exempt in the U.S.? Is there really any DTA law to cover this mess?!?

To dodge prison is the main reason. He also loves the pomp and circumstance of the office, fancies himself a dictator, loves to be worshipped and loves to punish those who don't worship him and make all such people fear him, but doesn't like to do the actual work involved of a normal presidency. He's an extremely dangerous and mentally deranged individual. Yes also he is mentally deteriorating at a rapid pace. Compared to Biden, he's as decrepit as Biden, but has been graded on a curve by the media, because he's always been insane. VOTE HIM OUT! Next ...

I don't know about this popular vote vs. actual outcome controversy but I do know his current position recently stated is the truth that the popular national vote is irrelevant. So as far as his current prediction it's only about the results, not the popular vote. Of course there is zero chance Trump will win the popular vote.

No surprise. Both Tucker and Vance both useful idiots for Putin or worse.

Exactly. They would have definitely doomed him.

Right. You can't apply the PC standards of today to any historical figure.

Aside from Lichtman's remarkable success in predicting, a really cool thing about him is that he's open about his political views while at the same time being totally objective on his presidential keys analysis. The same man posted this and also correctly predicted Trump would win in 2016 which went against the consensus.

Cheap tease. Spill the beans or don't say anything. You just don't want to be on record because your theory like most of your U.S. political theories are most likely completely ridiculous.

That's garbage if you look at how the Trump campaign was totally unprepared (and still is) to run against Harris instead of Trump. There is ZERO chance Trump would have picked Vance if he really thought he would be running against Harris. Sometimes your lack of elementary level understanding of U.S. politics surprises but I guess you have an excuse as a foreigner. Harris won't melt down in the debate. That's absurd. Doesn't mean she will strongly "win" it but melting down, nope.

100 percent

Whether the convicted felon wins or loses, I agree that history will show it was a mistake by Trump to do an early debate. But I think that was an accidental error. There is no way that Trump could have known that the debate would have been as incredibly bad as it was for Biden. I think its safe to assume early debates which haven't happened before, won't happen again.

You obviously think that's clever. It ain't.

Wait, there's MUCH more.