Will the Financial Order of Operations (FOO) Ever Change?
Money Guy Show
Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Okay, next up we have a question from Austin. |
| 0:09.8 | He says, I've heard for younger investors, under 25% total taxes, Roth is more favorable |
| 0:16.5 | and above 30% traditional is more favorable. |
| 0:20.6 | Do tax percentage rules change based on age and if so, how? |
| 0:26.6 | Does percentage rules do not change based on age? |
| 0:31.2 | What makes the most sense for you, however, does change based on age. |
| 0:35.7 | Now we have see people all the time that say, hey, I don't care. |
| 0:39.3 | Even if you are a 22 year old, you make a million bucks a year. |
| 0:42.6 | You're in the top tax bracket and you live in a high tax state. |
| 0:46.8 | Even then, you ought to do Roth. |
| 0:49.5 | I understand the academia behind that and the thought of long term tax-free growth, but I |
| 0:54.6 | also understand the value of present day tax savings. |
| 0:58.8 | If I can give you a dollar and in return, you're going to give me a 30% immediate rate of |
| 1:03.6 | return. |
| 1:04.6 | That's how you can think about the tax savings. |
| 1:06.3 | It's really, really difficult to walk away from that benefit. |
| 1:11.4 | However, we have seen, later in life, we have clients that have very large 401Ks and |
| 1:17.6 | they've got very large taxable brokerage accounts and they're still saving in their 401K. |
| 1:22.4 | They're thinking, you know what? |
| 1:23.8 | I'm not going to run out of money. |
| 1:26.3 | What I really need to be thinking about are how I'm going to legacy plan for the next |
| 1:31.7 | generation. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Brian Preston, CPA, CFP®, PFS and Bo Hanson, CFA, CFP® | Fee-Only Fiduciary Advisors and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

