100% of retirement accounts in Roth- is tax bracket 0%?

8% of retirees have to pay [snip]

I found a site which gives different statistics than those which you have posted.

58 "The standard Medicare Part B monthly premium will be $93.50 in 2007, an increase of $5.00 or 5.6 percent from the current $88.50 Part B premium, considerably lower than was earlier projected. This premium is the smallest percent increase in the Part B premium since 2001 and less than half of the dollar increase in the premium for 2006. "

and

"In 2007, approximately 4 percent of Medicare Part B enrollees with higher incomes will pay a higher Part B premium based on their income. The income-related Part B premiums for 2007 will be $105.80, $124.40, $142.90, or $161.40, depending on the extent to which an individual beneficiary's income exceeds $80,000 (or a married couple's income exceeds $160,000), with the highest premium rates only paid by less than 1 percent of beneficiaries whose incomes are over $200,000 (or $400,000 for a married couple). "

Perhaps a greater percentage of MIFP readers/posters will be subject to the higher Medicare premiums than in the general retirement population. Still, this seems like a non-issue for most folks.

Elizabeth Richardson

Well ... strictly speaking -- that's exactly where you've gone wrong in your analysis. Our nice representatives out there in D.C. *will* find a way to bone us, and bone us hard.

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