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49. Not hard to believe. Roth does provide a potentially enormousloophole. And if you happen to be lucky enough,

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 11:46 AM

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all your future income could be tax free. In Thiel's and other mega million/billionaires' case, it has nothing to do with luck. Mitt Romney was known to have already amassed a huge fortune in his IRA in his Presidential candidate years -- I'd be surprised if he hadn't done the same thing with a Roth.

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