Word: iras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from their income on their state return. Missouri will approve a tax-deductible savings plan in December. Minnesota is expected to adopt a plan in which the state matches 5% of your contributions. These college-savings plans are open to everyone, regardless of income--in contrast to the Roth IRA and other federal savings plans, in which eligibility begins to phase out for couples earning more than...
...said many tax credits and IRA reforms onlyapply to those earning little money, favoring onesegment of society over another...
...thehalf tangential/half-conclusive speeches Murraymakes throughout. In a novel that doesn't revolvearound a climax that estranges its main characterfrom the reader by making him the subject of twoother people's conversation, Murray'sphilosophical effervescence is a rare source ofenergy. Yet, it cloys. For example, after a longdiscussion of how Ira's Estonian nurse used topoke fun at his dainty wife by daintily giving Irablow jobs, Murray mildly pontificates:"Revenge...nothing so big in people and nothing sosmall nothing so audaciously creative in even themost ordinary as the workings of revenge...
Maybe this does sound like what a 90-year-old"ace of English teachers" would say. Maybe thesemoments of reflection, springing for thestar-gazing narrators out of the past, are thebrain of Roth's book. If Ira's story seems opaque,maybe it's his brother's act of remembrance thatis tragic and exciting Murray's retellingcertainly determine the structure of the book.Roth, even when speaking through hisquasi-autobiographical Zuckerman, seems tounderstand the historiographic sacrifice thatMurray has to make to remember his brother socompletely...
...brilliance on some cyber-velocitywindscreen, who certainly does not try to seemcorrect or even revolutionary, Roth always does anamazing job of talking about important things. Inthe present case, that important thing is growingold, without regret but without forgetting thepain. The fireworks and the turgor of MickeySabbath are missed in Ira Ringold, but the radicalmaturity of Murray Ringold manages to stand intheir place. Pervertedly healthy Roth's MurrayRingold interrogates the past as if he still hadtime to learn from it (He dies two months afterthe story's present). The clearest communicationin I Married a Communist has little to dowith communism...