Brent D. Gardner, CLU, ChFC

For centuries, an Income Annuity was a product that produced a guaranteed income that started within the year. Now one can purchase income that starts many years in the future for pennies on the dollar. We call that a Deferred Income Annuity or DIA.

The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019 was signed into law by President Donald Trump on December 20, 2019. What does it mean to you?

Taxes are the price that regular people pay for government spending. Whether that spending goes to things and services that people want, like road repairs, schools, fire and police protection, trash pickup, public parks, or to things that people don’t really want, like sports stadiums or excessively lavish pension benefits for bureaucrats, the bill for all these things is ultimately paid through taxes.