re: Various Financial Questions

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The advantage to a Roth IRA is that you pay no tax on the earnings and the appreciation of the account. If you're a young man, it makes sense to pay the tax up front on your contributions and then pay no tax on the accumulated earnings for 30-40 years. I wish I had had that option when I was younger.

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The rules for rolling money into a Roth IRA are somewhat complicated. For one thing, you need to come up with the amount of the income tax out of pocket and not from the account itself. I think I would look at either leaving the money where it is or rolling it into another 401K and then opening a new Roth IRA and making your future contributions to it.

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