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>> female volunteers. >> speaking of volunteers, vera gibbons is volunteering to be on our program today. she's a personal finance director. >> write it off. >> men are selfish. >> that is -- >> definitely. >> that's not -- >> that's not taxes. >> you're not dr. laura, ok? >> vera, we've had a whole bunch of people e-mail with questions. today is april 17th, it's tax day. here's a question from maria. my husband is 68. i am 57. can we put money into an i.r.a. today to avert any taxes we have to pay? our tax bill is $3,000. all right. what can she do? >> that tax bill is not too much. the maxim...

Yourself tonight, and enjoy your time, david cooper, it has been an honor to have you on to talk to all of us. congratulations on the achievements and the recipient of the distinguished award. >> thank you, thomas. when we talk about the snowe, it is the snowe extreme. we called it the poly-sci sideb sidebar, olympia snowe calling it quits, because of the polarization in the senate. and democrats are hoping to pick up the seat, and hoping to keep a soon to be vacant seat in nebraska. sep or the bob kerrey will reportedly announce that he wants the job back. three weeks ago kerry said he woul...

I had a chance to speak with sep or the santorum, and is this payback and stuff like that, and is this mccain's payback? >> right, right. >> because you don't get along and he didn't want to get into that, but the mccain decision to endorse mitt romney in part is because mccain has no great love for santorum who all of the sudden has emerged as the majorer or one of the major challengers to mitt romney. >> is this a pragmatic move on the part of republicans to let's all get behind and this is guy we believe will beat obama? >> i think it will help mitt romney, because especially in south carol...

then she has tumbled, tumbled in a pretty intense way in the polls. it's really unclear why because she has at least at the beginning she had done pretty well in debates. she had been here campaigning very hard. she, like rick santorum at the end of this campaign, was around the state. she did all 99 counties. guess what, she was even born here. she was born in water loo, iowa. she is a native daughter of the state. she did not do very well. very disappointing. at the end of the day, suzanne, you know this. you've covered many campaigns. you need money to go on. if you're not doing w...

With respect to seps, there is an extension. employees can adopt sep plans up until the filing of their tax return for the business, which could be until september of 2011, depending on the particular facts of the situation. the deadline for conversion for 2010 has, in fact, passed. but you can convert at any time in order to have the amounts treated as post tax. that means that the full amount in the i.r.a. would be taxable in the year of conversion. but when the money would come out, the increment thereon, the interest, would be fully tax free. that is why people make the conversion. >> okay...