Ayup. I started pulling from my conventional IRA as soon as I could, to start carving it down, to minimize the RMDs, to hold my total income down, so my Medicare premium is not increased.
I put the Tesla in my cash account. If it gains like Microsoft did over the next 10-20 years, I don’t want to be pulling all that loot out of the IRA and paying earned income rates on it.
Steve