DesideriScuri -> RE: Obama knows best (4/8/2013 4:25:45 PM)
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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri But, that isn't the point, either. Is Government going to come out and tell us that we don't need to make more than $1M/year in salary and benefits? There is supposed to be a limit on the authority of the Federal Government. There is no authority within the Constitution for the Government to put a cap on the amount of money you "need" for retirement. If they can tell you the cap is $3M, after which you lose the tax break, what's to stop them from increasing the tax level over and above removing the break? Or, lowering that cap #? What is Government's next step in raising revenue if everyone that this effects stops saving more than $3M? Sorry but you are using the ludicrous to try and make a point in the realistic. The next step should be increase in taxes, reduction in spending, decrease the import deficit, and grow the GNP but all of that takes a lot of steps. The government has the authority given to them by the people to do these things. I am not going to argue the right or wrong of it, as I am being specific to the point of a cap on tax deferment of IRA's. What makes my hypothetical ludicrous? The top tax brackets in 1944 and 1945 were 91% levied on incomes of $200k or more (FY2011 $2.54M and $2.3M, respectively). Essentially, it was as if the Federal Government was telling the Citizens that they weren't allowed to make a lot more than $2.54M/$2.3M a year. It wasn't a strict cap, (because of that 9% you got to keep), so, it was a leaky cap. What's so ludicrous about that happening again?
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