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Who is Teresa Ghilarducci? Clue: She and the Democrats want to seize your 401k plans.
Jackson Jambalaya ^ | October 27, 2008 | Kingfish

Posted on 10/27/2008 3:38:17 PM PDT by prplhze2000

Although unknown to most Americans, Teresa Ghilarducci is the intellectual godmother for the Democrats' plans to radically change how Americans save for retirement. Ms. Ghilarducci, an economist at The New School for Social Research, called for the abolition of the tax breaks given to employers for 401k plans and instead proposed the mandatory enrollment of American employees in Government Retirement Accounts (GRA's) that are funded by a 5% mandatory payroll deduction in her book, When I'm 64: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them, published last year.

Ms. Ghilarducci outlined her proposals in a briefing paper nearly a year ago: "The plan calls for all workers not enrolled in an equivalent or better defined-benefit pension to enroll in a GRA, a plan that borrows the best features of defined-benefit and defined-contribution plans, including guaranteed retirement benefits that last a lifetime, low administrative costs, and steady contributions. With GRAs, workers will accumulate savings in investment funds that earn a rate of return guaranteed by the federal government. These funds will be converted to life annuities upon retirement. Along with Social Security benefits, these will replace approximately 70% of pre-retirement earnings for the typical retiree....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 401k; democrats; ghilarducci; plan; retirement
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To: prplhze2000

5% withholding sounds like the Obabanation will be raising taxes after all.


21 posted on 10/27/2008 6:14:18 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Vote Obama: Get more stuff!)
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To: Swing_Thought

This could be the actual LOCKBOX? (gasp)


22 posted on 10/28/2008 1:06:04 AM PDT by machogirl (when the call comes at 3:00 am, what if the teleprompter is broken?)
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To: PapaBear3625
Teresa Ghilarducci

Guilty!

23 posted on 11/18/2008 5:01:27 PM PST by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President)
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