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IRA Confiscation: It's Happening
Zerohedge ^ | 1/29/14 | Simon Black

Posted on 01/29/2014 1:04:11 PM PST by Kartographer

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To: NEMDF

It’s exactly the same as buying Savings Bonds through a payroll deduction. They’ll be administered by expanding the Department of Redundency Department...

Crazy. The Dems took us from Victory Bonds to Welfare Bonds in 75 years.


41 posted on 01/29/2014 5:47:05 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

And Bush got hammered because he dared to propose where you could put 10% of your FICA in an approved gov’t investment account??


42 posted on 01/29/2014 6:08:32 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral)
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To: Kartographer

If its an option that’s hardly confiscation. I went to the link and read it.

That would be like saying selling US treasuries are confiscation.

US treasuries have been booming the last few years because Uncle Sam can create $$$ to return the principle after a crash, hedge funds wont do that. They say ‘sorry your life savings are gone again, better luck next time. No one could have predicted this’


43 posted on 01/29/2014 11:47:52 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: Kartographer

If its an option that’s hardly confiscation. I went to the link and read it.

That would be like saying selling US treasuries are confiscation.

US treasuries have been booming the last few years because Uncle Sam can create $$$ to return the principle after a crash, hedge funds wont do that. They say ‘sorry your life savings are gone again, better luck next time. No one could have predicted this’


44 posted on 01/29/2014 11:47:52 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: Kartographer

But if Obama is doing it outside a law passed, there is a question as to if the worker/saver is legally entitled to their $$$ back.

Be skeptical of putting trust in exec actions.


45 posted on 01/30/2014 12:34:30 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: NEMDF
I consider myself to be somewhat knowledgable about IRAs, but don’t understand how this MyRA will be anything other than an excuse to have more government employees and interference.

MyIRA is just a defective version of the self-directed IRA that is already available to all who bother to open one. MyIra is defective because it mandates putting assets in a lousy investment — the USG. A self-directed IRA can invest in stocks, bonds, gold, etc., including foreign assets. Of course, if an IRA investor is a true believer, there is nothing (except his natural acquisitiveness) to stop him from using his IRA to emulate a MyIRA. But that would impoverish the investor and deprive the Won of a talking point.

IOW, Zero needed an extra bullet point for his 2014 SOTU, and MyIRA was it.

IRAs and 401Ks and their ilk should not exist. The tax rate should be such that they are not necessary.

46 posted on 01/30/2014 12:56:46 AM PST by cynwoody
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bkmk


47 posted on 01/31/2014 5:17:16 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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