“the government SPENDS as much as $80 billion on tax breaks” Spends?
Apparently, in the thief's mind, failure to steal is the equivalent of spending.
That caught my eye too.
This upside-down thinking reveals the reporter's Leftist view of your retirement money: It's not something you worked and saved for and that belongs to you individually.
No, it's "wealth" that needs to be "spread" -- first via taxes and then ultimately by being thrown into the collective retirement pool.