[bmwcyle]

Take my money and civil war starts.

[Renegade]

I’m with you !

[Niteranger68]

Take my money and civil war starts.

Roger that!

[bestintxas]

“Take my money and civil war starts.”

They have been carefully crafting that monies collected by the feds are “theirs”, not yours. Things like “can we afford tax cuts” are designed to indoctrinate people to believe that the govt has legitimate claim to money(When actually it is not theirs but ours).

When it comes to the 401k and to IRAs, their premise is that if taxes have not been collected on them, they are not “yours” yet, so they see a legitimate claim to it.

That’s why it is better to have it “after-tax” rather than “pre-tax”.

I am 59 1/2 in 4 months and will pull as much as I can out of 401k.