IIRC, that line of thinking came along with Hillary’s Health Care initiative. Give the government your retirement and let them take care of you. But she did at one time call for a flat out taking of 10-15% of the funds out there to get the Health Care ball rolling.
Not just HillaryCare. She even tried to BS Trump.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/13/this-professor-says-it-is-time-to-kill-your-401k.html
This professor says it’s time to kill your 401(k)
Published Sun, Jan 15 2017
Tom Anderson
@bytomanderson
She wants to kill your 401(k)
Emily Cadei
3/16/2015