Do you have SPECIFIC items that I can write my Congress-critter about? I have heard these fears and seen the attempts in Europe, but do not know of any details here.
Having moved everything into IRAs and then moving chunks into Roths, this is my great fear, that the VAMPIRES of Congress will, ONCE AGAIN, rob the ants to feed the grasshoppers! After all, was that not what they did with the Chrysler Bond holders?
Below is a link to an early warning about the rats planning to tax 401ks, I posted in October of last year.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2114880/posts
Go to the key word 401k to see other articles posted like this one: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176111/posts
A friend, who is a good predictor of rats, says that the hits that our 401ks/iras took during the meltdown kept this from happening.