Obama Is Eying Your Savings!

Obama Is Eying Your Savings!: Our Contributor Jim, living in a communist dictatorship, knows all to well how this pans out…

Remember when President Obama said "there comes a point when a person has earned enough"? Well, it should be a surprise that he also feels that people have saved more than they need for retirement. Mr. Obama has given new meaning to the word "arrogance".

With this scandal a day administration, it is no wonder some of their plans to get their hands on more of your money slip under the radar.

On Aril 12, 2013, the Wall Street Journal wrote:

How many times have you read financial-advice stories lecturing you to max-out on your IRA, save as much as you can in your 401(k), and even pay taxes now to change your regular IRA into a Roth IRA that will be tax-free until you die?

Well, be careful how much you save.

Assistant OpinionJournal.com editor Allysia Finley on President Obama's attack on tax deferred retirement accounts.

A lot of job-switchers are ignoring what may be one of the best options to get the most out of their retirement: Moving their savings into their new employer's 401(k). MarketWatch's Jim Jelter explains the benefits.

That's the message in President Obama's budget for fiscal 2014, which for the first time proposes to cap the amount Americans can save in these tax-sheltered investment vehicles. The White House explanation is that some people have accumulated "substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." So Mr. Obama proposes to "limit an individual's total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $ 205,000 per year in retirement, or about $ 3 million for someone retiring in 2013."

On April 14, 2013, the Independent Sentinel wrote:

THEY ARE COMING FOR YOU NEXT, make no mistake about that!. They already proposed it back in 2008. The government is on the hunt for more money to support its spending problem. President Obama wants more "revenue" – "taxes" – so he can make more "investments" as he spreads the wealth around.

You need to be afraid, very afraid!

Americans have $ 17.5 trillion in savings with 25% of it in IRA's. It is a future source of revenue for the government if they can get their hands on it.

President Barack Obama's Fiscal Year 2013 budget plan estimated that retirement tax deductions taken by employers and individuals over the next five years add up to $ 429 billion in "lost" tax revenue. The government believes your savings is their lost revenue.

See how that works? Because you take a legal tax deduction, the government is getting screwed. Never mind that the original idea was to give citizens an incentive to save. Further along in the Independent Sentinel article we find this:

In 2008, Obama first proposed a Guaranteed Retirement Account (GRA) for all, which would require businesses to offer automatic IRA's. Included would be a mandate to invest 10% in US Treasury bonds which is nothing but another sneaky way of funding the profligate national government.

Obama's FY 2013 budget plan resuscitates the planned theft of savings with "Secure Choice" and "GRA's" which would mandate 5% to 6% investment in government-controlled pension funds. Your savings will be invested in government pensions in addition to all the taxes you already pay for these pensions!

The scheme would go like this. The government would deposit $ 600 into your GRA and each worker would in turn deposit 5% of each paycheck into the account. In return, the government will magically guarantee a 3% tax-deferred return on these assets from who knows where because you know there will be no lockbox and they will spend the money just as they have with social security.

Anyone refusing to cooperate will suffer additional penalties and taxes on any withdrawal of their savings from retirement funds. They would be mandated into investing a minimum amount in US Treasury debt.

A Guaranteed Retirement Account (GRA).  That sounds good, right? A GRA is an annuity. Your 401 K is your savings with interest. When a retiree dies, the 401K becomes ppart of the persons estate. Under Obama's plan, when a retiree dies, the government gets what is left over. How sweet is that?

Of course the socialist trend setters are usually found across the big pond in Europe. And, the latest to jump on the gravy train is Poland:

(Reuters) – A Polish central bank policymaker has defended the government's decision to transfer more than half of private pension fund assets to the state, saying the move would give the economy a vital investment boost.

Anna Zielinska-Glebocka told Reuters Poland would not be able to reach potential growth levels of 3.0-4.0 percent, up from 0.8 percent, unless domestic demand reinforced the current main driver, exports.

"Changes to the pension system are positive and create a chance for an impulse, for a growth engine, in the form of investments that are so important. This will be helping the economy in 2014, although mostly in 2015," Zielinska-Glebocka said in comments made on Thursday and authorized for release on Saturday.

"Investments and consumption demand are key for the Polish economy. A healthy economy must be based on domestic demand, not just exports. From this perspective changes to pensions are a good move," she said.

A good move? Well, of course it is. The government will have more money to spend. President Obama must be salivating as he sees others doing what he wants to do. Redistributing wealth is just the starting point on the road to Obama's paradise. Eventually he wants to redistribute your savings, as well. Obama and his progressive followers won't be happy until all Americans are equally poor.

Well, that's what I'm thinking. What are your thoughts?

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