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To Boost Retirement Savings, Stop Giving Tax Breaks on 401(k)s
Chris Farrell in Bloomberg Businessweek Link to more items from this source
[Opinion]
Apr. 19, 2013

"How about this idea instead: Repeal the tax break associated with 401(k)s, IRAs, and similar tax-sheltered plans. Substitute automatic enrollment for the subsidies. Eliminating the subsidy would boost the government's budget by some $100 billion a year.... Recent economic research strongly supports the policy shift. The main beneficiary of the different approach would be average workers."  MORE >>

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