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Originally Posted by La literatura
If we had a consumption tax, I would be criticizing the government for allowing such a travesty and injustice onto the American people. Fortunately, we don't.
My statement wasn't a "kind of praise," though the 401k scheme seem fine to me. It was a statement of fact: 401k plans are products of governmental legislation. Asking government to get out of it seems to miss that point.
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I don't think it misses that point at all. I think that point is pretty irrelevant. The government could have created a 401K with any degree of government micromanagement or none at all. Preferring a more hands off approach is no more hypocritical (as you seemed to imply in post 7) than preferring a heavily micromanaged approach.
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Obamacare’s fix for an American health care system that the federal government long ago broke, is to give the federal government far more power over American health care; that its solution to escalating health costs is to mandate greater health benefits (and, hence, higher costs); and that its solution to the pricey overreliance on pre-paid health plans — offered by insurance companies in lieu of real insurance — is to have the government require Americans to buy those pre-paid health plans under penalty of law.