Cato Podcast

Obama's Odd myRA Proposal

Mar 5, 2014 · 7 min · 6.8 MB
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The President’s myRA proposal aimed at helping low-income Americans save for retirement seems to have missed a key element of helping low-income people save more: the tax break provided by traditional IRAs. The myRA proposal doesn’t provide that break and, says Jagadeesh Gokhale, that makes it an inapt savings vehicle for people with low incomes.

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