Tag: President Obama

Elderly couple looking at finances on a coomputer

The President has done what he can, now Congress needs to auto-enroll everyone. The MyRA (My Retirement Account), which the President proposed in the State of the Union, addresses the most serious problem in our retirement system – at any moment in time only 42 percent of private sector workers (age 25-64) participate in any…

Warren Buffett sitting with President Barack Obama at the White House in July 2011

Warren Buffett has been making the point whenever possible that he pays a smaller percent of his income to the federal government than his secretary.  President Obama regularly incorporates the plight of Mr. Buffet and his secretary into his speeches.  The problems with Mr. Buffet’s statement are twofold: 1) his tax situation is not representativ…