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context: Under the new provisions, workers who make up to $71,000 a year will get a matching contribution from the government when they save through a workplace retirement plan. That contribution would be deposited into the retirement accounts and could not be withdrawn without penalty.
  
  As in a 100% match? If so, that's  huge.
  EDIT: apparently not but still a nice sum. See replies below. >
  
  Why 71k Yeesh what about everybody else >
  
  It's much lower than that for income thresholds.
  If you are single, it starts phasing out at 20,500 and completely phases out by 35,500.
  71k is only for married couples, but for the full match, you need to make less than 41k as a married couple.
  Also, I believe it's a 50% match, with a max of 1,000.  Not a 100% match. >
  
  Better reform would require the SS tax apply to all income so that the Musks, Trumps and Bezos who pay little to no income tax (another problem) would pay in to the SS and Medicare systems. >
  
  Agreed that the income caps need to be lifted. That would probably save SS and Medicare from the majority of the funding issues as it currently stands, if not completely eradicate them. >
  
  Most of us know retirement will never happen. >
  
  
  Most of us know retirement will never happen.
  
  I work for a retirement company and I know I'm not going to be able to retire until I'm at least 73. >
  
  Wow >
  
  Retirement in this country is a lie.  They want everyone to work up until the second they die. The US has been raising the retirement age even as life expectancy is decreasing in this country.  Things like “pensions” scarcely exist anymore as they did for our parents and grandparents.  The US is a shithole country full of grifters and morons that vote against their interests in favor of more tax breaks for the wealthy. I look upon my fellow citizens with nothing but contempt these days. >
  
  Hey you ain't lookin' so good yourself there bub