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Executives and employees should have the same rights and obligations regarding their employer’s stock.
Plan sponsors and fiduciaries should ensure that individual account fees are reasonable.
Tax-preferenced retirement savings accounts, which receive a tax subsidy to provide retirement security, should exclude new types of unregulated investment products.
Fiduciary responsibility to plan participants must be steadfastly maintained.
Americans’ retirement income comes from several sources. For most, Social Security income is the foundation of financial security in retirement.
Any further efforts to address marriage penalties should be focused on two-earner couples and structured to avoid increasing marriage bonuses.
Policymakers should broaden the tax base by limiting tax preferences that do not efficiently achieve important policy goals.
Policymakers should limit the increasing number of taxpayers subject to the taxation of Social Security benefits to better protect the benefits of people who have no or limited additional retiremen
A progressive income tax is the preferred method of raising revenue at the federal and state levels. Other sources, such as a consumption tax, may be needed.
Due to their regressive nature, raising state and local sales taxes should not be the first choice for increasing tax revenues.