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341: Money with Katie’s Middle-Class Myths and The Great Roth vs. 401K Debate

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Is That Really Unchallengeable?

Politically it's very unpopular to raise tax brackets marginal rates for the middle class and lower. So I would point to that just like kind of the political incentive to keep taxes low in the popular brackets. The other thing is, your income today and the income that you are putting into the Roth account is being taxed at your highest marginal tax rate now when you're being taxed top down. And so the marginal rates would actually have to rise quite substantially for your effective rate later that is bottom up to be competitive with the top.

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