Obama might be getting ready to EO your taxes

"White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest confirmed Monday that President Obama is "very interested" in the idea of raising taxes through unilateral executive action.

"The president certainly has not indicated any reticence in using his executive authority to try and advance an agenda that benefits middle class Americans," Earnest said in response to a question about Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) calling on Obama to raise more than $100 billion in taxes through IRS executive action."

Excuse me.  But It was my understanding that ALL Taxes had to be initiated through the House of Representatives.

Am I wrong?

"How many times have you read financial-advice stories lecturing you to max-out on your IRA, save as much as you can in your 401(k), and even pay taxes now to change your regular IRA into a Roth IRA that will be tax-free until you die?

Well, be careful how much you save.

That's the message in President Obama's budget for fiscal 2014, which for the first time proposes to cap the amount Americans can save in these tax-sheltered investment vehicles. The White House explanation is that some people have accumulated "substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." So Mr. Obama proposes to "limit an individual's total balance across tax-preferred accounts to an amount sufficient to finance an annuity of not more than $205,000 per year in retirement, or about $3 million for someone retiring in 2013." 

SO if you are planning for your retirement in a responsible fashion, you are going to be penalized for it.

I"m sorry Mr President, you have alrdy shown that YOU and your advisers can't choose a winning financial plan if your lives depended on it.

I'd much rather trust my own judgement as to what I want to invest in and how much I wish to invest.

For you to come along and change the rules now smacks of imperialism and dictatorial assumption of powers not Constitutionally allowed.