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The .46 Caliber Semi-Automatic Rifle
That Changed the World
American Thinker, by Michael Geer
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Posted By:magnante, 1/27/2013 5:30:16 PM
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| Behold the Girandoni air rifle, a 20 round high capacity tubular magazine and air reservoir which fired at roughly the same velocity as a modern .45 ACP. It can punch straight through a 2x4 at 100 yards. Invented by Tyrollean Bartholomaus Girandoni around 1779, this revolutionary rifle is four feet long and weighs a manly 10 pounds.(snip) Lewis and Clark carried the Girandoni across what would become America during their expedition and their journals state that of all they had with them the Girandoni was what both impressed natives
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/27/2013 5:36:41 PM (No. 9142920)
Folks, remember this the next time a leftist tries to claim that our Founders could not have possibly envisioned the weapons we have today and/or when they claim the Founders only thought about muskets when they wrote the Constitution.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ScarletPimpernel, 1/27/2013 5:49:01 PM (No. 9142950)
"Bring your heavy boots to bear on our Unalienable Rights to keep and bear arms and we will prevail simply by virtue of need overcoming tyranny. In short, when accumulated power gets too big for its britches, something unforeseen happens. Like when single shot cap and ball ran headlong into a repeating rifle that used air."
Fanatastic article! I had previously seen the linked video about the Girandoni air rifle -- "the perception of peace through power". It´s a wonderful story. This rifle allowed Lewis and Clark to complete their expedition, and gave us another page in history about the courage and ingenuity of the American people. We have stood up to tyranny before, and we will do it again.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Zarin, 1/27/2013 6:39:18 PM (No. 9143038)
Dang! Rate of fire is a big key in keeping one safe. Then for when supply is low there is NO NEED for gunpowder or reloading your old casings! And no smoke to give your position away!
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
glcinpdx, 1/27/2013 7:00:19 PM (No. 9143064)
#1, remember that muskets WERE the ´Assault Rifles´ of the day used by the military when the Constitution was adopted...Idiot Liberals and their idiotic arguments be damned.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
glcinpdx, 1/27/2013 7:11:40 PM (No. 9143074)
In the article there is a great link to a video from the National Firearms Museum regarding this rifle. Fascinating history and how Lewis and Clark used this weapon to project strength and maintain peace on their three year voyage.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bob913, 1/27/2013 7:20:02 PM (No. 9143084)
You can fire more than 1 arrow a second.
It is about control by the socialists who will one day announce you are going on a train ride to camp. A one way trip!
Look it up at youtube.
Fires 11 arrows before first hits the ground
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKY9FpRGyJI
Lady keeps firing while moving and hitting her target. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o9RGnujlkI
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab, 1/27/2013 7:22:00 PM (No. 9143086)
To be pedantically, technically, obsessively precise, it isn´t really semi-automatic. It is a bolt action repeater.
Still and all, pretty neat.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
novakid, 1/27/2013 9:10:27 PM (No. 9143242)
Today it would be modified to fire only six rounds on one (air) charge.
Would it be possible to issue some common sense? Guess not.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
FLCracker, 1/27/2013 9:33:36 PM (No. 9143265)
#6, AND.. they are both using simple re-curve bows. No pulleys for them!
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By his own standards,
Obama is ´self-delusional´
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/6/2013 9:03:24 AM
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It´s one thing for President Obama to be cocky and overstate his prowess at governing. People are used to politicians grabbing credit, and besides, you can always rationalize when it comes to explaining why things didn´t quite work out as you claimed they would - "the sequester ate my recovery" being the latest successful-enough example. But sports is something else. The basketball either goes through the hoop or it doesn´t. That´s why President Obama´s history of braggadocio regarding his prowess at hoops is having a potent effect on his overall public image, especially with those who are favorably inclined to him.
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Gays for Sharia?
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American Thinker, by Pamela Geller
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Posted By: magnante- 4/5/2013 9:10:00 AM
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Over at Salon, Chris Stedman, the Assistant Humanist Chaplain and the Values in Action Coordinator for the Humanist Community at Harvard, has published a vicious piece attacking me for calling attention to the persecution of gays under Islamic law. This comes just days after San Francisco´s Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution condemning my ads standing up for gays. Stedman and the transgender head of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, Theresa Sparks, could form a new organization: Gays for Sharia.
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Barry butches up with
comment on California AG
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/5/2013 9:08:13 AM
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During his two day flurry of fundraising in Northern California, the President of the United States took it upon himself (and allow to be released to the public - not all of his fundraising comments make it to the masses) to praise the attractiveness of Kamala Harris, California Attorney General (snip) The remark, predictably, generated a little of what Allahpundit called a ´Blue on blue food fight." I suspect that was the intention. The president´s image as a manly man took a beating when he missed 20 of 22 basketball shots, all recorded on video.
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Oh-oh! The dreaded i-word
starts attaching itself to Obama
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/4/2013 10:37:18 AM
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We have already seen Peak Obama; from here on, it´s going to get rougher and rougher for Barack Obama. Even worse, the one word he must fear the most has just been uttered by a man regarded as a bit of a truth-teller among liberal elites. Joe Klein, the celebrated author "Anonymous," who wrote the best selling, truth-telling book Primary Colors about the 1992 primary campaign that brought us President Bill Clinton, has made it ok for liberals to apply the word "incompetence" to the Obama administration. This represents something of a breakthrough. Until now, it has been taboo
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Where is Starbucks
Board of Directors?
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American Thinker, by Tom Trinko
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Posted By: magnante- 4/4/2013 9:44:12 AM
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The CEO of Starbucks basically told a shareholder that if the shareholder believes in traditional marriage he should dump his Starbucks stock. Historically the job of the CEO has been to make money and increase shareholder value. It would seem telling people who don´t share the CEO´s personal beliefs, whether it´s gay marriage or abortion, to dump the companies stock is not a pro-shareholder action. This is another example of the liberal belief that everything belongs to liberals because they´re just so darn much smarter than the rest of us
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The Coming Global Warming
Voter Backlash
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American Thinker, by Jonathon Miseley
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Posted By: magnante- 4/4/2013 8:40:29 AM
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News is breaking out all over: global warming stopped 20 years ago. A political earthquake has resulted from a feature story in the Economist magazine because the Economist used to be a consistent cheerleader for global warming activism. Doubts about global warming used to be censored by its London editors, one reporter confided to Stephen Hayward. So what will voters do to Democrat candidates in 2014 and 2016 when the former realize that the Democratic Party was lying to them? Is it time to run away from the issue for Democrats, journalists, and Hollywood personalities?
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Finally! School Choice
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/3/2013 10:24:03 AM
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The Great State of Indiana is about to test statewide school choice on a meaningful scale. This a major victory that has attracted little media attention at a time when the MSM narrative is focused on same sex marriage splitting the Republicans, and the inevitable tide of history sweeping away the evangelical wing of the GOP into the dustbin of history, or at least out of the its status as the party´s reliable base.
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It´s Almost 3 AM and
North Korea´s Calling
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: magnante- 4/3/2013 8:36:58 AM
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President Obama has a situation on his hands where charisma and media support do him no good. He is dealing with a nuclear-armed regime with a history of military attacks, provocations as a means of extortion, and brutality. (snip) In understanding the North Koreans, an unspoken factor that must be considered is that the North Koreans know they are phonies, that they carefully distort reality to impress the rest of the world with how successful they are, even in the midst of economic collapse and mass starvation. North Korea is a Potemkin country
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How Liberals Corrode Society
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American Thinker, by Christopher Chantrill
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Posted By: magnante- 4/2/2013 8:47:57 AM
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In the girl section of the Wall Street Journal last weekend Matt Ridley had an article on nice vs. nasty, cooperation vs. competition. Researchers have found, he writes, that families that stay together cooperate better than families that are far apart. This is not the first work to find mathematical evidence that there are conditions under which cooperative behavior drives out selfish behavior... So long as there is little geographic mobility, clusters of networked kin and friends develop, putting an advantage on being nice. Who knew?
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ObamaCare Bites
Unionized Educators
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American Thinker, by Eileen F. Toplansky
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Posted By: magnante- 4/1/2013 9:57:00 AM
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As the proverbial offal hits the fan, adjunct instructors and their union leaders are understandably panic-stricken as they finally realize the impact of ObamaCare on their livelihoods. Union representatives are now sending their members letters stating that "the Affordable Care Act [aka ObamaCare] has defined full time as anyone working over 30 hours a week or 130 hours a month." Many of these hardworking and well-meaning local labor representatives, who were duped -- I mean, told by the American Federation of Teachers Union (AFT) that Obama was the one who would bring all good things to pass
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A Tragic, Vicious Irony
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American Thinker, by Russ Vaughn
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Posted By: magnante- 4/1/2013 9:24:50 AM
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Mark Kelly, retired Navy fighter pilot and former astronaut, husband of former Congresswoman, Gabby Giffords, is much in the news right now as he pushes for stricter gun control across the country. He´s popping up on the tube everywhere and Internet stories about his gun-purchasing activities abound. While he´s the ideal spokesman for liberals, a former warrior who espouses stricter gun control legislation, there´s a good deal of criticism building out there in the blogosphere.
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We Are Living in
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Rushlimbaugh.com, by Rush Limbaugh
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 4:53:10 PM
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RUSH: Folks, I don´t know how else to categorize this. We are living in a dying country. I don´t know how else to categorize what´s happening -- 88,000 new jobs. The unemployment rate, because of a terrible statistic, is down to 7.6%. The number of people in this country who are not working is shameful. Ninety million Americans are no longer in the workforce. Ninety million. People not in the labor force grew by 663,000, and now 90 million. That´s the labor force participation rate. This is 1979 levels.
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Why Obama´s ´Best-Looking Attorney
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The Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta
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Posted By: Oblio- 4/6/2013 6:51:15 AM
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Hillary Clinton Would Not
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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent
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Obama critic apologizes for
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,
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´My bangs are getting
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Daily Mail (UK), by Margot Peppers
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Posted By: pineledger- 4/7/2013 7:43:42 AM
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Michelle Obama has admitted that she is already tired of the bangs she first sported in January. The First Lady said in an interview with Entertainment Tonight: ´Bangs are a day-by-day proposition. They´re starting to grow out, get a little irritating.´ Still, she hasn´t let her hairdo woes get her down. ´It´s okay,´ she said after her initial complaint. ´We´ll be good.´ The first indication that her hairstyle was becoming a burden came about last weekend, when Malia, 14, was spotted adjusting her mother´s hair during the White House Easter Egg Roll.
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Hillary Clinton: The clock is turning
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Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 3:25:20 PM
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained to the Women in the World summit in New York today that the clock is turning back for women in America. Clinton praised her own mother for helping empower her to success and marveled at the opportunities that her own daughter Chelsea has pursued. But Clinton warned that there is still so much to do to promote women´s rights in America. "As I look at all these young women that I am privileged to work with, or know through Chelsea, and its hard to imagine turning the clock on them," Clinton said.
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White House Blames Jobs
Numbers on Sequester
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Wynton Hall
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/5/2013 8:02:58 PM
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The Obama White House is scrambling to blame Friday’s abysmal March jobs numbers on the sequester’s trimming of the rate of growth in federal budgets that have yet to fully commence. After the Labor Department announced that a mass exodus of 663,000 workers left the U.S. workforce last month and that job creation fell 112,000 jobs short of projections, Obama’s top economic adviser Alan B. Krueger, took to the White House blog to blame the sequester: It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look
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The Deafening Silence that
Signals Our Demise
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Townhall, by Diana West
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Posted By: Drive- 4/5/2013 11:56:32 AM
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Get ready for the last straw. First, though, I´d like to suggest that anyone reading this column in a local newspaper or news site pat the editor on the back for publishing what in our neo-medieval world of fear amounts to a forbidden column. Yup, I am about to say something about the Great Barack Obama Identity/Eligibility Scandal again. I know that this is one rich and urgent topic that doesn´t see the light of day in certain so-called news outlets -- and I say that from the experience of watching my own syndicated columns
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Trayvon Martin´s parents
settle wrongful death claim
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Orlando Sentinel, by Rene Stutzman
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 3:15:25 PM
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SANFORD - Trayvon Martin´s parents have settled a wrongful death claim for an amount believed to be more than $1 million against the homeowners association of the Sanford subdivision where their teenage son was killed. Their attorney, Benjamin Crump, filed that paperwork at the Seminole County Courthouse, a portion of which was made public today. In the five pages of the settlement that were available for public review, the settlement amount had been marked out. Lower in the agreement, the parties specified that they would keep that amount confidential. When asked during an earlier interview whether the amount was
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Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba
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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad
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Posted By: Fiesta del sol- 4/6/2013 8:20:04 AM
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for
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Obama Budget to Cap Retirement
Accounts at $3 Million
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Tony Lee
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/5/2013 9:40:39 PM
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The budget President Barack Obama will submit on April 10 will contain a proposal that would prohibit individuals from accumulating more than $3 million in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) and tax-preferred retirement accounts. According to a White House statement, the Obama administration believes the current rules allow some wealthy individuals "to accumulate many millions of dollars in these accounts, substantially more than is needed to fund reasonable levels of retirement saving." "The budget would 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
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