Politicians want to reform the 401(k). They should just kill it.

"While his lawmaker buddies want to drastically shrink how much a person can put into their individual retirement account each year, Trump is tweeting promises not to allow any such contraction in contribution limits. If the president wins this fight with his own party, he’ll likely get lauded in the mainstream press for sheltering the most well-known form of retirement saving from what looks, at a glance, like a hard-hearted policy."