Originally Posted by
Bottlen0se
There’s a strategy for everyone and not all strategies are equal, but me personally, if we saw a hypothetical 15-20% pay raise and 20% DC… I’m going all Roth in my 401k from there on out. Some don’t want to pay so much in taxes, I get that. But I’m not as pessimistic about Roths being taxed again later on as some people. I could see a scenario however where there is a cap on how much you can have in the Roth account. But with fluctuating asset values I’m not sure that’s even realistic. I’d pay all the taxes today. Max my 401k out, then back door what I can into mine and my wife’s Roth IRAs. Whatever I still have to invest goes into my kids 529s then normal brokerage account and acts as an easy access investment. I tinker with the real estate investment idea every now and then… a new contract may trigger me to go that route eventually too.
I think if they decided to tax high income Roth, I would think in the worse case scenario they'd only be about to tax the gains, not the contributions since they were already taxed.