The proposal is for employers to make pensions available to their employees. There is no requirement for the employees to participate if they don't want to. So I don't understand the use of the word "mandated" to describe the IRA contributions.

By equalatarian I presume you mean egalitarian.

It would appear that this is a promotion of the concept of the economic equality of opportunity, something supported by Milton Friedman, vs the concept of the economic equality of outcomes. I think your characterization of this as communism would be a surprise to Friedman, who is pretty much in the free enterprise camp.

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