Better hope the tax code does not change to a flat sales tax model in the future. If so, you will have pre-paid taxes on your Roth, i.e. put in money post tax and then pay again when you use the money later in the form of a sales tax.

Even this story is patently wrong. "and according to estimates there aren't even enough nickels in circulation anyway"? Whose estimate? A quick search of the US Mint website  shows they made 1.74 billion nickels in 2005 alone, another 1.44 billion in 2004. Maybe hard to round up 20 billion nickels but certainly there a...more

Mine got 50mpg in 1977.  Frankly, I have no idea why 31 years later they now get about half of that mileage.  Even the new and very similarly sized Honda Fit gets 28 city/34 highway mpg!!  ****?  100 MPG certainly has been possible for many years, just not implemented.  Just my opinion.