If it's confiscated anyway, then it makes absolutely no difference if you buy, sell or watch re-runs of Oprah for that matter.
It has been widely suggested for the past two years that the govt. will probably start looking at the $14 trillion dollars in 401K's and IRA's. Probable outcome will be annuitizing this money, converting to new US Govt. Bonds paying 4% per year. It has alway's been suggested by financial planners that with a 4% drawdown per year you can overcome outlasting your money. Off course we all know that the bonds in the near future will be worthless, much like the billions of dollars in bonds outside of Dayton, Ohio that is in fact for Social Security. Need to buy more PM's, although the price is going down, in gold the premium is the same, and with silver what is available has a premium of 12-14%.