In the following video, senior advisor of The Motley Fool's Rule Your Retirement service Robert Brokamp takes a question from a Fool reader, who asks, "Can a retiree pay the income taxes owed on his/her tax-deferred retirement accounts using funds from a Roth IRA or Roth 401(k) and still have adequate resources remaining within those Roth accounts to have a comfortable retirement?"

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