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Death Tax
60 Plus Monthly Update: Late Summer 2011In this issue:
August 17, 2011 | Read more… A Death Tax “Compromise”?Democrats and Republicans compromise on death tax rates for two years(Alexandria, VA) – Yesterday Democrats and Republicans reached a potential agreement on various tax issues. What President Obama failed to emphasize in his speech is that he is delaying the big discussion on the death tax another two years. December 7, 2010 | Read more… The Man Who Put Death Taxes on the Mapby John Gizzi (more by this author)Posted 07/25/2010 A standing-room-only crowd jammed the Liaison Hotel on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 15 to honor James L. Martin for his 50 years of political activism. Martin has long been the out-spoken president of 60 Plus, a seniors association that has been the premier force behind the drive to abolish the estate tax. Much of the modern movement against the tax is due to Martin, who has mobilized tens of thousands of angry seniors through his association, campaigned tirelessly for congressional opponents of the tax and coined the phrase that captured its essence: “death tax.” Referring to his days after graduating from Yale in 1968 when he was a staffer on the winning U.S. Senate race of conservative Republican Ed Gurney in Florida, George W. Bush, in a filmed tribute recalled how he was hired by Gurney’s right-hand man Jim Martin. July 26, 2010 | Read more… Taxes, Taxes And More TaxesThe 60 Plus Association heartily endorses the Republican Study Committee’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights. March 21, 2007 | Read more… Help Katrina Victims: Abolish Death TaxStatement By 60 Plus Association President Jim Martin As Estate Tax Repeal Vote Is Postponed: “I believe the Senate was wise to postpone a vote on repeal of the death tax.” September 12, 2005 | Read more… To The House Of Lords: Kill The Death TaxToday, the U.S. Senate is poised to either drive a stake through the heart of the most confiscatory tax ever enacted or to go wobbly and allow this cruel, job-robbing, anti-growth estate tax to live on in infamy. September 6, 2005 | Read more… Seniors Salute SessionsSenior citizens salute Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and the more than 20 co-sponsors he has for the Jobs Protection and Estate Tax Reform Act of 2005. May 10, 2005 | Read more… |
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