Seniors hail passage of Bush tax cuts. 60 Plus Association Chairman, Jim Martin, states, “Tax cuts benefit all of society but particularly senior citizens who live on fixed incomes.”

President of the 60 Plus Association, the excited political speakers, high school band and overflow crowd at the airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., the Sunday before the November 7 election, stirred vivid memories of 32 years before. At similar rallies throughout the Sunshine State, Martin had watched his boss and mentor, conservative Rep. (1962-68) Ed Gurney, campaign to become Florida’s first Republican U.S. Senator since Reconstruction.

The 60 Plus Association will announce at the Republican Party’s 2000 Convention in Philadelphia that it has designated the 106th Congress as the most “senior friendly” in 40 years.

Today is a “Super Friendly Day” for Seniors. Hailing the vote to repeal the 33% depression-era tax imposed on seniors as a “super friendly day for seniors,” 60 Plus Association President Jim Martin said, “This is as super friendly as it gets.”

Hailing the expected Senate vote to repeal the 33% depression-era tax as a “super friendly day for seniors,” 60 Plus Association President Jim Martin praised Senator John Ashcroft (R-MO) for authoring S. 2074, The Social Security Earnings Test Elimination Act.

“As head of a non-partisan, national senior citizens’ organization, I reacted with cautious optimism when I heard President Clinton propose prescription drug coverage for all seniors,” says Jim Martin, President of the 60 Plus Association. “That caution was tempered and shaped by nearly four decades in this political town.”

Long before he was twice elected governor of his state and boomed for the Republican presidential nomination, well before he was his father’s political trouble-shooter in residence, and even before he made his maiden political voyage as a losing candidate before Congress from Texas in 1978, George W. Bush cut his political eye-teeth as a travel aide for a winning U.S. Senate campaign in Florida.