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100 Days: ‘Golden Era For Senior Citizens’

60 Plus Association President Jim Martin labeled the President’s first 100 days as launching ‘a golden era for senior citizens’ by his policies.

Kill The Death Tax. Kill It, Don’t Wound It

The 60 Plus Association hails the 274-154 vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal the death tax. Way back in 1993, 60 Plus founded the Coalition to Kill the Death Tax. Our battle cry was kill it, don’t wound it.

Seniors Hail Passage Of Bush Tax Cut

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.”

Death Tax Should Be Laid To Rest

It is all but certain that the American people are finally going to get some sort of tax relief. Thanks to the election of a new president and the diffident blessing of the head of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan, the debate on Capitol Hill is not if there is going to be a tax cut, but rather how much it will be.

Taxing Cadavers Is Gross Public Policy

“Accelerating the R.I.P. date for the death tax would be the most beneficial boost I know of to a slowing economy and to the lives of countless mom and pop businesses and farmers all across America,” says 60 Plus President, Jim Martin.

AARP: Association Against Retired Persons

By James L. Martin The American Association of Retired Persons (or AARP) is the eight hundred pound gorilla of associations supposedly representing senior citizens. In actuality, the organization is a huge fraud …

Seniors Group Endorses Bush Prescription Drug Plan

The 60 Plus Association strongly endorsed Governor George W. Bush’s plan unveiled today to provide seniors with prescription drug and other improved benefits and criticized Gore for his seven year silence.

Vice President Gore Gets “Religion” on Social Security Trust Fund

60 Plus Association Chairman, Jim Martin, stated that “Vice President Al Gore has suddenly gotten religion when it comes to the Social Security Trust Fund.” Mr. Gore’s pledge to ‘shore up and protect the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds’ with a lock box clearly rings hollow.

Personalizing Social Security

At a fourth forum on Saving Social Security sponsored by the 60 Plus Association, Association President Jim Martin declared partial privatization of the retirement system “the wave of the future”, as Social Security turned 65 years old.

Republican-Led 106th Congress Wins Designation As Most “Senior Friendly” Congress In 40 Years

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.