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Issues The 60 Plus Association gets involved in a number of issues of concern or that affect America’s seniors. Among those issues:
Read more about our efforts below, or click each of the categories above for more info on our work on each of those specific issues. The Galen Institute and the 60 Plus Association invite you to join us in Springfield, VA, on September 16
August 31, 2010 | Read more… CNNMoney profile: Why I took Social Security earlyToday CNNMoney posted an article highlighting the lives of 7 seniors (including two 60 Plus members!) who chose to file for their Social Security benefits earlier than planned. August 18, 2010 | Read more… Senior citizen group plans attacks on Roy HerronBy: Chas Sisk The 60 Plus Association, a group for senior citizens that bills itself as the conservative alternative to the AARP (national spokesman: Pat Boone), says it’s planning to spend the strangely specific sum of $221,636 on issue ads attacking state Sen. Roy Herron, the expected Democratic nominee to represent the 8th Congressional District. The ads will start running the day after the primary, Friday, Aug. 6. August 3, 2010 | Read more… Seniors’ group raises alarm on unapproved drugsBy Julian Pecquet The 60 Plus Association — known as “the conservative alternative to the AARP” — is launching an awareness campaign regarding unapproved drugs in the marketplace. July 27, 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… Using the Gulf oil spill to raise taxesby Jim MartinThe Daily Caller While many Gulf residents continue to suffer from the fallout of the oil spill disaster, it appears that others are viewing the tragedy as a stroke of good fortune. The Deepwater Horizon incident has served as an impetus for environmentalists to ram through liberal policies in Congress. Left-wing groups have manipulated the facts in an effort to impose huge tax increases on American businesses and consumers. July 22, 2010 | Read more… Connolly’s Attempts to Overhaul Health Programs Bad For Federal EmployeesJuly 19, 2010 by Jim MartinFiled under Editorials / Opinion, Top Headlines Originally published in the Culpeper Times Now that Congress has rammed through health reform, several Members, including Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-VA), serving the 11th district, have wasted no time identifying another program to “reform,” broken or not. Unfortunately, it seems that the Federal Employees Health Benefit’s Program (FEHBP) has landed in their crosshairs in the form of bill HR 4489. July 22, 2010 | Read more… |
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