Praise For The Long Overdue Prescription Drug Benefit
Jim Martin, at a counter rally to an event organized on Capitol Hill by MoveOn.org, criticized the group while praising the long overdue prescription drug benefit. There’s an old saying that a lie can travel half way around the world before the truth can get its shoes on. Well the truth has now arrived.
Seniors’ Honcho Turns 70
60 Plus Association founder and president, Jim Martin, turns 70 years young today. Martin said, “A wise man once said old is someone 15 years older than you are. How true. When I was 30, I thought 45 was old. When I was 45, I thought 60 was old. Now I believe 85 is old, or rather, never old, just old-er.”
Seniors Advocacy Group Calls On Congress To Abandon “Windfall Profits” Provisions In Tax Reconciliation Bill
60 Plus Association urged leaders in Congress to remove a “windfall profits” tax provision from the Budget Reconciliation Bill, now on its way into conference committee.
Is The Answer Blowin’ In A Windfall Tax?
Virginia’s new governor, Tim Kaine, a “new Democrat” with his party’s old penchant for taxing and spending, spent much of his response to the president’s State of the Union address urging Big Oil to “share in our sacrifice” by forfeiting “excess profits.”
Reception Celebrates 60 Plus Honorary Chairman’s 4th Book!
60 Plus Association’s dynamic and forever young Honorary Chairman, Roger Zion (R-IN, 1967-75), 84 years old going on 44, moved back to Evansville, Indiana to take life a bit easier. Instead he wrote his fourth book, The Amazing Adventures of Congressman Roger Zion.
Pat Boone Celebrates 50 Years In Show Business…
Pat Boone cranked out his first No. 1 hit record — a cover of Fats Domino’s “Ain’t That a Shame” — in 1955. He’s been at it ever since, notching 61 hits and earning himself a spot on Billboard magazine’s list of the top 10 best-selling recording artists of all time. Jim Martin, head honcho of national seniors’ group 60 Plus, was effusive in his praise of Boone who became the group’s national spokesperson in 2003. “I couldn’t be more proud of Pat’s accomplishment as a milestone showman if he were my own son!”
Help Katrina Victims: Abolish Death Tax
Statement 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.”
To The House Of Lords: Kill The Death Tax
Today, 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.
107 Year Old “Temporary Tax” Must Go!
Statement By 60 Plus Association President, Jim Martin “On behalf of the 60 Plus Association and senior citizens all across America, I am calling upon the 109th Congress to do what should have been done decades ago — the immediate and total repeal of the highly regressive ‘tax on talking’.”
Democrat, Republican Join Forces To Help Revamp Social Security
Sam Beard was in the room when the president of the United States made the pitch for Social Security reform. “He looked everyone in the eye and said the program is going to die,”Beard said. “He said to save Social Security, we are going to have to take major new steps.” That exchange took place in November 1998, and the president was Bill Clinton, not George W. Bush. Given the time and opportunity, Beard believes Clinton would have sought changes similar to those the president proposed earlier this year.
