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Elizabeth Warren’s Deceptive Over-the-Counter Hearing-Aid Bill

Jim Martin’s Op-Ed in the National Review: It pretends to help consumers but instead misleads them to help big business. The ongoing debate over Obamacare repeal is the talk of the town …

Thanks to Mexican dumping, you can say aloha to Hawaiian sugar

By James Martin | May 30 Those of us of a certain age have a real attachment with Hawaii. We defended her when Japan attacked. We celebrated when she officially became a …

It’s time to kill the death tax once and for all

By Jim Martin and Pat Boone opinion contributors – 05/15/17 02:00 PM EDT While on the campaign trail candidate Donald Trump minced no words when he promised that, “The Trump plan will …

Medical Malpractice “Reform”: Encroachment On Essential Liberties

Medical Malpractice “Reform”: Encroachment On Essential Liberties | The Daily Caller By Jim Martin, Chairman of 60 Plus Association More than 30 States already have some form of cap on damages in …

ICYMI: Republicans can save Medicare, again an Op-Ed by Chairman Jim Martin

Democrats like to talk about saving Medicare and healthcare access for seniors from greedy Republicans even as they support policies that decimate the program and make it ever more difficult for seniors …

ICYMI: Senator Charles Schumer’s fake ‘War on Seniors’ an Op-Ed by Chairman Jim Martin

New York Sen. Charles Schumer is a desperate man. Now that he’s taken over a group of skittish Senate Democrats, he and they are terrified about their prospects in the first mid-term election of …

Boone & Martin Respond to Washington Post on Death Tax

The following is a response from 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin and 60 Plus National Spokesperson Pat Boone to Robert Samuelson’s op-ed in the April 27, Washington Post in support of the …

Wind Energy Subsidies Help the Rich, Hurt the Poor

Opinion by 60 Plus President Amy Frederick, Published in the Chillicothe Gazette (Ohio), November 29, 2014 Though President Obama’s name appears nowhere on the ballot for this Fall’s momentous midterm elections, he …

JFK 50 Years Later: Reflections from 60 Plus Chairman Jim Martin

The eyes of Washington’s power brokers, once so confident and assured now seemed lost, aware that the world they knew would never return. The feeling inside the Capitol Rotunda could only be …

Taxpayer dollars wasted on mail order drugs

By Jim Martin and David Williams The Hill June 24, 2013 Health care costs are on the rise and this increase will affect employers, employees and taxpayers through Medicare Part D, the …