Issues

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.

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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.

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Death & Taxes Poem

Tax his cow, tax his goat, Tax his pants, tax his coat, Tax his crops, tax his work, Tax his ties, tax his shirt. Tax his tractor, tax his mule, Teach him …

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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.

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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.

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Statement Of Jim Martin, President, 60 Plus Association On Importation Of Prescription Drugs

The 60 Plus Association is very concerned with recent amendments to the FY2001 Agriculture Appropriations bill that would allow pharmacies and wholesalers to purchase prescription drugs outside the United States and then import them into this country for sale.

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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.

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Poll On Social Security Reveals: Widespread Support For ‘Personalized’ Accounts

The 60 Plus Association commissioned Kellyanne Fitzpatrick and the polling company to conduct a nationwide telephone survey of 800 registered voters on the subject of Social Security and personal retirement accounts.

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Personalizing Social Security: Unplugging The Third Rail

Delivered at a seminar sponsored by the 60 Plus Association on the 62nd anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act, Washington, D.C., August 14, 1997

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60 Plus Vice President Hank Hough Testifies Before The House Subcommittee On Social Security To Eliminate The Earnings Limits

When I came to Washington as a newspaper reporter in 1962, John F. Kennedy was in the White House, Neal Armstrong had not yet walked on the moon, Strom Thurmond was a Democrat and the problems with Social Security were perceived by few, other than Barry Goldwater.

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