‘Fine-Tuning’ the Medicare Surtax
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So the Administration wants the catastrophic care legislation left untouched because the tax revenues generated thereby will help reduce the budget deficit. What this amounts to is a new tax on seniors only to pay for a program that only a small number will ever use in order to save the federal budget from breaching spending limits.
Read my lips on “No new taxes”--ha!
JEANETTE YOUNG
Los Olivos
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