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To: Ish who wrote (72107)	1/12/2000 5:34:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Now if someone who was say 22 owned a home when the freeze was voted in were their assessments frozen too or did you have to be a geezer? No ish, I know you already know the answer to this, but one more time - they passed the tax freeze laws 20 years ago. SS taxes also started to climb 20 years ago. The people that are in their 60s now were in their 40s then, and they were just as greedy - the demographic shifts were well known at the time. Instead of focusing on the challenges of reforming SS and medicare so that an equitable solution could be had by all (which would certainly mean a cut to them) - they just passed a HUGE tax increase on to the new participants. My gut feeling is that you will never see that level of greed from the 20 and 30 year olds today. The current geezers were just a "gimme gimme" society all their lives, if you ask me.