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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (497206)	11/22/2003 11:20:09 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

My guess is that I am in your "age group" too. I do not consider myself to be a "baby boomer or older". I do not anticipate receiving anything in the way of entitlement benefits when I reach retirement age. I believe the major entitlement programs will be completely bankrupt by then, or they will have morphed into "welfare" programs instead of "entitlement" programs (and I will be considered "too wealthy" to qualify). You are correct that the younger age groups in this country have been ripped off by the older age groups. That is why people in the younger age groups should be especially skeptical of any politician claiming he/she wants to raise our taxes. "my aim is to get the baby boomers and olders to start paying their fair share for a change...": Unless we start having income tax brackets based on a person's age (an interesting concept now that I think about it!), how do you intend to accomplish this?