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Published - Sunday, July 29, 2007

Letter: Repeal tax on Social Security benefits

You now pay taxes on 85% of your Social Security benefits, which means you’re paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars more than you should.

You and I fork over $7 billion a year, as does every other American taxpayer, in taxes on Social Security benefits, so that greedy politicians can waste your hard-earned money on useless pork barrel projects like $1.7 million on the International Fertilizer Development Association, and too many more to mention.

It’s time to repeal and clean up the 1993, biggest-in-history Bill Clinton tax hike rammed through Congress, that Liberals Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy and others support, saying Social Security taxes only take from the rich. Does $25,000 sound rich to you? That’s after you start earning $25,000 kicks in?

We shouldn’t have to pay and pay years after on our money already earned, after being hit with sales tax, gas, property, licenses, fees and other taxes - and still the Washington, Madison liberal politicians elected by you want to raise your taxes, demanding more - it’s time they gave your money back to you instead.

If you believe that one red cent of your Social Security income shouldn’t be taxed, then don’t let the chance now to repeal this massive tax hike on your Social Security benefits, and all Americans to slip by -- support the Liberty Committee and Congressman Ron Paul’s HR 1902, the Social Security benefits tax reduction act, to return the money to the American people.

Elaine Langland Morton,

Warrens

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