We Need Seniors Help Yet Taxes Penalize Them
Our view argues that seniors are underused in a youth centered society and that current tax rules harm the elderly. It cites the earnings test, delayed retirement credit, and taxation of Social Security benefits as disincentives to work. It calls for raising thresholds and phasing out the earnings test.
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America
Census Bureau
Lloyd Bentsen
Texas
Congress
Good Housekeeping
Ann Rule
Mike Fair
Mike Fairs
Letters to the Editor on dorm visitation and Langley Pond pollution
Readers condemn dormitory visitor policy raising assault fears and urge action. Aiken County faces Langley Pond pollution from industrial dumping, decades of sewage discharge, and public-health warnings.
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Aiken County
Langley Pond
Horse Creek
Aiken
Aiken Standard Seeks Signed Letters to the Editor
The Aiken Standard invites letters to the editor. Writers must sign with a readable mailing address. Brief, to the point letters are preferred and may be edited. Send to The Editor Box 456 Aiken South Carolina 29802.
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Aiken Standard
Aiken
Aiken, S.C
Bush address aims at drugs and Colombia drug war
A columnist urges President Bush to push hard on drug suppression by sending 50 to 100 U.S. troops to Colombia to curb the Medellin cartel. The piece argues the Colombian government is weakened, U.S. citizens face grave addiction threats, and decisive action is needed to end the drug flow and demonstrate national resolve.
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Bush
Latin America
United States
America
Colombia
Medellin Cartel
Natasha
U.S
Virgilio Barco
Reagan
World War II Could Have Been Prevented, Says Historian
The essay argues the Nazi Soviet pact and Hitler’s rise were stoppable but failed due to appeasement and isolationism. It traces from the Rhineland to Pearl Harbor, Teheran to Potsdam, and the Cold War rise of Stalinism. It credits Khrushchev, Gorbachev, and Western democracies with ending the Cold War and reviving freedoms in Eastern Europe.
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York City
Hitler
Stalin
Poland
Rhineland
Britain
France
America
Franklin Roosevelt
U.S
Russia
Roosevelt
Churchill
Teheran
Yalta
Potsdam
Europe
Southeast Asia
Mikhail Gorbachev
Khrushchev
Gorbachev
Open-Door Communities Needed to Save Local Airports
The piece argues that neglect and regulatory shifts are shrinking general aviation, pushing small planes from city hubs and threatening rural airports. It urges communities to resist zoning limits and preserve their front doors to maintain aviation access amid airline dominance.
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Usc
United States
Boston
Chicago
America
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Warrenville
John F. Boyette III
Melanie L. Arney
Sue S. Brown
Claude Lewis
Knight-Ridder Service
Solzhenitsyn
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