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Letter to the Editor…

Threats to Social Security and Health Care

I was recently alarmed to learn that the president’s budget proposes big cuts to social security payments to seniors. Then I heard him say he wanted to drop the payroll tax which provides the funding for the social security program. Many of us seniors depend on social security for basic needs like food, clothing, shelter, and medicine.

His proposals for healthcare are even more alarming to me. Even though the president...