Once large numbers of baby boomers start retiring and begin to benefit from these tax breaks, they'll become not just more expensive, but also more difficult politically to modify.
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Related As 77 million baby boomers start retiring, this industry is going to explode. LTCFP is exploding alr... CAMERON TRUESDELL Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each ... JIM BUNNING We have growth potential throughout the entire country. The number of baby boomers retiring every da... CHRIS HANSON Open the borders to willing workers from any and all nations. They will create businesses that pay t... LOUIS NAVELLIER This is a highly politically charged issue, and it's going to become bigger and bigger as the baby b... DAVID GRABOWSKI These are meters and not numbers of people. Some industry customers have more electric meters. We al... SUSAN ALLEN Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once. MICHAEL R. FRENCH If you're looking for income, as retiring baby boomers are going to be, this is an important investm... ANNE KRITZMIRE There are simply more young people than there ever were. You get this feeling of strength. Also, lar... JOHN KNOWLES We are aware not just of the baby boomers, but everybody who is getting close to the 25-year mark. KIM EVANS Christmas just isn't as important anymore. Americans, especially baby boomers, have started realizin... CARL STEIDTMANN It will make tax controversies more expensive, more intrusive and more inconvenient for taxpayers. KENT CONRAD This generation is not like baby boomers. They are more reserved about writing about themselves. But... ED WILKS During this time of year they congregate more than other months but I've never seen them in these la... DOUG TURIN The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let... JOHN MCCAIN Some people think that we're kind of headed toward a train wreck when it comes to baby boomers' savi... DON BLANDIN More people turn 80 every day than are born in Bucks County, and the baby boomers are starting to se... BOB HARRIS Today we are reaching from younger people to? baby boomers and up. ETHAN ALLEN These types of special privileges are not only difficult to comply with, but it's very expensive. BRETT HALL There just aren't enough workers to replace the baby boomers, BARBARA HALL It's always more expensive to do something than nothing. But in the long run, it will be less expens... ABBY ANDERSON Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically conn... CHARLES KOCH A lot of baby boomers are baby bongers. KEVIN NEALON I wouldn't want (tax breaks) to last for more than five to 10 years. DONALD GARNER By throwing on more and more responsibilities, employees become more expensive and eventually too ex... GEORGE RUNNER Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious... BERTRAND RUSSELL Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious... Impression once created it's difficult to maintain it but once lost it's more difficult to regain it... KHILAN RAMANI Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing. VALENTINO ROSSI Things have changed. We're getting more and more requests to transport larger patients every day and... ROY CARROLL We find it difficult to believe that all of these changes could occur more than once. DAN GEBO More wealthy people will be out in the market because baby boomers will start to retire in 2007, and... ITARU KOEDA That's when I decided to stop dillydallying. It just sounds like it's going to be much more difficul... BARBARA MOORE That's when I decided to stop dillydallying, ... It just sounds like it's going to be much more diff... BARBARA MOORE It also reflects the wrong priorities by cutting important programs like education and Medicare to f... CARL LEVIN I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that y... RICHARD LAMM While the MEMS industry has traditionally been associated with automotive applications, the consumer... MARLENE BOURNE These are not incredibly large numbers, ... Along with the lower tax payments, refunds could add a h... JIM O'SULLIVAN When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by... MATTHEW DESMOND Their plan leaves nothing for Medicare -- not one penny. It explodes in costs just as the Baby Boome... TOM DASCHLE Reports also suggest that Ernst and Young and other large tax preparation firms are sending tax retu... MELISSA BEAN Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Purchasing at the local level rolls over dollars to stimulate the local economy and begin the longer... ED FOX We need to begin to change our strategies. This group that has not gotten the publicity [that baby b... GEE DUNSTEN We have become so politically correct in this society it is causing us to become more and more incor... BOBBY F. KIMBROUGH JR. Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapi... JACK HORN RFID cards are more expensive to produce. However, we are prepared to invest, as these cards are mor... DAVID NG Politics is the process where men & women who are politically inclined & claim to be politicians by ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The story there is more positive, not just from the current-account surplus, but also from the inter... CRAIG CHAN These grants are very competitive, and we work hard to bring these opportunities to the employees of... CARY ISRAEL This has evolved from an older man's sport to a family sport. Our dads, more or less, were big cowbo... ALAN DEAL Research has shown that middle-income wage earners would benefit most from a large reduction in corp... LAWRENCE KUDLOW Many young parents think linearly. Get a job, move up, buy a house, start a family, educate the chil... DUANE MEEK The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do ... MARTIN O'MALLEY The longer they hold onto these people the more difficult the negotiations and transition to another... ART BOWMAN We need to become more aware of how rapidly the definitions of what it means to be Jewish are changi... MARK CHARENDOFF More than 1.1 million taxpayers in Pennsylvania will enjoy a lower tax rate, more than 1.4 million m... TIM MURPHY As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it ta... DAVID RUBENSTEIN To tell you the truth, if you're looking at rising pretty high, then you need to find a way of t... ARUNDHATI BHATTACHARYA These servers continue to be the choice in increasing numbers to meet the needs of more Web users ac... JEFFREY HEWITT There needs to be more breaks in these medians to make it more accessible to businesses. DAVID HANSHAW The idea of a work/life balance is much more important to younger workers than it ever was with baby... JEN JORGENSEN Once they become more Americanized, they start adopting the diet that everyone else follows. ELIZABETH MARTINEZ There's a certain political unattractiveness to essentially providing tax breaks at the corporate le... DAVID PERRY Corporate tax reform should include not just large C-corps but also smaller business S-corps and LLC... LAWRENCE KUDLOW It's the new economic development. This freight train is just a few steps from our doorstep now. The... DAN OWENS Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the ... ANDREW MELLON This type of a margins tax would be paid whether you were profitable or not. Unprofitable businesses... BILL WOLTERS The month-to-month gas price hike was driven primarily by increasing oil prices and speculation over... CAROL THORP Competition has just become very, very fierce. PE firms have really had to become more institutional... BARBARA JONES As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the a... PAT BUCHANAN Vision is obviously an issue for baby boomers. If you make the books more readable, then some of the... JACK ROMANOS I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise dis... ANDREW CARNEGIE Meredith is not getting a lot of numbers so far this season, but she's learning that basketball is m... TROY MILLER From the start, it was very difficult to budget because we had no way of knowing how expensive the t... ANNE BARTON The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imagi... DAN BROWN Low-income Canadians benefit relatively little from these tax cuts, yet they may be hurt a great dea... ELLEN RUSSELL Also, the fund has become more diversified, where it was once almost solely pharmas and biotechnolog... CHRISTOPHER DAVIS Certainly from the rehearsal process with Elizabeth I think it was very clear. Well let me start aga... JENNIFER BEALS Insecurity is debilitating. It cripples your motivation and breaks your spirit. The condition is NOT... CARLOS WALLACE The alternative, to wait for an [Israeli-Palestinian] agreement and move the settlers all at once, i... AVSHALOM VILAN As people begin to see benefits they can identify with personally, they become more and more accepti... DAVID DZISIAK My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being igno... HELEN REDDY The retirees, the early retirees, the Baby Boomers, we think that works well for us. They are lookin... JOE DIKDAN And look at the room growth. Capacity isn't enormous given the weight of baby boomers who have more ... ANDREW ZARNETT We're trying to reach out to users - not just from start-ups, but also the corporate types. ESTHER DYSON Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a m... JACK BOWMAN It's a nice start for Lentz, but he needs to do more than match Weldon dollar for dollar from here o... THOMAS BALDINO They had this arrogant belief that when baby boomers turn 50, 'they belong to us,' and that just did... DAN GORRELL Time has the same effect on the mind as on the face; the predominant passion and the strongest featu... MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function i... THOMAS SOWELL People start to lie more once they start to care less. RAIN COOPER About 35 percent of our business used to be entry-level buyers. That's about 10 percent now, and tha... BOB ADAMS In the last three weeks, Block provided new and contradictory numbers. We agreed to modify our ad af... BRAD HENSKE It's not just a question of numbers. There will be more women (in parliament) who are conscious of w... HANAN ASHRAWI The Boomers are in their peak earning years, buying second homes and retiring to Florida. We're seei... DAVID LEREAH If these files are as full as people say, they are going to get more names and so it's become a larg... HUGO YOUNG A lot of people can barely afford it before the sales tax came in, and now it makes it more expensiv... DAVID OLIN There's probably going to be more money coming to the industry, but it's difficult to put precise nu... CAI RUMOHR There's probably going to be more money coming to the industry, but it's difficult to put precise nu... CAI VON RUMOHR
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