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I am not yet getting my health care through Medicare, I am just 61. But that will day will come, I hope, in just a few years. The next GOP budget, which our Congressperson, Nan Hayworth, supports wholeheartedly, would end Medicare as we know it. The plan would give seniors a voucher to buy their own health insurance from private insurers. The value of the vouchers will increase at a far slower pace than will the cost of health care. It won’t be sustainable for anyone but the very rich.

Recent news reports revealed that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other groups are spending millions of dollars from secret corporate and possibly foreign donors to influence American voters. Today, the League of Women Voters released a statement stating that “Secret Campaign Cash Should Have No Place in Our American Democracy” and calling for passage of the DISCLOSE Act.

Nan Hayworth is touting Rep Paul Ryan (R-WI) as one of her heroes. Her standard stump speech includes a big dose of Ryan’s Roadmap for America’s Future. It’s complete Nan-sense. Nan’s vision for the 19th CD is to “restore prosperity and increase jobs through free-market growth…” Her real plan includes a MASSIVE MIDDLE CLASS TAX INCREASE, while providing even more drastic tax reductions for millionaires like … Nan Hayworth. That's no way to restore prosperity.

The gist of Nan-sense tax reform is to cut the top income tax bracket to 25% from 35% on incomes above $100,000. The plan would eliminate the tax on all interest, dividends and capital gains and eliminate the estate and gift tax and the corporate income tax. In other words, the principal federal tax levy would be a tax imposed only on income derived from labor by individuals; income earned from investments is not taxed.

This afternoon Congressman John Hall joined the growing chorus of elected officials all calling for State Senator Hiram Monserrate to resign or be removed.

"All New Yorkers, especially those who have been victims of domestic abuse, deserve to have Senator Monserrate step down or be removed from office. Monserrate has been convicted of a deplorable crime. The New York State Senate should set the example that violence against women will not be tolerated in our society."

Sign the petition at Firemonserrate.com