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To the editor:
Some members of Congress have proposed that Social Security benefits be cut and that older persons pay more for Medicare coverage in order to reducethe federal budget deficit.
Older Americans support fair mea-' sures reduce the deficit. But older persons have already been subject to severe benefit cutbacks, with Social Security cuts of more than $100 billion over the decade and cuts of more than $22 billion in Medicare/Medicaid in the last three years.
These new proposals would impose an unfairly heavy burden on those over 65. The proposed one-year freeze
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