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If we do nothing, we are handing our children a ticking time bomb that will require they pay ever greater payroll taxes just as they are beginning their careers, starting their own families and staking their claim to the American Dream.
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John McCain
Age: 81 †
Born: 1936
Born: August 29
Died: 2018
Died: August 25
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