Reply #79: It make a good sound bite, but actually,

[shimmergal]

the seniors who need help most wouldn't benefit, because their incomes are so low they already pay no income taxes. Most seniors living on social security and a small monthly pension are in this category. Ideally, the social security COLs would be revised upward to reflect the real rise in cost of living, but given that REpubs want to do away with social security entirely, that's probably not going to happen.

Another idea would be something comparable to the Earned Income Credit, but applied to those who worked a certain number of years earlier in their lifetimes.