[UCANSEE2]

Please. I'm in my late 50's and I qualify for senior discounts in many cases. I don't need them and I don't ask for them. Just because I happen to surpass a certain age doesn't create entitlement.

AND THAT is where your VIEW of this situation is incorrect. It is not ENTITLEMENT.

It is only a MARKETING tool. For instance, if the ZOO had a CHILREN UNDER SIX FREE policy, would you insist on paying for your grandchild ? If you grocery store has a TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE policy (as long as you have a XXXX CUSTOMER CARD) on an item, do you insist on paying for both anyway?

Is a 'senior citizens discount' GUARANTEED by the US GOVERNMENT ?

We all know the answer is NO.

It has nothing to do with 'entitlement'.

[familyop]

"Is a 'senior citizens discount' GUARANTEED by the US GOVERNMENT ?"

Local governments with federal funding are a large part of the problem. And seniors, the group most able to afford living in their own homes (big government incomes from government and from government-linked employment), receive 50% property tax discounts. Meanwhile, they're the gossiping eyes and ears of regulators against young people using their own properties, building or starting any small efforts to produce.

Most service businesses are dependent on and linked with government. They push against any attempts to start new, small manufacturing shops in the very sparsely populated area around them. I'll give 'em a break anyway, and avoid their businesses instead of supporting any legislation against their lopsided policies.

Veterans, BTW, don't receive property tax discounts except for those who are "100% disabled," and there are no poverty discounts.