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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Social Security Preservation through Individual Choice Enhancement Act - Amends the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 to allow individual taxpayers an election to claim the 2% reduction in employment taxes under such Act in any calendar year beginning in or after 2012.</p> <p>Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to increase the applicable social security retirement age by one month for each calendar year that a taxpayer elects a reduction in employment taxes under this Act. </p>]]></text>
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