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Bush Budget Ugliness
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Our budget comes down to moral choices -- the Bush budget chooses tax giveaways for corporations over college loans for kids. It chooses loopholes that let big businesses get away with avoiding taxes over aid to family farmers and rural communities; the companies that dodge their responsibilities by setting up fake headquarters in Bermuda over the partnership that is helping small businesses create manufacturing jobs here at home. Just look at this budget¹s effect on our homeland security. Last year it targeted firefighter assistance and cuts those grants by 31 percent below the amount from last year. And when it comes to the COPS program so important in protecting America from terrorism the budget has good news and bad news. The good news is that they are not trying to eliminate the COPS program. The bad news is that they cut it by 96 percent. Kind of makes you wonder why they decided to leave that four percent there. This year's budget proposal cuts $69 Bil. from social programs, medicare and school loans. We need a budget that prepares our nation for the economy of the future. But President Bush¹s budget saddles our economy and the next generation with an even greater burden of debt .These Republican policies that have added trillions to the debt in effect, a ³birth tax² of $36,000 on every child that is born.The Bush budget doesn't count the future costs of the war in Iraq. It doesn't count the nearly $5 trillion his Social Security plan costs. And it doesn't count the full cost of his tax cuts. When this Bush budget gets placed in the Library of Congress, it ought to get filed under fiction.These choices aren¹t based on the kinds of values you and I believe in. America has a moral compass -- Washington Republicans are just reading it upside down.
Bush Budget Ugliness
http://democrats.senate.gov/submit.html opins
Our budget comes down to moral choices -- the Bush budget chooses tax giveaways for corporations over college loans for kids. It chooses loopholes that let big businesses get away with avoiding taxes over aid to family farmers and rural communities; the companies that dodge their responsibilities by setting up fake headquarters in Bermuda over the partnership that is helping small businesses create manufacturing jobs here at home. Just look at this budget¹s effect on our homeland security. Last year it targeted firefighter assistance and cuts those grants by 31 percent below the amount from last year. And when it comes to the COPS program so important in protecting America from terrorism the budget has good news and bad news. The good news is that they are not trying to eliminate the COPS program. The bad news is that they cut it by 96 percent. Kind of makes you wonder why they decided to leave that four percent there. This year's budget proposal cuts $69 Bil. from social programs, medicare and school loans. We need a budget that prepares our nation for the economy of the future. But President Bush¹s budget saddles our economy and the next generation with an even greater burden of debt .These Republican policies that have added trillions to the debt in effect, a ³birth tax² of $36,000 on every child that is born.The Bush budget doesn't count the future costs of the war in Iraq. It doesn't count the nearly $5 trillion his Social Security plan costs. And it doesn't count the full cost of his tax cuts. When this Bush budget gets placed in the Library of Congress, it ought to get filed under fiction.These choices aren¹t based on the kinds of values you and I believe in. America has a moral compass -- Washington Republicans are just reading it upside down.
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