The Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy newsletter featured these interesting statistics from the Children's Defense Fund Budget Analysis:
• The budget proposes making tax cuts that were passed in 2003 permanent. These tax cuts provided $93,500 for very high income individuals while providing just $217 to the average income worker. For low-income individuals, including a large number of active-duty service members, no tax relief is provided. Making the tax cuts permanent would add $4.2 trillion to the federal budget deficit.
• For less than one-third of what it would cost to make tax cuts permanent, all 9 million uninsured children in the U.S. could be covered by health insurance, every eligible child could be offered Head Start programming and 100,000 teachers could be added to U.S. public schools, reducing class size nationally.
Posted by sarah at February 27, 2004 9:25 AM | TrackBack