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Another tax-related proposal, Question Six, would allow state residents and businesses to claim a tax credit for tolls they pay on state roads, bridges and tunnels and motor vehicle taxes. If passed, it will drain between $400 and $650 million per year from state coffers...
Bush's plan combines most existing federal funds for professional development and class-size reduction into a flexible new fund for teacher training and recruitment, and he adds $400 million a year in new money. Bush would allow states to spend the funds as they see fit--so long as they establish teacher-accountability systems. This is similar to what Ronald Reagan did in the 1980s. But then, says Emily Feistritzer, president of the Center for Education Information, "the money disappeared." Under Bush's plan, she says, "I worry that the money won't go where it's intended...
...need help. It should ensure that every citizen, whether he makes $20,000 or $120,000 or $12 million, has an audible voice in the government that represents him. And in good economic times like these, the government's job is to facilitate those good times, to allow that prosperity to happen. To not stand in the way. To do the things, like balancing the budget and paying down the national debt, that allow the stock markets to thrive and businesses to grow...
...believe that this nation must rise or fall on the strength of its people, and I know you will not let us down. I believe that if we allow America to be a place where folks are in charge of their own lives, making their own decisions, we will rise as a nation to heights we never dreamed possible...
...Agreeing to negotiate at all right now is difficult for the leaders on both sides. Barak's minority coalition now governs under the shadow of its constant vulnerability to being thrown out in a parliamentary no-confidence vote. And even if they're prepared to allow his government a period of grace amid the current turmoil, the violence of the past six weeks has reduced the Israeli public's confidence in the peace process to an all-time low. On the Palestinian side, overwhelming public skepticism toward the peace process has given way to increasingly open defiance of Arafat...