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But let's suspend disbelief for a moment. Assuming the surplus does come through, what would the tax-cut plans really do for people? Bush says under his plan, a hard-working family earning $60,000 would be spared an additional $2,050 in taxes; under Gore's, he says...
There's no question that Bush's tax cuts would be easier for families to claim: everybody's basic rate would be 3% to 7% lower, so less money would come out of each paycheck. It's that simple. But Bush does nothing for the millions of poorer people who...
If Bush's plan helps every taxpayer, especially the rich, Gore's is targeted at people with complicated middle-class lives. The jackpot winner under Gore would be a family making, say, $35,000 a year that has a child in day care (a tax credit of up to $2...
Gore has not abandoned all his Democratic tendencies. He makes up for his smaller tax cut with gigantic spending proposals like a proposed increase in child health-care coverage and a prescription-drug benefit under Medicare. Ultimately, Gore would spend about as much of the surplus as Bush. The only...
According to education professor Haney, more and more Texas minority students have dropped out of high school since the introduction of the state exam, from about 35% in the late 1980s to 40% through most of the 1990s. The Texas Education Agency dismisses Haney's calculations as inflated, and says...