Robert Greenstein
Robert Greenstein
Robert Greenstein is founder and President of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington, D.C. think tank that focuses on federal and state fiscal policy and public programs that affect low and moderate-income families and individuals...
code cuts father ironic president provisions reduce repeal signed tax
It is particularly ironic that these two new tax cuts repeal provisions of the tax code that President Bush's father signed in 1990 to reduce deficits.
applied areas double gets larger losses somehow standard tax
There is this double standard. The losses are larger in other areas of the tax code, but somehow a different standard gets applied to this.
although budgets contains earlier somewhat themes
Although it contains the same themes as earlier administration budgets, it is somewhat harsher.
cut help ongoing programs texas
The Texas Legislature should not have to go cut other programs for ongoing Texas residents to help the evacuees,
families income
So there's actually big differences for low- and moderate-income families -- better under Gore. Big differences for very high-income families -- they get a lot more under Bush.
clout money political power
You can see the political clout of the moneyed interests.