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...changes to the income tax, his plan also includes other cuts, such as the repeal of the estate tax and various benefits for corporations. In addition, the income tax is already progressive; excise and payroll taxes, which the Bush plan does not address, generally represent a much greater burden for the poor. The result is that Bush's plan, according to an analysis by the left-leaning Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ), is highly uneven. While the poorest fifth of Americans will see their tax rates fall only by a little more than five percent and the middle fifth...
...group above all others. Since the income tax does not have much effect on the poor, it need not be the center of all tax proposals; a better means of tax reduction would include a negative income tax on those for whom excise and payroll taxes are the greatest burden...
...also suggested the lower state taxes would simply shift the tax burden to local governments...
...Yankees fan, comfortably (and inevitably, it often seemed) atop the baseball world since the then-underdog Bombers upended the hated Braves in 1996, to be confronted with a Subway Series is to feel what Al Gore must have felt before the start of the presidential debates. The burden of high expectations...
...formulating an international response to the threat of global climate change. Bush, however, argues against the Kyoto protocol. Like his father in the 1980s, Bush calls for further research before taking action against. In last Tuesday's debate, Bush stated that he would not let the U.S. carry the burden for cleaning up the world's air. He is correct in asserting that excluding India and China from the treaty exempts the world's two most populous nations from contributing to the reduction of global carbon dioxide emissions. The ultimate goal must be to include all developed and developing countries...