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...Bush budget assumes a "patch" to fix the AMT bracket creep, but only for this coming year. In other words, while denouncing the AMT's growing burden as a terrible problem, the Bush budget's long-term numbers count on it. When asked by TIME if keeping Americans from creeping into the AMT would cost the Treasury a lot, Bolten said: "It would increase the deficit. I don't have exact numbers on how large, and I believe even if the Congress were to decide to patch the AMT indefinitely, we would still show a very substantially declining deficit path...
...ground last week and remained true to his values. Some conservatives-including the authors of a recent cover story in the Weekly Standard magazine-believe it's time for Republicans to embrace a mandatory universal health-insurance plan. Representatives of American industry-which is staggering under its health-care burden-have been meeting quietly with labor unions, think tanks and interest groups in Washington to try to find common ground. In 1993, Senator John Chafee proposed a Republican model of universal coverage that subsidized the working poor and taxed the rich to pay for it; he had the support...
...convicted of assassinating her husband. (She believed, as did some others, that Ray was probably innocent and King's murder was the work of several conspirators.) Her primary legacy, though, was in turning her husband's mission into her own, saying "Hate is too great a burden...
...According to Swarthout, the measures increase the financial burden on students and families trying to finance college educations in order to pay for tax cuts for wealthy Americans...
...want to win the political battle in the long run, they will have to prove that there are alternatives to abortion and that they can work. In 1997, for instance, Missouri passed a tax credit for donations to maternity homes. These activists also acknowledge that they bear a special burden to help women trying to raise babies they can't afford. Larry Weber, executive director of the Missouri Catholic Conference, notes that the year after abortion-rights opponents helped rally support in 1993 to make more people eligible for Medicaid, the abortion rate dropped sharply...