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PLAN: Devote more than a third of the projected surplus - $1.6 trillion - to tax cuts, including a broad cut for all income brackets. Double the child tax credit, give a credit to married couples regardless of whether they pay the marriage penalty, and repeal the estate...
...Bilingual Education - Arizona would repeal its bilingual education program and replace it with English immersion, intense one-year English classes for non-speakers. - Utah would make English the state's official language and encourage non-native speakers to "learn to read, write and understand English as quickly as possible...
...Stanford economist John Cogan came up with a plan to drop the bottom rate from 15 percent to 10 percent, and double the "kiddie tax credit" from $500 to $1,000 and make it available to people who earn up to $200,000. When the provisions for the repeal of the estate tax and marriage penalties are mixed in, Bush's plan still tilts heavily toward the rich. But the new cuts at the bottom end (worth at least $1,000 to a waitress mom making $22,000 a year) armed Bush with something Republicans have not recently been wise...
Unfortunately, this is not the plan Bush has put forward. Although Bush has emphasized his 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...
...third bill, the Secret Evidence Repeal Act, would have removed another provision of the 1996 law that violated basic principles of judicial fairness. Under the 1996 law, immigrants can be deported without being allowed to see the evidence on which their deportation is based, depriving them of all chance to present a defense. Many of the victims of the bill have been Arab-Americans: In one recent case, an Egyptian immigrant was detained without bond for three years on secret evidence until an immigration judge dismissed all the evidence as inadmissable hearsay. The bill has broad support...