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...record in the Senate, and his plan for a tax policy that keeps costs low for working families, shows that he understands the pressures that face America’s middle class more than any other candidate in the race. Repealing Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans is a necessary and progressive step towards fiscal responsibility; keeping them in place for the middle class is sensible and compassionate policy. Kerry’s health care plan extends coverage to millions more Americans without outsourcing America’s healthcare protections or bankrupting its future economic stability...
...implementation. Acting unilaterally, the U.S. imposed Oct. 26, 2004 as a deadline for all visitors’ passports to contain biometric information. After that date, non-biometric passports will have to be accompanied by biometric visas. But even the United Kingdom, one of the world’s wealthiest countries, has announced that it will not be ready to issue biometric visas until mid-2005. By not providing appropriate communication to the international community in advance, the U.S. has essentially imposed an additional bureaucratic burden—acquiring visas—on all potential visitors. The lack of advance warning...
When I am president, I will stand up for a simple principle that ordinary Americans should not pay higher taxes on the work they do than the most fortunate pay on the wealth they own. I will eliminate President Bush’s irresponsible tax cuts for the wealthiest, preserve the cuts that help the middle class and offer new tax cuts that help middle-class families achieve some financial security again. I will match every $1 in private savings with $1 in refundable tax credits, up to $1,000 each year. A worker who saves the maximum under this...
...through the ’80s. The bill has gained 80 co-sponsors so far, including practically the entire House GOP establishment. “Tax-cut and spend” Republicans—who’ve apparently been unsatisfied simply giving away the federal budget to the wealthiest Americans—now want to manipulate the currency itself...
...abortion is just the beginning: a tax on the wealthiest of the wealthy estates in America is the medieval-sounding “Death Tax;” a flaw in the tax code making some couples pay extra is an unthinkable “Marriage Penalty.” A sweeping, embarrassing bill now resented by most of the educational community continues to be called the “No Child Left Behind” act, while a dramatic weakening of the Clean Air Act goes by the name of “Clear Skies...