{"id":2749,"date":"2004-10-13T09:51:27","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T14:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2749.html"},"modified":"2004-10-13T09:51:27","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T14:51:27","slug":"bush-has-his-priorities-are-they-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/bush-has-his-priorities-are-they-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush has his priorities; are they yours?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it (I sure did), the Detroit News ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/2004\/specialreport\/0409\/26\/a01-284666.htm\">a great series<\/a> a few weeks ago detailing the ways in which the working poor suffer under Bush&#8217;s tax cuts. It&#8217;s a devastating indictment, accompanied by some helpful charts (and I do love good charts).<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of choice tidbits that jumped out at me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>* The poorest 20 percent of workers, who earn on average $16,600 annually, will get a tax break of $250 this year, which is less than 2 percent of their income. That amounts to about 68 cents a day. By comparison, the richest 1 percent, with average incomes topping $1.1 million, will receive $78,460 in tax cuts this year. That is nearly 7 percent of their income.<\/p>\n<p>* [T]he Bush tax breaks for the richest 10 percent this year alone will total $148 billion. That is twice as much as the government will spend on job training, $6.2 billion; college Pell grants, $12 billion; public housing, $6.3 billion; low-income rental subsidies, $19 billion; child care, $4.8 billion; insurance for low-income children, $5.2 billion; low-income energy assistance, $1.8 billion; meals for shut-ins, $180 million; and welfare, $16.9 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The reduction in government assistance that accompanied the tax cuts couldn&#8217;t come at a worse time. The number of Americans living in poverty has risen 10 percent since 2000, after falling in the late 1990s. Nearly 36 million Americans &#8212; one in eight &#8212; now live in poverty and tens of millions more are considered working poor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bush has his priorities; are they yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it (I sure did), the Detroit News ran a great series a few weeks ago detailing the ways in which the working poor suffer under Bush&#8217;s tax cuts. It&#8217;s a devastating indictment, accompanied by some helpful charts (and I do love good charts). Here are a couple of choice tidbits that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}