The plans are quite different. They're different in how much of the surplus they would use. They're different in where those surplus dollars would go. They're different in which groups of the population would get the principal benefits. |
The real danger is that the employers market erodes fast. |
The Texas Legislature should not have to go cut other programs for ongoing Texas residents to help the evacuees, |
There is this double standard. The losses are larger in other areas of the tax code, but somehow a different standard gets applied to this. |
There was no requirement to remove the $2 billion in LIHEAP money. There was no legislative or legal linkage in any way between it and the ANWR drilling provision. The only linkage was a purely political one. |
We need to figure out how to help more lower- and middle-income people save for retirement, ... not lose large amounts of money by giving people breaks at high-income levels, who already have substantial assets to fall back on. |
We've had a stunning reversal in just a few weeks, |
We've had a stunning reversal in just a few weeks. We've gone from a situation in which we might have a long-overdue debate on deep poverty to the possibility, perhaps even the likelihood, that low-income people will be asked to bear the costs. I would find it unimaginable if it wasn't actually happening. |
You can see the political clout of the moneyed interests. |