Bush Budget Plan Focuses on Tax Cuts and Defense (replacing Domestic prgs)

[papau]

Hmmmm... cutting farm subsidies and medical and disability services to veterans - increasing taxes by requiring air travelers to pay an additional $3 fee on each segment of a flight, on top of the current $2.50 federal fee...as we extend Bush's tax cuts for dividends, capital gains and business expenses... hmmmmmm

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-budget8feb08.story
PRESIDENT BUSH'S BUDGET PLAN
Bush Budget Plan Focuses on Tax Cuts and Defense
President's $2.57-trillion proposal grants increases to Pentagon and Homeland Security.
By Joel Havemann and Maura Reynolds Times Staff Writers February 8, 2005

WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday proposed a $2.57-trillion budget for 2006 that continues to shift government priorities from domestic programs to national security and tax cuts.<snip>

The spending plan includes a range of restraints that would fall most heavily on education, environmental protection, farm subsidies and housing, although a few domestic programs would come out ahead.

Maximum Pell Grants to needy college students, for example, would be boosted by $100 per student, per year. At the same time, a loan program for college students would be scaled back, and federal spending on vocational education in high schools would be eliminated.
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Democrats also protested Bush's budget choices. Rep. John M. Spratt Jr. of South Carolina, the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said the spending cuts were dwarfed by the president's tax cuts and "barely make a dent in the deficit."<snip>

The cuts that Bush proposed fall mostly in the one-sixth of the budget that is made up of domestic programs whose spending levels are set in annual appropriations bills. Bush proposed cutting these programs by about 1% overall, marking the first attempt by a president since the Reagan administration not just to cap but to cut non-defense discretionary spending.<snip>

This year, the White House did not provide a list of the 150 programs (to be eliminated).<snip>

By contrast, the Community Oriented Policing Services program, or COPS, which provides grants for state and local agencies to hire police officers, would be reduced from $499 million to $22 million. This program was a favorite of President Clinton's.<snip>

The proposed budget includes cuts in programs dear to environmentalists. Of greatest concern is a proposed 5.6% cut in the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency, mostly in the area of clean water programs for state and local governments.<snip>

[Lizardking]

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Sen. Harken is bashing the chimps budget. S4en. Spector, a Pug is also bashing the budget. Maybe..............