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June 30, 2003
Priorities
A couple days ago I wrote a post about how the government is trying to do the military on the cheap by doing things like capping some classifications raises at no more than 2%, and deciding it would be wasteful to pay an additional $6,000 to the families of soldiers who are killed.
Just to give a bit extra perspective, remember when there was the flap recently about the child care tax-credit? The Senate wanted to expand the credit to low-income families, but the House Republicans refused to unless they could also get an additional $82 million in tax cuts for the rich. Obviously, the House didn't consider that $82,000,000 to be wasteful. But a proposal that would have cost us $1,212,000 to date would be, according to the White House. (Based on a total of 202 US casualties in Iraq according to the Summary published by Lunaville.)
Somehow, I don't think most people would agree with those priorities, if only they understood what is really happening in Washington today.
Posted by thorswitch at June 30, 2003 03:45 PM
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