Bush's $1.7 Trillion in Tax Cuts Hurts Schools, Spurs Tax Hikes

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June 23 (Bloomberg) -- Al Strazzullo, a retired regional manager for the U.S. General Accounting Office, got the good news first. President George W. Bush's $330 billion cut in personal income taxes put an extra $177 in his 2003 government pension.

In March, Strazzullo, 76, got the bad news. The gain was wiped out by a $538 increase in property taxes on his three- bedroom, brick-veneer house in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The bill went to $3,283 from $2,745.

``I'm very unhappy,'' says Strazzullo, who adds that he wants the city to slash taxes and curtail spending. ``A lot of people in town are under financial stress, and you just can't get a break.''

That lament is being heard all over the U.S. after Bush's 2003 tax cuts as states, counties and cities boost rates to meet the rising cost of government. Mayors, school officials and taxpayers from Virginia to Oregon say the tax burden in the U.S. is shifting from the federal government to states, cities and counties as local taxes are raised and services are cut.

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1. Education is the way the middle class reproduces itself. It's the way that

you make your labor as valuable as possible. And when the middle class has economic power, they have political power.

That's why bush is trying to destroy education for people who get their wealth from their own labor.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

2. This story is being replayed all over the country

Trumpets announce the measly $400 federal income tax cut, but nobody notices the massive state sales taxes and local property tax increases that paid for it.

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4. you got it

Our $500 tax cut was more than offset by an increase in our property taxes, and an increase in our health insurance premiums (I work for the state).

Thanks, Georgie!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Bush's $1.7 Trillion in Tax Cuts Hurts Schools, Spurs Tax Hikes

Our $500 tax cut was more than offset by an increase in our property taxes, and an increase in our health insurance premiums (I work for the state).<<

Don't forget the 200$ a month many people are or were paying for petrol for the past months... I am sure it has made many persons' "tax breaks" go broke...

"My gas break went in my tax tank"... unknown

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[TheTruthBeKnown]

6. Texas 12th Graders FLUNKING

Texas 12th Graders FLUNKING
by Larry S. Rolirad

Texas 12th graders are flunking. 43% of Texas graduating seniors are flunking or making D-minus averages. Why is this important? Well, their grades are the fault of Bush who destroyed Texas education system. Four years ago these high school students were in the 8th grade. Bush lied and lied saying he was responsible for turning around Texas education system. Bush didn't improve the system, he ruined it. Even four years ago Texas graduating seniors scored the worst in the nation on college entrance exams. Now they are doing even worse.

The entire fault of the failed Texas education system falls on Bush and the republican party which has dominated the Texas state government for the past 12 years. Not only is education in shambles but the state deficit is the largest in state history. Texas deficits are second to California. But how can this be? After all, republicans claim that if they are in charge they can solve every problem. But any thinking person knows republicans are liars. Texas is a complete mess. Every imaginable tax has gone up to levels of 1000% or more in the last ten years of republican control of government.