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Kerry calls for cash for strapped states
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Apr 06, 2004 11:14pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - St. Paul Pioneer Press |
| News Date | Tuesday, April 6, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Kerry calls for cash for strapped states
The Pioneer Press
U.S. Sen. John Kerry is proposing that Minnesota receive a one-time infusion of $435 million to boost its public schools, ease college tuition and help taxpayers squeezed by what his campaign calls President Bush's "budgetary dishonesty and fiscal recklessness." Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, unveiled his national $25 billion plan Monday to soften the blows state budgets coast to coast have suffered during the past few years. Wisconsin's share would total $470 million. "Almost all of the states in the country have raised taxes at the local level — you all have seen that struggle at home, and the result is, taxpayers are actually paying a higher burden in the middle class," Kerry told a group of Midwest reporters. "The middle-class tax burden in America has gone up, while the tax burden for the highest-income earners has gone down. That's George Bush economics, and it's bad for America." |
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