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Article: Selected Kerry campaign proposals.
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2004
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Byline: Will Sullivan
Bush tax cuts: would repeal for income over $200,000.
Tax credits: would retain increase in child tax credit and decrease in so-called marriage penalty.
Deficit goal: plans to cut deficit in half by end of first term.
Social Security: would create a one-year "payroll tax holiday," in which no Social Security tax would be collected on the first $10,000 of income.
Health care proposals: Expand current federal-state children's health insurance program to cover low-income young adults through age 24 and some low-income parents; create rebate pool to help businesses pay for catastrophic health care costs if ...