{"id":1055,"date":"2004-01-28T18:56:15","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T01:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/center-on-budget-and-policy-priorities\/"},"modified":"2004-01-28T18:56:15","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T01:56:15","slug":"center-on-budget-and-policy-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/center-on-budget-and-policy-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Center on Budget and Policy Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities<\/a><\/p>\n

President Proposes to Make Tax Benefits of Health Savings Accounts More Lucrative for Higher-Income Individuals – Revised 1\/26\/04<\/p>\n

The President’s proposal to permit individuals with Health Savings Accounts to deduct their health insurance premium costs would do little to help low- and moderate-income uninsured families obtain health insurance, would primarily benefit the higher-income individuals<\/b> who can already use HSAs as a lucrative tax shelter<\/b>, and would further weaken comprehensive employer-based coverage<\/b>.<\/p>\n

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has plenty of wonkish article — check it out. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CBO Figures Indicate Lower Revenues, Not Higher Spending, Account For The Large Deficit – 1\/26\/04
\nNew CBO estimates show revenues in 2004 will be exceptionally low, falling to their smallest share of GDP since 1950<\/b>. Spending won’t be particularly high; as a share of GDP it will be lower than throughout the administrations of Presidents Carter and Reagan, and the first President Bush.<\/p>\n

The advocates of ”starve the beast” (kill the federal government by cutting off funds) are still demanding less spending, and in this they are a bit frustrated with Bush and the Republicans in Congress. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities President Proposes to Make Tax Benefits of Health Savings Accounts More Lucrative for Higher-Income Individuals – Revised 1\/26\/04 The President’s proposal to permit individuals with Health Savings Accounts to deduct their health insurance premium costs would do little to help low- and moderate-income uninsured families obtain health insurance, would … Continue reading Center on Budget and Policy Priorities<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}