More on 2007 budget proposal

From the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities:

THE PRESIDENT’S BUDGET: A PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS

          An Administration’s budget is a statement of its priorities.
This budget’s priorities are clear: it features cuts in numerous
domestic programs that serve low- and middle-income families alongside
continued – and substantially expanded – tax cuts of very large size
that concentrate their benefits on people high on the income scale. The
new budget also contains continual significant increases in defense and
homeland security spending.

    This analysis assesses the President’s budget on three basic criteria –
fiscal responsibility, fairness and balance, and the degree to which it
is transparent. This analysis indicates that the budget falls well short
on all three standards.

http://www.cbpp.org/2-6-06bud.htm
http://www.cbpp.org/2-6-06bud.pdf  7pp.

PRESIDENT’S BUDGET WOULD CUT FOOD FOR OVER 400,000 LOW-INCOME SENIORS
 
        This analysis finds that President Bush’s fiscal year 2007
budget would eliminate funding for the Commodity Supplemental Food
Program (CSFP), terminating food assistance to over 400,000 low-income
seniors in an average month.

http://www.cbpp.org/2-6-06fa.htm
http://www.cbpp.org/2-6-06fa.pdf  3pp.

Ed:  Thanks to Abigail Turner for this submission.