Benefits more than 149,000 Mississippi small businesses and entrepreneurs by reducing marginal tax rates and making the Research & Development tax credit permanent.

Provides tax relief for roughly 786,000 Mississippi citizens who pay taxes.

Provides relief for an estimated 426,000 Mississippi married couples by reducing the Marriage Penalty.

Provides relief for an estimated 286,000 Mississippi families by doubling the Child Tax Credit.

Increases Mississippi’s education funding over current levels to more than $517 million to give local schools more tools to ensure that no child is left behind.

Increases Mississippi’s Head Start funding over current levels to more than $151.8 million to better prepare Mississippi’s children for success in school.

Increases funding to more than $256 million for housing assistance and services for low-income Mississippi citizens.

Provides more than $42 million in funding for water resource projects along Mississippi’s rivers and waterways.

Provides more than $32 million to fund Mississippi’s environmental protection efforts.

Provides more than $6 million to help conserve Mississippi’s natural resources – a 456% increase over current levels just for Mississippi.

Provides an estimated $365 million in highway funding for Mississippi.

Provides $391 million for programs and grants to help local fire departments and emergency services in Mississippi and all across America with training, equipment, and fire fighting and lifesaving efforts.

Provides a $5.6 billion National Emergency Reserve to aid Mississippi and other states nationwide struck by disasters.

Increases Mississippi’s funding over current levels to more than $4 million to help more Mississippi children awaiting adoption find loving homes faster.

Protecting Social Security. Locks away every penny of the $2.6 trillion Social Security surplus for Social Security.

Preserving Medicare. Spends every dime of Medicare receipts over the next 10 years only for Medicare, increases funding over the next year by $21 billion, and modernizes Medicare with an integrated prescription drug benefit.

Strengthening Defense. Improves quality of life of our troops and their families and begins the transition to a 21^st century force.

Improving Healthcare. Doubles funding for NIH medical research on important health issues like cancer, the largest funding increase in NIH history. Creates more than 1,200 new community health centers nationwide to make health care more accessible.

Protecting the Environment. Fully funds the Land and Water Conservation Fund – a $900 million commitment, with more than $6 million targeted for Mississippi’s conservation efforts; gives the EPA the second highest operating budget ever -- $3.7 billion, with more than $32 million targeted for Mississippi’s environmental efforts; and increases funding for the EPA $56 million above the amount requested by President Clinton.

The President’s Budget provides the fastest, largest debt reduction in history and reduces the debt to its lowest share of the economy since World War I, which will benefit Mississippi citizens in many important ways.

• Lower government debt means lower interest rates on Mississippi citizens’ home mortgages, car loans, credit cards and other expenses.

• Future generations of Mississippi citizens will not be burdened with repaying our debt obligations.

Provides the typical family of four in Mississippi paying income taxes $1,600 in tax relief.

An estimated 786,000 Mississippi taxpayers stand to benefit by the new, lowered rate structure.

An estimated 149,000 Mississippi small businesses and entrepreneurs stand to benefit from the tax cut.

1 in 5 taxpaying families with children will no longer pay any income tax at all – completely removing 6 million American families from the tax rolls.

A family of four in Mississippi making $35,000 a year will receive a 100% federal income tax cut.

A family of four in Mississippi making $50,000 a year will receive a 50% tax cut – receiving at least $1,600.

A family of four in Mississippi making $75,000 a year will receive a 25% tax cut.

The marginal income tax rate on low-income families will fall by more than 40%.