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The President's Budget & Rhode Island

The President’s Budget funds America’s priorities, provides the largest debt reduction in history and provides fair and responsible tax relief. In Rhode Island, the budget:

Benefits an estimated 60,000 Rhode Island small businesses and entrepreneurs by reducing marginal tax rates and making the Research & Development tax credit permanent.

Provides tax relief for roughly 385,000 Rhode Island citizens who pay taxes.

Provides relief for an estimated 182,000 Rhode Island married couples by reducing the Marriage Penalty.

Provides relief for an estimated 91,000 Rhode Island families by doubling the Child Tax Credit.

Fully funds the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to help protect Rhode Island families against fuel shortages and price hikes.

Increases Rhode Island's education funding over current levels to more than $164 million to give local schools more tools to ensure that no child is left behind.

Increases Rhode Island’s Head Start funding over current levels to more than $21 million to better prepare Rhode Island children for success in school.

Increases funding to nearly $139 million in housing assistance and services for low-income Rhode Island citizens.

Provides more than $2 million in funding for water resource projects along Rhode Island’s rivers and waterways.

Provides more than $23 million to fund Rhode Island environmental protection efforts.

Provides $4.5 million to help conserve Rhode Island’s natural resources – a 395% increase over current levels just for Rhode Island.

Provides an estimated $170 million in highway funding for Rhode Island.

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

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

Increases funding over current levels to $7.8 million to help more Rhode Island children awaiting adoption find loving homes faster.

The President’s Budget Funds Important Priorities for Rhode Island:

Improving Education. Provides the Education Department with the largest percentage spending increase of any federal department (11.5% or $4.6 billion) and triples funding for children’s reading programs.

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 21st 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 $4.5 million targeted for Rhode Island’s conservation efforts; gives the EPA the second highest operating budget ever -- $3.7 billion, with more than $23 million targeted for Rhode Island’s environmental efforts; and increases funding for the EPA $56 million above the amount requested by President Clinton.

Rhode Island Will Benefit from the President’s Historic Debt Reduction:

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 Rhode Island citizens in many important ways.

Fair and Responsible Tax Relief for all Rhode Island Taxpayers:

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

An estimated 385,000 Rhode Island taxpayers stand to benefit by the new, lowered rate structure.

An estimated 60,000 Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island making $35,000 a year will receive a 100% federal income tax cut.

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

A family of four in Rhode Island 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%.


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