| The White House President George W. Bush |
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| The President's Budget & New Jersey | |
The President’s Budget funds America’s priorities, provides the largest debt reduction in history and provides fair and responsible tax relief. In New Jersey, the budget:
Benefits an estimated 465,000 New Jersey small businesses and entrepreneurs by reducing marginal tax rates and making the Research & Development tax credit permanent.
Provides tax relief for roughly 3.2 million New Jersey citizens who pay taxes.
Provides relief for an estimated 1.5 million New Jersey married couples by reducing the Marriage Penalty.
Provides relief for an estimated 754,000 New Jersey families by doubling the Child Tax Credit.
Fully funds the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to help protect New Jersey’s families against fuel shortages and price hikes.
Increases New Jersey's education funding over current levels to more than $978 million to give local schools more tools to ensure that no child is left behind.
Increases New Jersey’s Head Start funding over current levels to more than $123 million to better prepare New Jersey’s children for success in school.
Increases funding to more than $953 million in housing assistance and services for low-income New Jersey citizens.
Provides more than $91.6 million in funding for water resource projects along New Jersey’s rivers and waterways.
Provides more than $92 million to fund New Jersey environmental protection efforts.
Provides more than $8.8 million to help conserve New Jersey’s natural resources – a 256% increase over current levels just for New Jersey.
Provides an estimated $756 million in highway funding for New Jersey
.Provides $391 million for programs and grants to help local fire departments and emergency services in New Jersey and all across America with training, equipment, and fire fighting and lifesaving efforts.
Provides a $5.6 billion National Emergency Reserve to aid New Jersey and other states struck by disasters.
Increases New Jersey’s funding over current levels to more than $28 million to help more New Jersey children awaiting adoption find loving homes faster.
The President’s Budget Funds Important Priorities for New Jersey:
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 more than $8.8 million targeted for New Jersey’s conservation efforts; gives the EPA the second highest operating budget ever -- $3.7 billion, with more than $92 million targeted for New Jersey’s environmental efforts; and increases funding for the EPA $56 million above the amount requested by President Clinton.
New Jersey 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 New Jersey citizens in many important ways.
Fair and Responsible Tax Relief for all New Jersey Taxpayers:
Provides the typical family of four in New Jersey paying income taxes $1,600 in tax relief.
An estimated 3.2 million New Jersey taxpayers stand to benefit by the new, lowered rate structure.
An estimated 465,000 New Jersey 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 New Jersey making $35,000 a year will receive a 100% federal income tax cut.
A family of four in New Jersey making $50,000 a year will receive a 50% tax cut – receiving at least $1,600.
A family of four in New Jersey 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%.