20 Quotes by Robert Greenstein

The Texas Legislature should not have to go cut other programs for ongoing Texas residents to help the evacuees,

So there's actually big differences for low- and moderate-income families -- better under Gore. Big differences for very high-income families -- they get a lot more under Bush.

Although it contains the same themes as earlier administration budgets, it is somewhat harsher.

There is this double standard. The losses are larger in other areas of the tax code, but somehow a different standard gets applied to this.

It is particularly ironic that these two new tax cuts repeal provisions of the tax code that President Bush's father signed in 1990 to reduce deficits.

The Administration estimates that its HSA-related tax proposals would cost $156 billion over the next ten years, which would worsen the nation's fiscal problems. Professor Gruber's study raises very serious questions about the wisdom of these proposals.

It's certainly better that people falling into poverty can get Medicaid, but I'd prefer fewer poor people and employers not dropping medical coverage.

The new data are particularly troubling for working people, showing backward movement for most workers. In short, the census data provide new evidence that, as in 2002 and 2003, the recovery was neither robust nor broad-based.

In a nutshell, this budget clearly digs the hole deeper.