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Voting for a President
The Future of Our Country Is the Future of Your Child
By Carma Haley Shoemaker
With rising costs of health care, 45 percent over the last five years according to American Blue Cross/Blue Shield, families are attempting to cut costs wherever possible. This fact has the candidates discussing both tax cuts and reform when offering their platform to the public. Bush claims that he would increase the $500-a-child yearly tax credit to $1,000 and supports a five-year plan for cutting taxes at all levels – business as well as personal. Gore also has a tax plan: If elected, he says he will fix the marriage tax penalty while also increasing the amount a married couple can earn in a given year while still receiving the full amount for the earned income tax credit.
Health care, gun control, violence in schools, social security, taxes and the environment, however, are not the only issues that the candidates are using as ammunition in the fight for the presidency. The issues stand, the comments fall and parents must decide the candidate they feel will help to protect their child – in sickness and in health.