No Tax Relief Checks for more than One Million Children (rally today)

[Rose Siding]

No Tax Relief Checks for more than One Million Children of Teachers, Nurses and Their Aides, Says Children's Defense Fund

WASHINGTON, July 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The postal service will skip the mailboxes of one million children of teachers, nurses and their aides when they start to deliver child tax credit checks this week, according to a report released today by the Children's Defense Fund and the Center for Community Change. Most children of hard working sales workers, janitors and maids, cooks, and farming families will not receive checks. Help for 12 million children in hard-working families, including 260,000 children of active duty armed service personnel, was excluded at the last minute by the Bush Administration in its massive new tax law even though they pay payroll taxes, state and local sales taxes, property taxes, or excise taxes.

Hundreds of young people whose families, friends and neighbors will not receive checks today surrounded the White House to demand that President George Bush not delay their families' just treatment. The group later joined Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Children's Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman on Capitol Hill in a rally to call on Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) not to go home for summer recess without helping them.

"Friday, the very day child tax credit checks will be sent out, Members of Congress plan to return to their districts for the August break. Republican House leaders are ready to go home without extending the tax credit," said Rep. Pelosi. "Democrats won't leave the House without it."

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=137-07232003

Both Democratic leaders in Congress spoke at a rally today. Did anyone see this on the news anywhere?

Edit to add- Here's the Rush take on these children "demanding their freebies":

http://rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_072203/content/stack_b.guest.html

[Erika]

1. U.S. Newswire carried a notice

Little people and their problems aren't a great concern to our D.C. people. I hope there is a way that we can get this group and so many of our middle income to get out and vote and stop this redistribution of the country's wealth to the wealthy!

[buff2]

2. I didn't see any rally......

But I'm wondering how many of these folks who won't get any checks will vote for dim son next election?

[Erika]

3. The Little People Pay Taxes Also.

Hannity and Fox/Bush News are trying to convince people that the poor don't pay taxes. They do; payroll taxes, gas taxes, sales tax, excise, ets. If D.C. had really wanted to help the working peoople and get the economy going, they would have reduced the payroll taxes...not the income taxes.

[xchrom]

5. more likely

they don't vote at all.

[NYC]

4. Ch. 2 CBS showed them in midtown this morning before they boarded

the buses.