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Skip to comments.Tax Foundation Rips Santorum Tax Plan (Grade: D+)
Posted on 02/18/2012 11:26:25 PM PST by JediJones
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"Children of tax-PAYERS are more likely to be future tax-PAYERS, producers, not a demand for entitlements."
You seem to have a logical contradiction here. By tripling tax deductions for children or, heaven forbid, tripling the child tax credits, Santorum would turn tax-PAYERS into tax-FREELOADERS.
Tripling the exemption would mean a family with 4 children would pay no income tax on the first $66,000 of income not even counting any of their other deductions. A family like Santorum's own, with 7 kids, would have to earn over $100,000 before they owed a dime in federal income tax.
Children raised by parents who never owed taxes are unlikely to support smaller government when they expect to duck out of paying for big government by shifting their tax burden just like their parents did.
Wow, you really dislike Santorum more than Romney? No way, I hope.
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1) We don't need to penalize success by having a 28% tax rate when a single 15% rate for everyone generates the same tax revenue.
2) We don't need to eliminate the AMT, we need to make it apply to everyone. While some people must pay 15% because deductions don't reduce their income significantly, nobody's deductions should reduce their income such that they pay less than 10% of AGI. Hence we need an AMT that applies to EVERYBODY, not just upper middle income and rich people.
3) Eliminating the death tax means people can leave money growing in investments, deferring taxes the whole time, and then passing it along to their children where it will never be taxed. I don't see why those investment gains should not be "realized" at time of death, subtracting the costs of the investment to arrive at net gain, and taxing the estate's income as capital gains before it is passed on to the heirs.
4) If the single rate for individual income taxes is 15%, I don't see the point of a special 12% rate for capital gains and dividends. Let all income be treated equally.
5) Very bad idea. The exemption is currently $3,650 per dependent. Tripling it to $11,000 per dependent means a family with 4 kids would make the first $66K of income untaxable. The taxes they do not pay must be extracted from other people. Families should not expect to be able to push their tax burden onto the shoulders of their neighbors who chose not to have children.
6) A flat 15% tax already eliminates any marriage penalty.
7) Every favorable tax treatment for people who made these choices requires the government forcibly extract more taxes from people who did not make those choices. People should not be making these choices at the expense of their neighbors who earned the same income but spent it differently.
8) Principal residence, secondary residence, etc. should all be treated as investments and capital loss should be without limit just as any gain would be taxable without limit.
9) It doesn't matter what you cut the corporate tax rate to, it won't eliminate the overhead of compliance or the lobbying in DC. The only way to eliminate the corruption and wasted productivity is to eliminate the corporate income tax entirely. Taxing corporate income and then taxing individuals on their dividends and capital gains amounts to double taxation. Eliminate taxation at the corporate level and tax it as income to the individual shareholders.
10) Don't play favorites. Eliminate the corporate income tax for all industries, not just manufacturing.
11) Tax credits are unnecessary when their is no corporate income tax.
12) No special treatment is necessary when there is no corporate income tax.
I have nothing against home-schooling, but it is an admission that our actual school system is failing. I don't see people as "economic units" but I see our success as a society defined significantly by how successful our economy is. Seeing as home-schooling is an economically more inefficient way of getting the job done (just as churning your own butter would be vs. buying it in a store) it is far from an ideal solution.
I believe in school choice and dismantling the government monopoly on education. Just like welfare, a government school should be the option of last resort. If we all were free to use our school taxes to pay to go to any school we wanted to, then a greater variety of schools would be created. I would expect that many people home-schooling would be able to find a school that fit their values and standards better. Of course they could always home-school anyway if they chose to. I'm worried about the people who feel they need to do it because there's no good alternative, not the people who want to do it.
No I have not. You have conflated two separate issues: deductions for children and bracketing of tax rates. They are separate. Just because the deduction takes a payer at current rates down to zero total, does not mean that the deduction is bad policy.
Children raised by parents who never owed taxes are unlikely to support smaller government when they expect to duck out of paying for big government by shifting their tax burden just like their parents did.
I agree that most everyone should pay some tax.
I don't want government to maintain a monopoly on the schools. I want people to have school choice and have the equal opportunity to send their kids to any school they want and one that represents their values.
And you think that Rick Santorum is insulting to women?
Never once did I say Rick Santorum is insulting to women. Don't put words in my mouth. It's silly to take anything I said as an insult, when I'm specifically saying women have far more ways to contribute to society and the economy than only by raising children. By your logic, I could say you're insulting to children, because you think they need parental supervision to properly develop as individuals and can't do it on their own.
I think too much mothering and parenting is one of the bad trends in our society, hence we now have kids who are supposed to be able to stay on their parents' health insurance to age 27 and are still living at home at that age. I think kids should be working as early as possible while they go to school and be kicked out of the nest and pay their own way as early as possible. For the amount of time I think a kid should be spending with his parents, both parents would have more than enough free time to have at least a part-time job. Certainly in my experience, most of what I learned I learned from the world outside the family home, not from my parents. If I listened to them, I'd be a Democrat. When you have Democrat parents but you go to a traditional Catholic school like myself, you can see how I was much better off with the values I was taught at school than the ones I was taught at home.
At any rate, that's my opinion, and there's no reason for you to be insulted by my opinion or for me to be insulted by yours.
Not true, I believe in school choice and getting the government out of schools. Not to mention, I think our day care centers are generally run by private industry as they ought to be, not by state-run brainwashing centers. Every parent should have the options under the free market to find the education and institutions that best suit their values.
I have no problem with parents who have the means to do so performing these tasks themselves, but I do not agree with having my tax dollars subsidize them in doing so. That's the collectivism, socialism and statism you're talking about, the idea that my tax money should be taken and used to pay for someone else's lifestyle choices.
I said NOTHING about bracketing of tax rates in my post to you.
My post was strictly about your suggestion that tax-PAYERS should have more children, but the article is clear about Santorum wanting to drastically increase the tax exemptions for children, thereby turning tax-PAYERS into tax-FREELOADERS.
It doesn't matter if there are multiple tax brackets as Santorum wants or a flat single rate tax. What matters is the use of deductions to exclude huge portions of what would otherwise be taxable income. Santorum would increase the exemption to $11,000 per dependent which would quickly eliminate all tax liability for a majority of those tax-PAYER parents you talked about.
Perhaps then we should have an amendment to limit government spending to remain at or below a certain percentage of the GDP. Any revenue taken in that goes above that amount due to fluctuations in the economy should either be returned to the taxpayer or put in a rainy day fund for when revenues received do not meet the funding requirements.
You nailed it, dt57. It's worth repeating. I agree completely. Anyone who truly understands what's ailing our country and our government would have to agree with your spot-on analysis of the candidates.
Anyone who uses such a term is a mindless cliche dispenser unworthy of the time or effort a serious conversation requires.
I don't use politically correct language, I use accurate language. I care about the truth, not about whether I offend people or not. It's not right when liberals ignore a person's message and instead attack their choice of language as "offensive" and it's not right when conservatives do it either. The point of language is to convey meaning. The only language that is wrong is language that confuses. Bottom line, it's a simple, commonly known descriptive term to denote stay-at-home moms and not offensive at all unless you choose to read that into it yourself. Someone could make the argument that it's ideal for women to be "barefoot and pregnant" and that's perfectly legitimate of them to have that point-of-view, because the term itself is not insulting, it's colorfully descriptive and an exact synonym for "stay-at-home mom."
Just like when he jeered and sneered at Newt's social security reform (which Cain agrees with too).
I found the page on their site where they explain their grades for all the candidates' plans:
Some of their complaints about Newt was him keeping the charitable deduction. I happen to disagree with them there strongly. Any method for diverting money to charities instead of the government is a good thing. They also complain that it's unclear when Newt's transitions take place such as from social security payroll tax to private accounts. That's a pretty thin criticism. At least Newt is planning to do it, I'm not too worried at this point the exact date it's going to happen as long as it does happen.
So then you'd be okay with cutting the income tax to 0 for black people and cutting the income tax in half for all other races? The different tax rates Santorum's proposing for different industries probably shouldn't even be legal under equal protection laws. What's moral, just or right about one business being discriminated against vs. another?
What in the world are you talking about? This is not the Tax Policy Center, it's the Tax Foundation. That was identified in the very TITLE of the article, and the article itself links to their web site. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you were just confused and not posting intentional lies in an effort to defend your candidate. This is their web site:
Funny, that's exactly the logic Santorum used to object to Newt's social security reform. He called Newt creating private social security accounts a "new entitlement" ("in his post-debate interview with Hannity, he called Gingrich's Social Security privatization plan a new entitlement program because it would entitle people to keep money they would otherwise pay to the government"). And that very social security reform would largely reduce the burden on "future generations" to pay for older people's social security. The current model is an unsustainable and inequitable Ponzi scheme. The solution to it is reform based on private accounts, not on trying to find new people to enter into the bottom of the pyramid scheme.
I haven't seen that data. Please link to it if you have it available. But keep in mind my goal is not to increase or decrease child-bearing. I was simply saying there should probably be reasonable ways to accomodate mothers with children that still allow society to benefit from their participation in the work force. The choice should not be solely between women having no children at all and working vs. quitting work entirely and staying at home to raise children. I'm looking for a middle ground.
Why wouldn't it encourage low-income families to have more children? Maybe not the lowest income who don't pay taxes, but there may be people at the low end of the tax-paying scale who can cut much or all of their tax burden with the additional child credit. It would then be debatable whether those families would qualify for other public assistance to support those children.
He was among the most big spenders Republicans in the Congress. As Senator, Santorum was a prolific supporter of earmarks, having requested billions of dollars for pork projects in Pennsylvania. In 2009, he declared, I have had a lot of earmarks. In fact, Im very proud of all the earmarks Ive put in bills. Ill defend earmarks.
He voted for the 2005 highway bill that included thousands of wasteful earmarks, including the Bridge to Nowhere. In fact, in a separate vote, Santorum had the audacity to vote to continue funding the Bridge to Nowhere rather than send the money to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Santorum: "People say that I voted for The Bridge to Nowhere. I did. I went with the federalist argument, which is, Who am I in Pennsylvania to tell Alaska what their highway priorities should be?
The NTU rating of Congress shows that Santorum has a terrible record on taxes and spending in each of his two Senate terms. In the 2003-2004 session of Congress, Santorum sponsored or cosponsored 51 bills to increase spending, and failed to sponsor or co-sponsor even one spending cut proposal.
Santorum is also a big fan of government regulations. He even boasted about sponsoring a bill to regulate price gouging and unfair pricing by the big oil companies. He also voted YES on Sarbanes-Oxley, the bill Newt promised to repeal in his first day as president.
Santorum had flip-flopped on governments role in the housing market. In 2000, Santorum encouraged more home ownership, particularly for low-income families, with the help of government assistance, whether it was through the Federal Housing Administration, or Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. However, he changed his tune in in late 2005 (before the senatorial election), when he urged the reform of Fannie and Freddie.
Santorum - no fiscal conservative, pro-spending, pro-big government, pro-regulations, pro-more subsidies, more welfare, pro-gloated nanny-state ... How can ANYONE believe that he has any intention to reverse the flow of money pouring in Washington?
Very liberal of you. You think you're entitled to the fruits of others labors to grow government even more. You sure you didn't make a wrong turn and accidentally end up on a conservative website?
"Santorum was a prolific supporter of earmarks, having requested billions of dollars for pork projects"
In 2006 at the Pittsburgh Zoo, Santorum boasted in front of local reporters about how hed fetched $500,000 from federal taxpayers' money to build one of the most luxurious polar-bear exhibits. "If the pot of money is there, Im going to make sure we get a piece of that money," he said.
Also in 2006, he earmarked $500,000 for the completion of the Pittsburgh bike trail.
Another pork secured by Santorum in 2003 was $3 million for building a parking garage, another $2 million for another parking garage in 2005 ...
In his career as senator, he required $3.5 billion in earmarks and sponsored spending bills of a total $53 billion.
Just imagine if 100 Senators did the same as Santorum, the government spending would have grown by $5.3 TRILLION.
"Rick Santorum is a pro-life statist. He is. You will have to deal with it. He is a big government conservative. Santorum is right on social issues, but has never let his love of social issues stand in the way of the creeping expansion of the welfare state. In fact, he has been complicit in the expansion of the welfare state." Erick Erickson
Now you're talking. The Leftists, who would love to pass a "balanced budget amendment", would run the other way on a SPENDING LIMITATION AMENDMENT.
Can you imagine any Dem voting for that? He's probably get kicked out of the Party. Be hard to get the votes for that.
Great. Typical liberal debate tactic — when you can't argue the point, you start insulting the other person.
My post said NOTHING about how much the government should spend. Taxes WILL be collected to cover the spending one way or another unless you think deficits can just go on forever, and if some people are allowed to freeload, those taxes must be extracted from others. So your championing untaxing the estate is also an attack on everyone else with regular investment income, forcing them to pay higher taxes to make up the difference.
How about explaining why one person must pay taxes on their investments just because they happened to sell them while alive while another person's estate should not have to pay taxes on the same type of investments just because the previous owner died. I don't think you understand what I wrote and how different it is from how inheritance tax is done today. Today, the full inheritance is taxed at 55%, while my post was to tax only the NET gain at the same 15% rate that other investments pay.
If any investment is going to be taxed, all investments should be taxed.
Not twice as they are today at the corporate level and then again as capital gains as liberals like, not deferred forever as eliminating the death tax would accomplish, but ONCE at the individual level when the gains are realized so all investors and investments are treated the same.
Imagine two seniors with 1000 shares of Apple stock. They both get sick. One of them sells his stock to prepare for hospital bills and realizes a $400K gain, must pay $60K in capital gains tax, and then dies leaving $340K to his heirs. The other just dies and his heirs get the full $400K tax free since you eliminated estate taxes and the senior never realized his capital gains so never paid the $60K tax that was deferred while he held the investment. Explain why you would treat these two investors differently.
Conservatives should NOT favor unequal treatment. I can see why you like Santorum. He's not a fiscal conservative, and neither are you. You're both social engineers, looking for ways to shift tax burdens around as though government should be making people's decisions for them.
"I knew it when he jeered and sneered at Cains 999 plan. Hes not interested in reforming anything ...just sticking to the status big gov quo."
That moment is exactly when I dismissed Santorum as a worthy candidate.
That's one of the most idiotic things I've ever read on this forum.
You're the poster child for an ignore feature.
Having more children is only good for society if the people having them have the means and capability to support their children. IMHO...I see way too many people who have children who have no apparent means of supporting those children. No, I'm not saying you have to be rich. But you should be able to pay for your children's food, clothing, home and education w/o government support.
Jedi, the point is that the job is not getting done by educators. I home school in order that the job get done, and get done properly. I don't homeschool because I want to, but because it is the only way I can get the job done with the resources God has given me. It is my responsibility to educate my kids, not the government's. It is far less "efficient" in the long run, to produce an uneducated and/or reeducated young adult.
I believe in school choice and dismantling the government monopoly on education. Just like welfare, a government school should be the option of last resort.
Only if personal exemptions are also abolished. Otherwise people with kids or those who earn less than the exemption are indirectly subsidizing those who enjoy the full exemption. Personally, I like a flat tax with some amount for each individual in the household exempt from taxes, so that basic needs can be met before taxes come out. Better yet a NRST exempting wholesale food, rent and mortgage interest on a primary residence. Better privacy with a NRST, and more incentives to save and invest.
That's a fair point, but ignores the utility that can't be quantified in dollars and cents - that of parental bonding and the competitive diversity that it breeds. Plus, if I had to churn my own butter I'd be able to retire my shake weight :)
Standardization brings efficiency; true. But it also tends to stifle innovation, as most efficient producers and economies of scale drive out competition. School choice and breaking the NEA and teacher unions are essential, but to see that supplemented with millions of home schooled kids raised with strong family bonds would bring long term advantages that we can't even foresee.
All Santorum has to do is drop the 0% manufacturing tax rate and he's golden. Cutting the corporate tax rate in half across the board would make the economy soar, manufacturing along with it. In fact, manufacturing has recently gained traction as a sector.
Maybe Romney could take the VP slot ;-)
Thanks for showing that the Mitt/Rick plan is working according to mitt's/the GOP E plan.
Yet, the deceived will never 'get the obvious' because they listen to the deceiver. They've spent 3+ years working on their plan, you guys will 'get it' when this country is no more and/or blaming someone else.
We'll see what you say when said "child" of your kind ends up being a corrupt cop who rapes you and your family in jail.
For your information, each and every Balanced Budget Amendment I have seen getting fairly strong support from GOPers and conservatives has included a cap on % of income that the Fed can take from us. There are at least two proposals in the Senate that I cloud live with. I doubt that Rick's or Mr.Newt's proposals would be substantially different.
I wholeheartedly support a BalBud Amendment of that type, and furthermore, believe that until and unless we get such a law in place, the US will get crushed by our own profligacy.
Thank you for your post suggesting that the organization making this "report" and grading the GOP candidates may not be reliable.
You are correct. The "Tax Policy Center" doesn't look like any kind of a conservative group. I wouldn't pay any attention to their "grade" of Rick's tax plan. Let's wait and see what a real conservative group like the Club for Growth has to say about Rick's plan. I'm sure a real group of economic conservatives would give his plan at least a B grade.
The stuff posted on this thread is not mainstream conservative ideas. This thread is crawling with amateur and professional democrat operatives bashing away at Rick, as if anyone cares what they post on this thread. Don't pay attention to the polls manufactured by liberal media/academics or trash posted on the internet by democrats claiming to be conservatives. Obama is in serious political trouble and we're going to defeat him in November, with either Romney, Gingrich, or Santorum.
Right on target. The group that produced this report does not appear to be any kind of conservative tax policy group.
Can't disagree w/your statement; however, it is extraneous to the point I was making.
Perhaps I did not do a good enough job of explaining it; at any rate it is rather a secondary issue and there are many more that should be considered as to whether Rick is a good candidate or not.
"This proposal of Santorum's is about which kind of children we want: children of payers v. children of users."
Santorum is right for wanting to make things easier on middle class income tax-PAYING parents.
"Which kind of Children." That is discrimination.
Make ALL Children - Children of Taxpayers is how you make it easier on the middle class. Put the Freeloading parents to work through welfare reform.
How exactly do you think Santorum can give something to the taxpayers but not to the Freeloaders.
However, ....The Tax Foundation echoed concerns expressed earlier this week by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center that tripling the child tax deduction could push more low-income families off the tax rolls .... is what concerns me about this assessment, from either organization.
One organization (TF) may be concerned about the expense (although why someone at TF thinks a low-income family pays Federal Income tax is completely ludicrous -- what they should have said is that it will allow more middle income real-tax payers to keep what they earn) ), while the other (TPC) is just plain concerned that their constituents somehow won't be able to get the credit AND EITC (and whatever other credit they can get) if their AGIs are too low. If the TF were totally non-partisan, they should have opposed the proposal on its own demerits. The should have taken great pains to separate themselves with TPC....
What's the %? What's Santorum explicitly endorsing (s/b demanding)? Funny how that never gets talked about even though it's a HUGE issue. If the big government folks, whose numbers seem to be increasing all the time, get their way, they'll just bang the "balanced-budget" drum so loud that enough people won't require a "cap." Without sufficient pressure for a "cap" there most certainly will not be one or else it will be accompanied by a million exceptions.
I wholeheartedly support a BalBud Amendment
Why would you support that instead of a SPENDING LIMIT AMENDMENT? All a balanced budget amendment would do is shift government's total irresponsibility onto the backs of the American people. Do you think these career politicians care about balancing a budget? All they care about is a guaranteed lifestyle, and they get that by SPENDING (and taxing when they can get away with it).
A balanced budget amendment doesn't address the core issue which is OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING. The budget problem is a byproduct of the core issue. We need a spending limit tied to some % of the GDP that reasonably would allow balance or surplus at a 15% or so SIMPLE flat tax rate. We had something along those lines not too long ago in the 90's before Bush and Obama pushed the Government Spending Economic Mayhem Button.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating. The reason you'd have hell to pay trying to get a spending limitation through is what I alluded to earlier. These guys have no intention of cutting spending or government. That's why you could probably get a BalBud Amendment, but not a LimitGov Amendment, passed. It would guarantee the Socialist state we're headed for where the budget is balanced alright and everybody works for the government.
As Cyrano de Bergerac was quoted, "No thank you! No, I thank you! And again I thank you!
"I also dont believe keeping half the population barefoot and pregnant can sustain our economy."
Seriously? You sound like Robert Gibbs.
There's a difference between a distinction of race, and treating different classes of business differently.
Did you know that businesses already get hit with different levels of taxation? Hotels have all sorts of taxes, phone companies pay a different set of taxes, airlines have different taxes, oil companies, car companies; there are different deductions, different taxes, different treatments for all sorts of things.
In the end, I wouldn't think doing different tax rates would be all that workable, and a single tax rate is preferable; but there is a fundamental difference between a company engaged in manufacturing, and a company engaged in retail marketing.
The real problem is when we pick winners and losers — giving one company in an industry a tax break for doing what government wants, giving them a competitive advantage. A steel company isn't competing with Target. So the steel company having a different tax rate isn't really going to distort the market.
Like I said, I can't imagine that a 0% tax rate for manufacturing could be opposed by conservatives. In the end, I can't imagine too many conservative saying "Well, if we can't give Walmart a 0% rate, we'd rather Alcoa pay 12.5% as well".
[A balanced budget amendment doesn't address the core issue which is OUT OF CONTROL SPENDING.]
Let me suggest the way to control spending is to yank the printing presses away from Bernanke. That is the real control lever.
Well, of course, the out-of-control FED is a HUGE problem that facilitates the rest of our out-of control federal gov't.
Yet your analysis requires assumptions based upon their construction. You omitted those facts, making it a deeply flawed analysis when considering the pure impact of the magnitude of a child credit, which is the topic of the thread, because your assertion depends upon it entirely. I promise you: practically every parent in my area would still be paying plenty of taxes no matter what child deduction Mr. Santorum is contemplating.
My post was strictly about your suggestion that tax-PAYERS should have more children, but the article is clear about Santorum wanting to drastically increase the tax exemptions for children, thereby turning tax-PAYERS into tax-FREELOADERS.
Your example relied upon wildly inflated assumptions re the number of children that would result, particularly because tax-paying families are now having kids at below a replacement rate (which should concern you). In fact, the US birth rate is now lower than it has ever been. Few would choose to grow their family from one-to-two to seven kids upon the basis of a a tax deduction. That was just silly. Just the housing requirements alone would make that virtually impossible.
Santorum would increase the exemption to $11,000 per dependent which would quickly eliminate all tax liability for a majority of those tax-PAYER parents you talked about.
Sounds like a lot eh? Human Events reports an average American cost of raising a child at between $10,000 and $14,000 per year.
First, you have supplied no analysis that supports your assertion. Second, it would be true only if the rates and brackets remain the same, which is what I said, which is why I brought up rates and brackets believing just as you do that all able bodied adults should pay a tax. That Santorum does not propose an adjustment there is, in my judgment, the real fault of his plan, not the magnitude of the child deduction he is proposing (and we'll get to that). Right now, the tax code penalizes marriage and child-rearing, which, in my opinion, is a bad thing. I never said I was happy with his plan; I was merely talking about the principle of increasing the deduction for dependents, to which I wish to add another point in a bit.
It costs our family a lot more than $14,000 a year to support a child, particularly when marginal housing, and transportation expenses are included, never mind higher education. And remember, even if we got $11,000 as a deduction, it would not anywhere near cover the cost because of our marginal tax rate. Hence, those who are not raising the kids are currently FREELOADERS on the investment of the parents for the reasons I stated above. They're getting the returns of taxes paid by the children when they become adults without having born the costs, yet those without kids are getting the same return as the parents on the tax receipts and productivity of those kids once they become adults.
Now, as to that other bit, there is another class of dependents from which we as taxpayers would gain a great deal if the deduction for dependents was increased and this cuts directly to the demand side for government spending on this question, something that you are ignoring totally: making it more affordable for more families to educate their children at home and care for the aged in their homes.
Care for the aged and public education are where the real bulk of government spending at all levels really is. And that money goes almost entirely to Democrats.
An analog of this proposal has a good shot at reducing that demand, especially if it is structured as a credit instead, something that is entirely up to Congress. Yes, I think you would agree that society would benefit immeasurably both fiscally and socially if more people could home school and care for their dying parents.
70% of our medical dollar, about 10% of the entire economy is spent on end-of-life treatment. Were the aged cared for at home that number would be vastly reduced both in the cost for services and the quantity of services demanded. I don't think I have to tell you how much the country would benefit were more children home schooled but in addition, both the burden on terribly cash-strapped states and the size of the Democrat welfare state bureaucracy (for both education and juvenile delinquency) would take an enormous hit in short order. You would get back your $11,000 on the cost of public schooling alone.
So yes, I'm all for proposals that strengthen the family, yet I do agree that all able-bodied citizens should be conscious of their responsibilities to all. It is just as (and perhaps even more) important in rebuilding this country to get people to re-assume their familial responsibilities instead of foisting them on government, just as I believe that able-bodied seniors should perform public service such as tutoring and day-care in return for their welfare entitlement, er... "Social Security" (and please don't tell me they've paid for it because we both know that is not nearly true). Taking the transfer of a culture out of the hands of the single moms populating day-care centers would benefit both children, seniors, and society at large.
What is undesirable to me about using income tax deductions is that the case is so hugely different in a high tax State like New Jersey or California compared to, for example Mississippi. In the former case, Santorum's proposed deduction is insufficient, while in the latter it is indeed excessive. Better that it was a percentage than a fixed amount. In principle, I would have preferred an NRST, but the problems with the IRS having its nose in every transaction plus the scale of organized crime that would develop at this rate of revenue demand are untenable. You have no idea the degree to which computerized transactions enable social engineering when those considerations are inserted into a sales tax.
Finally, I don't think I need to add at this point that I regard Mr. Santorum's proposal as half-baked; it is. Yet remember: IT IS CONGRESS THAT WRITES THE TAX CODE. So, I appreciate that Santorum is emphasizing the disproportionate burden parents are bearing in our society, particularly those who pay upper middle class taxes. It means that, should he become elected, this issue will get the consideration it deserves. Our society depends upon it getting fixed.
I can't believe what I'm seeing here.
First, I saw FReepers attack Sarah Palin for not being "conservative enough". Then, it moved onto Herman Cain, then, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry. Newt is claimed to be "not conservative enough" and now Santorum is not "conservative enough". Records are distorted, words are taken out of context, unfair comparisons are made.
As the circular firing squad continues, hopefully, some of you will plainly see, the one left standing is Mitt Romney.
The liberal media is doing a job on each of our candidates and sadly, I'm seeing some of those talking points repeated here.
Some of you are going to be so spent after months of attacking other candidates that when it comes to the actual election and defeating Obama, you'll feel defeated already, which is, of course, the goal of the media.
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I can get ezzo from RDP food distributors here in columbus, but often find that it's too much for my needs. If we ohioans wanted to band together, we could get some ezzo. I don't know if they have the supreme special, but I got a 38mm pep that without the casings that was pretty good for pre-sliced pepperoni. It only comes in 25 lb cases, and is about $100, which I'm told works out to about a penny a slice. Lemme know if this is something anyone is interested in and we can work it out.
Boy times have changed. When I used to order Ezzo for the shop(s) that I worked for, I think that it was something like $39/box.
I'd be in on a group buy, but I don't think that it would be worth the effort unless there was significant savings. $100/box comes to $4/lb. PennMac sells it for $4.99/lb.
Boy I sure wish I was within driving distance of Penn Mac...I had to quit them because of their "handling" fees. You'd think that Styrofoam cooler was made of gold....even on a dry goods order they sur-charge waaay too much.
Aimlessrayan, think about it. Why should they sell to you at the best price when you are buying consumer quantities. They are not Walmart, they are a wholesale company selling to wholesale buyers. You want wholesale prices buy at wholesale quantities.
Did I have a point? I don't remember. S! Ryan, my apologies.
If you live in Houston, Vermont Smoked Pepperoni is back in stock at Central Market I restocked my pantry today!I have to give them some customer service credit. I sent one email, and they got the job done!
How much do they sell that for Craig? Also, do you know if they carry the brands of aleppo pepper and calabrian chilies that you use? Thanks...my sister lives in Houston and I'm thinking care package time.
Boy, they ain't shy in Vermont
No, but I don't know if it is really all that out of line. The Molinari pepperoni I bought when they were out of Vermont was maybe $1.50 or so less, but it wasn't half the pepperoni in quality or flavor. You can't compare the Vermont to things like Hormel, Boar's head, etc. They are very different products. CL

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A recent feature on population in the Economist discusses economic challenges when a nation's population falls. In this feature, "How to deal with a falling population", 28 July 2007, the Economist tries to minimize concerns about world population by saying that we are "hardly near the point of [resource] exhaustion".
The Economist received a flood of letters insisting that rising world population and resource depletion are indeed serious problems. So many comments were sent in that the Economist published a follow-up piece, Population and its discontents: Lighten the footprint but keep the feet. This too highlighted deep misunderstandings about the relationship between population and humanity's demand on our biosphere, and in particular, confusing population growth rates and population size.
Quite simply, our ecological demand is the product of 1) the number of people times 2) per-capita demand (consumption) times 3) the efficiency of production. Each of these factors contributes to humanity's Footprint, and each is important to address.
The Economist believes that we only have to focus on the efficiency side of the equation, but as population increases, the amount of earth's resources available per person goes down, making it more difficult for people to meet their needs.
Since 1961, global population has increased over 200 percent, while average demand per person has increased by only 30 percent. Even if average global consumption rates stabilize or decrease, we will still go further into ecological overshoot, if population increases as all models project.
Ultimately, at a global level, both population and consumption are primary reasons that humanity is exceeding the planet's ecological limits. To get out of overshoot we must openly address all the factors that contribute to it - efficiency of production, rates of consumption, and population.
For all of humanity to live well and within the means of one planet, we must begin addressing the number of feet as well as the size of the Footprint.
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I fully agree that it is scientifically senseless to play the right-side factors of the I=PAT equation off against each other. Sure, we can try to measure each one's contribution, but we should quit playing the game of 'My Favorite Footprint Culprit'.
I believe we should give up hope of 'tinkering' and pussyfooting around on the right side of the equation. Footprint policy (reducing impact) should start on the LEFT side. If each political unit (country, usually) really stayed within its caps - whether fresh water, soil, carbon fuels [or emissions] - then each political unit would decide what combination of P, A, and T is desirable. If policy changes any of the three right-side factors, it changes the other two as well. I.e., at best complicated, at worst simply ineffective.
Thank you.
R. Overby raises a critical issue - Earth is not just for one species, which of course it is absolutely not! The Footprint is highlighting that what humanity is doing is not working for humanity, let alone the rest of the hundreds of millions of other species and ecosytems, on which humanity depends. The Footprint is deliberately constructed this way (setting aside all the other issues, the ethos that all life has an intrinsic value etc) to communicate to those operating from a hard-nosed, utilitarian view of nature, its still not working!
While you identify 3 part to our our ecological demand "1) the number of people times 2) per-capita demand (consumption) times 3) the efficiency of production." You only provide data for the first 2. It would obviously be helpful in developing a credible view of things to see the data for all 3 areas.
It would also be interesting to see good data, if it exists, on the % of our production that is wasted, not through inefficiencies of production but through waste itself, or through lack of use, spoilage, etc.
As with most things, reducing waste by say 25% should, realistically, have greater than an equivalent reduction in initial demand. A 25% reduction in "end product" demand is something that I've recently started looking at personally as a current goal.
I don't see any mention of other than humans. On Earth are also other lifeforms; som still truly wild, others increasingly not. To cram more people on to Earth, 'developers' will gladly get rid of all wild life;putting a roof on the Grand Canyon; filling it with people, and produce food for them as in 'Soylent Green.'
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met today with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. Before their meeting, Secretar Clinton said:
"...It is such a pleasure for me to welcome not only a colleague, but someone who has become a friend over the last years and whose opinion I value greatly on not just matters related to Poland and Europe, but indeed global issues as well. I look forward to a productive meeting and the opportunity to reaffirm the absolutely unbreakable friendship and alliance between the United States and Poland.
"We have a full agenda that will concentrate on three essential areas: building our mutual security, expanding prosperity, and promoting democracy. On security, we will discuss America's unwavering Article 5 commitment to Poland and to all NATO allies. As was announced by our two presidents in December, we plan to establish a new permanent U.S. air detachment in Poland, build missile defenses in Poland, and as agreed at the NATO summit, develop a contingency plan in the region. And I want to thank Poland and in particular the minister for the very strong contributions that you have made to the fight against extremism in Afghanistan."
Secretary Clinton also spoke to Poland's history and the example it sets as more people around the world demand that their voices be heard. The Secretary said:
"...Since the days of the Gdansk Shipyards and Solidarity, the Polish people have known that no country can be fully secure and prosperous unless its people have a voice in their own affairs. And in just two decades, Poland has built a transparent and representative government with a vital vibrant civil society. And in fact, Minister, Poland serves as a model for others to learn from. Government officials and civil rights activists from Afghanistan, Jordan, Egypt, and elsewhere have visited to learn firsthand about your inspiring transition to democracy.
"I also greatly appreciate Poland's partnership in reaching out to the people of Belarus, including holding a donors conference for civil society organizations there. And I look forward to supplementing our strategic dialogue with a democracy dialogue, which will further our cooperation in supporting emerging democracies around the world."
You can read the full transcript of Secretary Clinton's remarks with Foreign Minister Sikorski here. The Secretary and Foreign Minister signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Cooperation in Clean and Efficient Energy, which you can read about here.
Andy in Europe writes:
The United States must acknowledge that NATO is a European organization with origin, composition, military and political headquarters all in the heart of Europe.
NATO is PRIMARILY a European defence alliance: "The European Allies". 25 out of 28 NATO members are entirely European, only 2 out of 28 members (US and Canada) are non-European and only 1 member (Turkey) is located partly in Europe and partly in Asia, which sums up to the 28 NATO countries.
21 out of these 25 entirely European NATO countries are at the same time core States within the political European Union (EU+NATO). However, EU is also constituted by an additional 6 European democratic, secular, capitalist states traditionally non-aligned to the US foreign policy branded word "NATO", which altogether sums up to the 27 European Union States.
In the light of recent world events, the US needs to in the long run back off from Europe and let the European peoples determine their own future without regards to US interests and foreign policies. In other words, the US must take a strategic political backseat in NATO (regarding Europe) and let the European friends and allies use NATO as their own defence vehicle to perfect their own Union, with their own internal European structures.
The democratic, secular, capitalist European States will always stand by their American cousins, Article 5 or not, but America must never use NATO to prevent or block internal European military or political integration.
Patrick in Maryland writes:
I like what was said about working together.
The only way were going to have the capacity, too keep up with the needs of our growing countries,is by working together.
This is what i think they're saying.
Anyways, have a great weekend Hillary & DipNote folks. :)


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (105 votes).
In short: Excellent. Definitely up for this one again next year.In full: I live locally in Croydon but didn't realise Beddington Park was so nice. A real eye-opener and a pleasant surprise.Date of review: October 29, 2006
In short: Excellent value for money race in picturesque surroundings of Beddington ParkIn full: I found this to be a thoroughly enjoyable race in very picturesque surroundings. It was deal for inexperienced runners in particular with helpful stewards on hand. A bargain at £10 including a donation to Save The Children plus medals and t-shirts for all. I'm already looking forward to next year's event. Date of review: October 29, 2006
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In short: The Marshalls could have been more supportive.Date of review: October 29, 2006
In short: Not a bad race, good value though for your moneyIn full: Could do with some more organisation at the start as very few helpers knew what was happening. Shame as for me that tainted what has the potential for being a very good race.. Date of review: October 28, 2006
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April 7, 2014, Monday
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But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. — Matthew 6:33
So do not worry, saying, "What shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "What shall we wear?" For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. — Matthew 6:32-33
In the book of Matthew, Jesus tells us that if we seek first the things of God rather than the things of earth, we will find what is truly of great value.
This doesn't mean that we shouldn't take care of our families, our jobs, or of the many details we need to attend to every day. Instead, Jesus is telling us that if we make seeking God's salvation, living in obedience to Him, and sharing His Good News with others our priority, He will take care of our other needs in the way He knows is best.
In the following pages, you'll meet people who have achieved significant "firsts," in terms of their careers, their contributions to the world, or their service to others. While each of their "firsts" is unique, what all of the people behind them have in common is a history of first seeking God, then trusting Him to provide the way.


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When it comes to the recent tragedies involving "bullycide," how are we as parents supposed to cope? As a community?
In school bullying, we are being left with cries for help that never came; or worse, those cries for help that did come and were left unanswered. Bullying is casting a large shadow, in which the parents, siblings, teachers, students, community and lastly the bullies will be forever changed.
Bullying has indeed changed. "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me," will never ring true again. Unfortunately, skin and bones have the ability to heal quicker than emotional wounds. Words have become even more important and more potent, and – unfortunately – more damaging then ever.
In "bullycide" answers are few and far between. The grief that follows is abundant and harsh. We want to know that our loved ones did not die needlessly. It's no wonder that it has the ability to divide schools and communities.
We as the community of Fort Dodge cannot let this divide and conquer us. We have to come together and teach these children that even when the world becomes so hard that they see no way out, we will move mountains for them to make this wrong, a right. We have to stand up for our children. When we see it occurring, or see the signs, when it's being minimized and mishandled, we have to show true courage when being challenged with this. To make waves, to ask tough questions. This epidemic can be prevented if we pool the power of this community together.
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Good now, sit down, and tell me, he that knows,
Why this same strict and most observant watch
So nightly toils the subject of the land,
And why such daily cast of brazen cannon,
And foreign mart for implements of war;
Why such impress of shipwrights, whose sore task
Does not divide the Sunday from the week;
What might be toward, that this sweaty haste
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Who is't that can inform me?
–Marcellus, in Shakespeare's Hamlet
Human beings, with our diversity of gifts, talents, and dispositions, were created to, as Adam Smith put it, "truck, barter, and exchange." In other words, we were made to trade.
But we were not created to be constantly trucking, bartering, and exchanging. That's the central truth about humanity that the commandment concerning Sabbath rest communicates:
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Over at The Gospel Coalition today, I expand on the news of Amazon's new delivery service on Sundays to discuss "Sabbath Rest and the Moral Limits of Consumption."
Just as we sleep each night to give our bodies rest from daily labors, our souls (as well as our bodies) need rest from mundane and worldly activities. This is the kind of rest that the Sabbath is designed to provide. The Sabbath principle calls us to rest from the gratification of our earthly desires, whether they be morally permissible or not, and whether we consider them to be work or leisure.


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Would toasting the flour in the oven also denature the gluten?
And, far be if for me, a Yankee, to tell a Southerner how to make roux, but, if you're going to use oil, you really should add it at the beginning.
Interesting thread...FYI, in France, a roux isn't colored at all. When making a traditional French Roux, it will start to blanchier or whiten up, at that point you know the flour has been cooked and you take it off heat.


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Conversations with the Director: Daniel Payne
November 21, 2013
Discussing 'Art of Collaboration' in Jordan MERS-CoV Investigation
Daniel Payne walked into the conference room with CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, ready to share stories and answer tough questions during a Conversation with the Director.
Daniel Payne walked into the conference room with CDC Director Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, ready to share stories and answer tough questions during a Conversation with the Director. With his razor stubble and open collar, Payne looks more like Hollywood's casting choice for the role of a private eye or crusading journalist rather than an epidemiologist. But looks are deceiving.
Payne is an expert in his field, and he came prepared. He brought scientific articles that he and colleagues had published earlier in the year in The New England Journal of Medicine and Clinical Infectious Diseases, and the current edition of Emerging Infectious Diseases, for which he has served as a guest editor. He also gave Frieden materials from a Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) outbreak investigation that he led in Jordan in the spring.
Frieden listened intently, and occasionally jumped in with questions. Payne described the fruits of investing in scientific collaboration. He currently leads a large, pediatric viral disease surveillance system called the New Vaccine Surveillance Network. This network of research sites is now in its ninth year of studying the burden of pediatric viruses, including gastrointestinal viruses on young children, and the impact and effectiveness of vaccination in protecting children against these viruses. The many pediatricians, virologists, laboratory specialists, and epidemiologists who are part of the seven participating research sites have published more than 50 studies using NVSN data.
Payne said that, "Since many gastrointestinal viruses are not commonly detected in routine clinical practice, we proactively collect data on them through a surveillance system. With about a dozen CDC staff working on the project and about 100 staff at large US medical institutions contributing their efforts, just managing the network provides an incredible opportunity for scientific collaboration."
After a half hour of this discussion, Payne launched into what had driven his invitation to talk with Frieden: a sero-epidemiologic field investigation for MERS-CoV that he led in Jordan.
"It really was a successful mission," Payne said. "And obtaining any new knowledge of this emerging and elusive virus is a success in itself."
"Well, Jordan has been a very good collaborator, right?" Frieden commented.
"Fantastic. We were warmly received, and it was a productive work environment for our investigation team. We felt that anything that we asked for, we were provided. Overall, we had a wonderful collaboration with the Jordan Ministry of Health, as well as with several important regional partners."
An outbreak of severe, unexplained respiratory disease had occurred at a northern Jordanian hospital in 2012. "Only upon the discovery of the new virus later that year, and the subsequent testing of archived specimens, did we retrospectively determine that this respiratory disease outbreak in Jordan had been associated with MERS-CoV," Payne said. "We realize now that this was the first known instance of a MERS-CoV outbreak." The finding was important, because ten years prior, another coronavirus called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) caused a global epidemic of severe respiratory illness. The Jordanians invited CDC to join this investigation after serologic tools had been developed. "The only way to really retrospectively determine what had happened during this first known MERS outbreak was through serological antibody tests. And those tests were rapidly produced here by a team of CDC laboratory experts led by Dr. Lia Haynes and were ready by the time we were invited."
Payne recounted the difficulty of retracing the outbreak's progress amid less than ideal infection control conditions in Zarqa, a major industrial city northeast of Jordan's capital of Amman. He described how the investigation team toured the hospital wards on the first day in the field. They walked into a patient care room and, upon hearing the Arabic translation, they realized they were standing where the first people with MERS-CoV infection had received care. For a disease that kills over half of those known to be infected, it was a chilling visit and had him lying awake for the next few nights at the slightest sense of a cough. He praised the public health response of the Jordanian Ministry of Health once they grasped the severity of the outbreak.
"If you look back at the local press reports from the time, there actually were concerns that SARS had returned," Payne said. "They knew they had something infectious and severe."
"So, they controlled it without knowing what it was," Frieden said. "What did they do?"
"In order to halt transmission, they referred their entire critical and intensive care patient population in one fell swoop to a facility where the patients could be isolated."
Frieden was interested in the first identified MERS-CoV case and the possibility that the virus can jump from animals to humans.
"No one really knows how the first cases were exposed," Payne said. "There are new reports of camels that have tested positive for antibodies to MERS-CoV. However, many of the patients from the outbreak live in industrial areas and do not have contact with camels, sheep, or any other animals."
Bats provided a possibility, but proved difficult to determine.
"There is bat genome in MERS-CoV," Payne said. "So, we were asking everyone during our interviews, 'Have you seen bats nearby?' Usually people had not, until the husband of one of the first cases responded that, 'Yes, there is a bridge near our house [that housed a bat colony].' His wife would often go by it on her way in to work. So, after the interview we went directly to this site, peering into recesses in the bridge, looking for signs of animal habitation, and taking photos of possible bat nesting areas that we could send to veterinary epidemiologists for their review. But, we couldn't find any apparent link there, and hit a dead end zoonotically."
Frieden pointed to another mystery: Why didn't the disease take root in any of the hospitals that transferred MERS-CoV patients? The team took blood samples from 89 healthcare workers, both at the outbreak hospital and at the transfer hospitals. "We found no other evidence of infections among healthcare workers at the transfer hospitals," Payne said.
"That's interesting and encouraging," Frieden said. "So, you had cases among outbreak hospital workers but none at the transfer hospitals where patients were isolated. That's an important finding: if you do a good job with infection control, things can turn out okay."
"Exactly," Payne said. "Although we may not yet know the source of the cases, if you follow proper infection control procedures, you may be able to keep transmission under control. One conclusion that we drew from this experience is it wasn't just an investigation and not just surveillance. The most important aspect to successful missions, like this one, lies in the art of collaboration—of listening carefully to scientists, key informants, and experts in the field, and making good judgments and taking decisive action. I think our investigation team hit that on the head."
This Inside Story by Luis M. Luque
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The program is designed to prepare job seekers with disabilities for successful job placement in supported or community employment and to have students actively participate in their communities. The goal is to provide a range of activities that advance students toward their personal and employment goals.
To that end, students at each site participate in both work activity and floor production tasks as well as participate in classes. Weekly job preparation classes, computer training, leadership groups, communication classes and daily current events are held at both sites.
Sites also offer varied elective classes and activities to enhance students' skills and abilities while preparing for community employment through the vocational work activity programs.
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Students are transported from their homes to the HOPE-De Anza site by regular public transportation, Mv Transportation, or VTA Paratransit, depending on determination by the San Andreas Regional Center case manager.
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There are no visits available during college breaks or on college holidays. Check dates on the De Anza website calendar.
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HOPE-De Anza classes follow the De Anza College's quarter system calendar, with the exception of summer. The HOPE-De Anza program offers an 11 week Summer quarter, in contrast to most on-campus classes that last 6 or 8 weeks. The start and finish of each quarter corresponds basically to the four seasons of the year.
Once enrolled, it is the expectation that students attend through the entire quarter period, after which they may re-enroll for the next quarter (see Enrollment section, below.)
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New Students
New students who wish to enroll in the De Anza program at HOPE sites must be referred by the San Andreas Regional Center (SARC) or the State Department of Rehabilitation (DR). They may join the program only when the referral process is complete.
Continuing Students
Students enroll for one quarter length session at a time. To continue in the following quarter session's classes, students must re-enroll quarterly. Re-enrollment takes place at each HOPE site and is facilitated by the De Anza instructor.
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Community college enrollment fees are set by the state of California. However, for most HOPE-De Anza students there is no cost to enroll or the fee is very nominal.
Students referred for the program by the Regional Center or Department of Rehabilitation may be eligible for agency funding for the program. Most students receiving Social Security Disability Income (SSDI ) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) qualify for fee assistance through the Board of Governor's Grant Waiver (BOG-W program.) The HOPE-De Anza staff will provide assistance in applying for this and can provide additional information.
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The HOPE-De Anza program is one of four programs that comprise De Anza's Disability Support Programs and Services Division. Three on-campus programs offer services and classes on the college's main Cupertino campus . These services and classes address the needs and goals of college students with disabilities who are enrolled and matriculating in the academic and vocational programs at the community college.
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