<HTML>In a message dated 5/30/2003 10:23:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, sawicky@bellatlantic.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">The header is inaccurate &the text below misleading. What was not included in the tax bill was an expansion of the Child Tax Credit that is still due to take effect in 2005 that might have been speeded up, along with all the stuff for higher income persons.  There is no elimination of any existing credit. </BLOCKQUOTE> But, regardless of the details in reporting, isn't the point really that part of the package, skewed as it is towards dividend and capital gains tax reductions ($149 out of $350 billion worth), provided a very minor (almost cosmetic) concession to the greater population via this child tax credit, and then reneged. So, though not cutting an existing credit, the final version did reduce a throw-it-in-as-a-bone tax credit measure for millions of people in the final moments, right? Nomi</HTML>