91.   Once the budget has been approved, the opposition will have fulfilled its campaign promise to try to ease the burden on low income earners, legislators said.

92.   --One tax issue never mentioned is the impact of the Social Security tax on low income workers.

93.   People with relatively high incomes would be ineligible, as would people with incomes so low that they do not have to pay income taxes.

94.   People often moved from low incomes as young people to high incomes in later years, Hubbard concluded.

95.   Sales taxes are inherently regressive, sopping up a bigger part of low incomes than of high ones.

96.   So, despite discounts here and there, many Medicare recipients, especially those with low incomes, must keep struggling to buy their prescription medications.

97.   So if schools attempt diversity by taking the best students with low incomes, they still end up with mostly-white classrooms.

98.   State officials redefined eligibility for Medicaid, a health program normally reserved for people with low incomes.

99.   That stasis led naturally to a large scale abandonment of the schools once they inevitably became mostly black, brown, and of low income.

100.   The bill was opposed by Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, who argued that a tax hike on cigarettes would disproportionately hurt low income people.