Important elements of the economic plans of President Bush and Democrat John Kerry. All figures are totals for the 10 years ending in 2014 unless otherwise indicated.
Kerry's Initiatives:
Expand health care coverage, $653 billion.
Education, $207 billion.
5 percent corporate tax cut, $120 billion.
Veterans and military families, $55 billion.
Temporary jobs stimulus, $47 billion.
Energy and environment, $35 billion.
Kerry's Savings:
Repeal Bush tax cuts on people earning more than $200,000 annually, $860 billion.
Create a commission to recommend ways to reduce federal payments to corporations and enact those proposals, $300 billion.
Better disease management by companies and other health savings, $300 billion.
Close loopholes on taxes owed by companies overseas, $120 billion.
Cut 100,000 federal contractors, $50 billion.
Cut federal electric bill by 20 percent, $14 billion.
Bush's Initiatives:
Extend tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003, which otherwise expire by 2010, $979 billion.
Tax cuts and spending increases for health care, economic development, education and jobs, $74 billion.
Other tax cuts for education, charitable giving, other items, $199 billion.
Other initiatives for which White House has provided only five-year numbers: Defense and domestic security, $185 billion.
Bush's Savings, Cost Over Five Years:
All other domestic programs, excluding automatic benefits like Social Security, $115 billion.
Medicaid and other benefit programs, $33 billion.
