Donate your tax rebate
Soon you'll receive your tax rebate in the mail. Consider donating your rebate to the American Red Cross to help save lives. You'd be amazed at how far your gift will go to help those affected by disaster:
- $600 buys food for a week and clothing for a family of four.
- $300 buys five days of meals and motel stays for one displaced disaster victim.
- $250 provides emergency shelter and food for 50 disaster victims for one day.
- $100 buys replacement prescription medication, like insulin, blood pressure or seizure medication for 3 disaster victims who have lost everything.
- $50 buys 10 new blankets in an emergency.
Your tax-deductible gift -- in whatever amount you choose -- will provide disaster relief and other essential Red Cross services in your community, and around the world.
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Congressional leaders and White House agreed to set aside $20 billion for rescue efforts, repairs and counterterrorism work. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bill Young said lawmakers hoped to have the spending bill on Bush's desk by Thursday.
