Tax-cut total: $330 billion
Amount needed to provide health insurance for all 9.2 million currently uninsured children for one year: $13 billion
Amount needed to provide health insurance for all 41.2 million uninsured Americans, including children, for one year: $98 billion
Amount needed to close state budget gaps across the country: $78 billion
Amount needed to hire an additional 100,000 teachers to reduce class size, provide grants to repair 6,000 schools and assist with new-school construction, and provide additional math and reading help for over 9 million eligible low-income students: $300 billion
Amount needed to end homelessness for chronically homeless people within 10 years: $1.3 billion per year to create and sustain 150,000 units of permanent supportive housing
Amount needed by the Environmental Protection Agency to complete cleanups at high-priority toxic waste sites through the Superfund program: $92 million
Cost of Head Start for all 1.8 million children, up to 5 years old, who currently need but don't receive it: $25 billion

http://salon.com/news/feature/2003/05/29/tax_cuts/index.html
Streak wanted this added to the blog after our friend J-Dawg pointed it out--noting the conflict in morality between an administration that acts in the best interest of the powerful, while giving lip-service to "leaving no child behind" and "compassionate conservatism." The list is actually much longer on the site, noting the cost of doing things like Federal funding requested in 2004 for the national Abandoned Infants Assistance program: $45 million, and the cost of assisting states in covering the excess costs of providing special education services to children with disabilities: $8.9 billion.