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...made some convenient assumptions--including an unlikely 3.2% growth rate for 2002--to pad its budget by a few extra billion. They say the Administration's projection that its tax cut will cost $1.35 trillion is a wild understatement. A new study by the International Monetary Fund buttresses their argument. It puts the cost of the tax cuts at closer to $2.5 trillion. Which means that, with honest accounting, Bush's budget would already be nibbling at the Social Security trust fund...
...lobby will argue: Laws don?t matter to criminals, they?re just going to get around the laws," says Webster. "It?s only infringing on rights of law-abiding citizens. There are a couple of responses to that argument. One, when you force criminals to go out of state, you increase the price of guns, sometimes substantially, not just in terms of actual price but in terms of time, risk and hassle. And two, this research seems to suggest that if broader laws were in place in more states, it would make criminals even less likely to own guns...
...time for somebody outside the Army to get this post. The Army has had the last three chairmanships - I guess Gen. David Jones was the last Air Force guy to have it, and that?s been 20 years. You could make the argument that it was about time for the Air Force to get a shot at the top military job, and that?s what?s happened...
...argument: One: never mind about the surplus - the tax cut was the surplus, and the people deserve it returned to them. Two: never mind about the tax cut - not only did the people deserve it, they needed it, thanks to the stumbling economy that he inherited from Bill Clinton. And three: never mind about what Democrats say we could have spent the money on instead - economic growth comes first, and that was what...
...That leaves the Democratic leadership with the tax cut. Their best argument, of course, is that the tax cut, over its 10-year life, is a budget-buster, and they may yet turn out to be right. But budget fights happen one year at a time, and this fall, Democrats will have to do what Democrats have always done when Republicans try to give away their hard-earned tax receipts: Find "spending priorities" that Americans would have preferred to $78 billion in tax cuts for 2002, and convince them to take their remorse out on the Republicans. (The Dems...