Word: budgeted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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GORE brings his Congressional experience and level-headed pragmatism to domestic issues as well. With the departure of Gov. Bruce Babbitt from the race, Gore is now the only candidate in either party with a credible budget plan, one that seeks to hammer out a new consensus on fiscal policy. Unlike Reagan, who scuttled budget talks by refusing to raise taxes or cut defense expenditures, Gore would put almost everything on the table. That's not to say, however, that Gore wouldn't have his own list of priorities: he'll cut spending where it doesn't endanger national security...
Compare that with the more simplistic and unrealistic proposals his rivals have offered so far. While Senator Paul Simon promises us that "the figures are there" to support his claims for both a massive spending program and a balanced budget, the numbers show otherwise. Gov. Michael Dukakis's budget plan, which consists of collecting unpaid taxes and saying that "tough choices have to be made," fails to make any decisions on taxes and spending. Jesse Jackson's plan to reduce the deficit by making very deep cuts in defense spending may balance the budget, but only by drastically weakening this...
...Jesse Jackson: The RainbowCoalition leader pledges to double the federaleducation budget, and calls expansion ofgovernment tuition subsidies the best way to bringup the decreasing minority enrollment levels inUnited States colleges. "Higher education must beseen as a right, and not a privilege, in ournation," he says...
...started a program to control Medicare costs by setting formulas for maximum payments based on estimated costs of procedures and treatments. Since then data collected on actual costs indicate, say health- budget experts, that payment schedules could be reduced by 7%. Payments would still rise with inflation, but the one-time adjustment would save about $5 billion...
...rising level of federal Medicaid reimbursement to the states, which helps pay for medical care for the poor, could be better controlled by pegging increases to the Consumer Price Index. The National Institutes of Health, whose budget has increased more than 50% since 1981, could withstand a 5% cutback without endangering vital programs...