Word: offsets
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...have portrayed. Dole at worst showed a dismaying propensity to convince himself of what he wanted to believe: that he could conscientiously propose a big tax cut while preserving his hard-won reputation as a deficit hawk. Eventually he satisfied himself that he could cut federal spending enough to offset his tax cuts and balance the budget, even though he never managed to fill in all the numbers. His national campaign chairman, Donald Rumsfeld, scoffs that it is "absolutely ridiculous" to think Dole should "have to track every nickel down," though a skeptical public seems to demand just that...
Taylor was constantly checking with Domenici to make sure that he could find enough spending reductions to offset $500 billion to $600 billion in tax cuts and still balance the budget by 2002. At a meeting on July 13, Domenici said he could do it. He also warned that those cuts would be extremely difficult to make politically, but that did not seem to set off any alarm bells...
Dole has paid a heavy price for that coyness. It left him and his aides woefully unprepared for persistent questioning as to what spending he would cut to offset his tax cuts and balance the budget. Domenici's folks had suggested some specific spending cuts and the closing of some corporate-tax loopholes. Dole chose not to talk about those ideas, because he wanted to keep the spotlight on tax cuts rather than spending cuts and feared that loophole closing could be represented as a tax increase. Thus he was reduced to asking the public to trust him to find...
Cardin emerged as something of a political prodigy in 1966, when he was elected to the Maryland House at age 23. His restrained personal manner is offset by his intensity as a legislator: he co-sponsored the 1995 Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Bill and supported bills to cap medical-malpractice damages, increase the tobacco tax and deny welfare to children of illegal immigrants as part of the controversial Immigration Reform Bill...
Luckily for the Bears, the disappointing offense has been somewhat offset by a defense that has only allowed three goals...