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...filters of the future are in our heads, not on the mouths of pipes," he said. "We should be able to celebrate the abundance of our great resources, not squander and ration them. We must get back to a feeling of kinship with nature...
...surplus, of course, is what also allows Bush to propose a $1.6 trillion tax cut while promising to spend $402 billion (about twice what Clinton-Gore promised in 1992) on education, defense, health care and a prescription-drug plan. And for all Gore's talk about risky schemes that squander the deficit, it's worth remembering that spending the surplus on a big tax cut and somewhat smaller spending plans isn't inherently "riskier" than spending it on big spending plans and a smaller tax cut. Both men blow through the money. The challenge is to identify the priorities embodied...
...type of exchange Bush dearly wants to avoid--he had no choice but to shoot back. And so Bush began exchanging fusillades with Gore, each claiming his plan would do more for middle-class people than the other guy's would, and each charging that the other would squander the nation's projected $4.6 trillion budget surplus (see chart). Gore asserted that his tax plan, which could cost up to $620 billion over 10 years, was more prudent and fair than Bush's, which would run $1.6 trillion over nine years. The Bush camp countered that Gore's plan would...
...type of exchange Bush dearly wants to avoid--he had no choice but to shoot back. And so Bush began exchanging fusillades with Gore, each claiming his plan would do more for middle-class people than the other guy's would, and each charging that the other would squander the nation's projected $4.6 trillion budget surplus (see chart). Gore asserted that his tax plan, which could cost up to $620 billion over 10 years, was more prudent and fair than Bush's, which would run $1.6 trillion over nine years. The Bush camp countered that Gore's plan would...
...prosperity of the Eisenhower years in 1960, Bush must exploit Americans' desire for what chief strategist Karl Rove calls "reasonable change"--a yearning for what they already have, only better. And so the Bush pitch is basically this: that he will be a centrist consensus builder who won't squander today's prosperity but will make Americans feel good about their leader again...