Word: surplus
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...surplus...
...Daschle and Dick Gephardt, armed with posterboards, announcing the minority party's counteroffer to George W. Bush's $1.6 trillion baby: $900 billion. No details - the Dems are still squabbling about what kind of tax cuts they want - but some proportions. With the projected non-Social Security surplus at $2.7 trillion, Daschle and Gephardt did sketch out a general surplus plan: one third for tax cuts, one third for debt reduction; and one third for new spending (education, a Medicare prescription drug benefit and the like...
...cuts, along with what he promises will be healthy dollops for debt reduction and new programs, but he doesn't have all the details yet either. He submits his budget plan to Congress on Feb. 28, after addressing a joint session with a state-of-the-surplus address the day before...
...count on the surplus. As in, George W. Bush...
...wanted to know how big a tax cut was "too big." Maryland Democrat Paul Sarbanes went after Greenspan with the jailyard shiv of Senate committee warfare - press clippings - quoting departed fiscal hero Robert Rubin and Newsweek contrarian Allan Sloan both savaging the idea of tax cuts based on these surplus projections...