Word: surplus
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...especially its families. A vote against this resolution will assist the state in their efforts to improve public schools by decreasing class size and expanding early childhood education, open up health care accessibility for state residents and help build and stabilize Massachusetts' economy. Although the state has enjoyed a surplus in recent years, this money should be spent responsibly rather then be used to endorse a severe personal income tax cut for the wealthy...
Dolliole said Gore would emphasize in the next two days the "big choice" that voters face, asking whether they want to "squander the surplus" or protect Social Security and Medicare, and continue the prosperity of the past eight years...
PLAN: Devote more than a third of the projected surplus--$1.6 trillion--to tax cuts, including a broad cut for all income brackets. Double the child tax credit, give a credit to married couples regardless of whether they pay the marriage penalty, and repeal the estate...
...particularly the wealthiest third of taxpayers. The long-term effect is cloudy: Bush argues that his cuts will encourage the economy to keep growing, but the cuts could lead to inflation, and if things turn sour, ballooning deficits could return. And Congress is currently spending a fifth of the surplus...
...Florida, the campaign has put out a new ad hitting Bush for that allegedly overpromised trillion dollars of Social Security surplus - and draping the whole thing over a clip of the stumping Bush's flub/metaphor/incredible ignorance on Thursday about Gore's treating FDR's safety net "like it's some kind of federal program." (Which, by the way, Gore's surrogates have really latched onto, probably as a surrogate for the untouchable DUI story...