Word: surplus
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...through the haze. The first is Bush's portrait of Gore as a retrograde liberal who wants to patch up the edifice of the Great Society. The second is Gore's portrait of Bush as a faithful servant of the rich and powerful who wants to wire-transfer the surplus into the bank accounts of the upper class, spending "more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%" than he does for new education, health-care and defense programs combined. Are Bush and Gore right about each other? Every campaign serves up a cartoon version of its opponent. But these...
...debate consisted of issue exchanges between the candidates, ranging from education, military readiness, the newly-approved abortion pill and the budget surplus during the 90-minute debate at Centre College in Danville...
...Ushered from issue to issue by Bernard Shaw, they covered all of them, almost. (Has there been some negotiated pact in these debates not to talk about guns?) As in Tuesday's faceoff, the core of this debate was the surplus and how to spend it - with so many policy roads leading back to it, both campaigns seem content to focus voter attention on this choice. Thursday was the annotated version. Though the totings-up of the two sides seem destined never to jibe, Cheney and Lieberman poked at each other's math dutifully but briefly. Never mind the numbers...
...contrast to Bush's large-scale reforms, the Social Security proposals of Vice President Al Gore '69 have been far more modest, consisting mainly of using the Social Security surplus to reduce government debt (the infamous "lock box") and a commitment to prolong the program through 2050 with general revenues--which must come from other taxes or from deficit spending. Gore has also argued in favor of a separate program to match the savings of lower- and middle-income Americans with tax credits. This proposal, which would improve personal savings in a progressive way, deserves serious attention...
...government, he added, will collect $4 trillion in surplus revenue over the next 10 years...