Word: surplus
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Dukakis, a former governor of Massachusetts who was the Democratic nominee for president in 1988, touched on several key issues in the upcoming election, including the federal budget surplus, the minimum wage, health care and campaign finance reform...
Gore plans to devote about 3% of the budget surplus over the next 10 years--$171 billion--to reducing America's reliance on oil and gas (and to clean up the environment). His program includes tax breaks to companies that use renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, federal investments in light rail systems and high-speed trains, grants to small businesses to develop new energy-efficient technologies and tax breaks to families that purchase energy-saving cars, homes and appliances. Gore opposes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
Gore would use the budget surplus to pay down the debt, and use the savings on interest payments to extend the life of Social Security for several more decades. Bush's campaign, by contrast, questions whether Gore will raise the program's eligibility age to cover the cost of baby boom retirees...
...Making the case for change in an era of prosperity requires a complex argument, and this may be one of Bush's most nuanced yet. In the wake of Tuesday's news about a record annual budget surplus, the governor pressed the case that Al Gore couldn't be trusted to keep the good times rolling. Arguing that Gore blows the bank with his spending promises, W. resurrected the same liberal ghosts that his father used so successfully to haunt Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race. Though he didn't use the word "liberal," Bush said the vice president...
...Bush, as you may have heard, is running uphill on the issue: The economy is booming, the surplus is growing to (literally) unbelievable dimensions, and most folks seem content with the idea that the Clinton administration deserves the credit for it. Voters are traditionally hesitant to change their leadership in good times, and generally unmoved by a challenger's claims that fiscal boat-rocking - like a $1.3 trillion tax cut - is needed...