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...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...
Bush portrayed the vice president as a creature of Washington who does not trust the American people to spend the budget surplus themselves...
Gore repeatedly used Bush's plans for the projected budget surplus to highlight a major difference between the two candidates, arguing that Bush's plan would use a large proportion of the surplus for tax cuts that would benefit only the very rich...
...government, he added, will collect $4 trillion in surplus revenue over the next 10 years...
...Certainly if the just-tuning-in, undecided voter were tuning in for issues, Round 1 could not have disappointed. On the surplus (big tax cut or small tax cuts), Social Security (privatize some or not), energy policy (drill Alaska or not to drill Alaska), and anything else one might have been listening for, the differences were clear and usually cheerfully admitted...