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...success of two of the more established on-line travel sites, travelocity.com and expedia.com, has further paved the way for myriad other websites that allow users to search for low plane fares in any number of ways. Sites such as priceline.com even allow consumers to bid for surplus seats, while most of the major airlines sell bargain basement "e-saver" fares through their websites and e-mail databases...
Unfortunately, this is the case. About half of the $1.6 trillion tax cut--that's more than half of the projected budget surplus, which is itself a wobbly estimate and is already being spent by Congress--will go to families with an income over $250,000. Princeton economist Paul Krugman estimates that even a family making $80,000 a year would get less than $20 per week off its taxes once the plan was fully phased in; a family making $1 million would get $1,000 per week. Giving surplus money back to the people is the backbone of self...
...letter to Lieberman calling his remarks "inappropriate" and "unsettling." But the vice-presidential nominee was just getting started. He praised the Democrats' prescription-drug plan as a way to keep the Fifth Commandment to honor thy father and mother, likened Al Gore to Joseph for shepherding the surplus to prepare for lean years ahead, and cast Clinton as Moses for parting the Red Sea with his economic program. The latest battle over the appropriate place for piety in politics was joined...
Gore has not abandoned all his Democratic tendencies. He makes up for his smaller tax cut with gigantic spending proposals like a proposed increase in child health-care coverage and a prescription-drug benefit under Medicare. Ultimately, Gore would spend about as much of the surplus as Bush. The only difference would be where the money goes. Once either set of proposals was in place, it would be no easier to scale back Gore's prescription-drug entitlement than to reverse Bush's tax cut. Says Reischauer: "Why should today's policymakers dissipate tomorrow's possible surpluses...
...tried to say "tariffs and barriers" but came out with "terriers." He declared he would never allow rogue nations to hold America "hostile." And he ended a confusing riff about federal budgets with the vague assurance that "we've still got trillions of dollars left in the surplus." Aides explained away the slips by saying he was tired. But it was only August, and Bush had been away from home for all of one day. The next morning, as his campaign jet idled on the runway in Des Moines, the Governor strolled back to the press corps and allowed that...