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Mixing new rhetoric about Republican economic values into his standard stump speech, Gore cast his opponent's plan in extreme terms, saying Bush's tax cut would either erase the federal budget surplus or take money away from needed social programs...
...water development has, like nuclear energy, amounted to a Faustian bargain between civilization and the natural world--which, as it happens, supports civilization. Hydroelectricity from Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State smelted enough aluminum during World War II to build tens of thousands of warplanes, with enough surplus power to make plutonium for the first atom bombs. But now, in the form of devastated salmon fisheries, Grand Coulee (along with countless other dams) is extracting an awful price for its creation...
STATE BUDGET SURPLUSES They are burgeoning, thanks to the steady growth of the economy. For fiscal 2000, nearly two-thirds of the states foresee a surplus of 5% or more Fscal 2000 (appropnated...
...political strategists about the presidential race, and you'll hear that Al Gore has an edge over George W. Bush on the big domestic issues. A majority of voters agree with Gore that tax cuts should be modest and the budget surplus should go to save Social Security and Medicare, that health coverage should be expanded and women should retain their right to abortion. But on at least one traditional piece of Democratic turf, Bush is sure he can beat Gore. Public education "is a bright and dividing line in this campaign," Bush said repeatedly last week. He called...
...throws money at the problem without demanding accountability, Bush demands accountability without throwing enough money. As Gore argued last week, Bush's proposed tax cut is so expensive--between $1.3 trillion and $2.1 trillion over 10 years, depending on whose analysis you believe--that it would exceed the projected surplus, leaving nothing for anything else. Blithely ignoring that problem, Bush proposes a five-year, $5.5 billion spending increase for education, but most of it would go to pay for tax-free Educational Savings Accounts and vouchers to let low-income parents buy after-school programs for their kids. Bush offers...