Word: reductionism
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We cannot endorse the gutting of vital government services that benefit all Americans to fund an unneeded tax cut that almost exclusively helps the rich. Not since the days of the Smoot-Hawley tariff has such a bad idea gained such wide currency. Democrats and responsible Republicans should rally behind...
It must have been an interesting breakfast. There may be a touch of bad blood between the two - Bush's father blamed his 1992 unseating partly on Greenspan's reluctance to cut interest rates in the early '90s. Greenspan has made it perfectly clear (by his standard, anyway) that he...
For at the same time as Bush claims to be championing land conservation and clean air, his budget proposal includes an estimated seven percent cut in EPA spending over the next year. Under the circumstances, it is difficult to reconcile such a drastic reduction in EPA funding with Bush's...
And the costs of this science-fiction defense plan would be more than diplomatic. Bush called for the development of "effective missile defenses" in his budget speech Tuesday night, and administration officials have suggested that they have in mind a significant increase over the current $2.2 billion per year allotted...
Daschle's 10-year plan divides the $2.7 trillion projected non-Social Security surplus into thirds - $900 billion for tax cuts (vs. Bush's $1.6 trillion), $900 billion for additional spending, and $900 billion for additional debt reduction, above and beyond the Social Security surplus. (Bush's debt reduction comes...