News
- 02-09-04 Deficit - Bush Seeks Additional $1 Trillion of Debt (Washington Times)
"President Bush, saying the economic recovery is firmly in place, yesterday proposed adding $1 trillion to the national debt to fund the cost of shifting to a partially privatized Social Security system." 2-04
- 02-10-04 Deficit - Bush Defends Tax Cut Policy (CNN News)
"President Bush lashed out at Democratic rivals who want to roll back his tax cuts as he defended his economic priorities in a presidential primary state where his record has been harshly criticized." 2-04
Papers
- Budget Deficit - Tradeoffs (National Priorities Project)
"Could your tax dollars be better spent? Make a selection in each of the three fields below and just click to find out what else your tax dollars could provide." 2-04
- Budget Deficit - View of Democrats (Democrats.org)
"President Bush has released his budget for the fiscal year 2005, and it spells disaster for America. His failed economic policies are saddling the nation with enormous budget deficits as far as the eye can see. Working families will be paying off the Bush debts for generations." The individual taxpayer burden for the deficit alone seems to be between $2,000 and $2,500 per year in most states. 2-04
- Budget of the United States for 2005 (Whitehouse.gov - Bush)
"Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2005 contains the Budget Message of the President, information on the President’s budget and management priorities, and budget overviews organized by agency, including assessments of their performance." 2-04
- Cutting the Budget Deficit in Half (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - Kogan and Coven)
"The Bush Administration has said it has a plan to cut the deficit in half in five years, as a percentage of GDP. However, this plan is likely to be largely a public relations gimmick. The Administration will print a budget that, on paper, has figures for the fifth year (2009) that show the deficit being cut in half. But that will only be possible because, as has been the case with previous Bush budgets, it omits major, costly items that the Administration favors and intends to request — later." The authors present what has been left off of budgets in the past. 1-04
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