Another Reason Republicans Must be Removed from Power in Washigton

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president would reduce expenditures by $187-billion over five years, including a politically gutsy attempt to cut Medicare costs. But his tax cuts would reduce revenues by $285-billion over the same time period, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. In the end, the deficit would grow by an additional $192-billion.[...]
Many of Bush's spending cuts will make little difference on the bottom line but a great difference in individual lives. By reducing or even eliminating programs for the poor and elderly, he would hurt vulnerable Americans. Ultimately, any real spending reform will have to take on entitlements: Medicare and Social Security.
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by proposing to eliminate the $255 death benefit, which would hurt the poorest survivors, and slipping support for private accounts into the budget, which has already been rejected by Congress.

In fact, most notable in this budget is its deception. Here is what Bush left out of the expense side: substantial costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a permanent fix for the alternative minimum tax, which has failed its purpose by strapping more moderate-income families with higher taxes. And he is not being honest about the negative implications of his budget on future deficits.
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