Holding Fast to a Policy of Tax Cuts (the limits of that polital promise)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/politics/07assess.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print

February 7, 2006
News Analysis

Holding Fast to a Policy of Tax Cutting

By ROBIN TONER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 — George W. Bush ran for office as a "compassionate conservative," arguing that Americans did not have to choose between huge tax cuts and a government that would do its part to address social needs like education and health care.

Now into his sixth year in the White House, Mr. Bush offered a budget on Monday that showed more clearly than ever the inexorable limits of that political promise.

Mr. Bush is asking Congress, first and foremost, to make his tax cuts permanent and to increase spending on national security, while looking for savings in popular domestic programs like Medicare and vocational education. The tradeoffs, to his critics, are achingly clear, and unfair.

Mr. Bush's budget began an ideologically charged debate in a midterm election year, with his party's control of Congress at stake. Democrats said Mr. Bush was proposing spending reductions that went well beyond fat to preserve his tax cuts for the affluent.

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1. Next 'State of the Union' Will;be on this

Local govt. buying back the Poor Peoples Farms. I am over 70 and grew up with a town that had them as all did. Good luck.