Bush v. Kerry on the Deficit
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Both candidates have plans for dealing with our fiscal mess. But neither are addressing the real problems
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Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry pledged in an editorial to restore fiscal discipline in the United States if voters send him to the White House, and to shrink the deficit by one half in four years.
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During this presidential election campaign, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are wrangling over a lot of things, but at least one important subject isn&#39;t getting the concentrated attention it deserves on the campaign trail or from Washington.
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Think of the uses of $300 billion, the annual gap between what taxpayers owe and what they pay. It would more than cover the federal deficit for a year or the extra money President Bush wants in 2007 and 2008 for Iraq and Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON - The Congressional Budget Office projected Tuesday that this election-year's federal deficit will hit a record $422 billion, a shortfall that would be smaller than analysts predicted earlier this year.    The estimate by Congress' nonpartisan budget experts immediately provided political fodder for both parties in the final two-month stretch of the presidential and congressional campaigns...
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John Kerry, the four-term Massachusetts senator, benefited from three debates with President George W. Bush to draw about even in voter preference and erase Bush&#39;s advantage on personal
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GREENSBORO, N.C. - Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Tuesday's projection of a record budget deficit this election year and the continuing movement of U.S...
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ST. LOUIS -- President Bush and Sen. John F. Kerry sparred Friday night over Iraq, taxes, abortion and stem-cell research in a wide-ranging and heated debate that painted two vastly different portraits of America and its place in the world.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush is now in a statistical dead heat with Democratic challenger Sen. John Kerry for the Nov. 2 election, in a tightening of the race after the first debate last week, a pair of new polls show.
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President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts now have debated three times in the 2004 presidential campaign.
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With President George Bush safely back in the White House, and with no need to face the voters again (American presidents are only allowed two terms), is he not duty bound finally to do something about America&#39;s terrible twins - a current account deficit
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President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry differed sharply on Iraq, jobs and taxes in their second debate on Friday, with Kerry questioning Bush's judgment and the president accusing Kerry of crumbling under political pressure.
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ST. LOUIS  - President Bush and Democratic  challenger John Kerry differed sharply on Iraq, jobs and taxes  in their second debate on Friday, with Kerry questioning Bush's  judgment and the president accusing Kerry of crumbling under  political pressure.
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The nation's budget deficit will drop to $205 billion in the fiscal year that ends in September, even as a worsening deficit picture for future years makes it more difficult for President Bush to meet his pledge of a surplus by 2012.
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WASHINGTON -- The federal deficit surged to a record $413 billion in 2004, the Treasury Department announced Thursday, injecting the figure into a presidential campaign in which the two parties have clashed over President George W. Bush&#39;s management of
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Over the next 10 years, the nation&#39;s cumulative budget deficit will soar to $2.3 trillion, the CBO projected. And if President Bush succeeds in making his tax cuts permanent, as he&#39;s vowed to do if re-elected, the 10-year deficit could top $4 trillion.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush and Democratic Sen. John Kerry have starkly different economic priorities with a common thread: price tags exceeding $1 trillion that could pump already huge deficits skyward over the next decade...