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A Windfall for Pols: That Congress Will Spend Our Surplus is Safest Projection
Submitted by Sally C. Pipes on 10.26.2000
Presidential politics is at times reduced to a numbers’ game, as evidenced by Governor Bush’s and VP Gore’s bickering over tax cut and new spending numbers in their debates. Each candidate speaks with exactness about the parameters of their proposals and certainty about their ability to implement them. But budget numbers, anything outside of two weeks, are notoriously uncertain. And what neither candidate will recognize is that all the money they’re throwing around-that estimated $4.6 trillion in budget surplus over the next decade—may be spent before it ever makes it to Washington.
Profit-First Politics Reaps Cynical Voters
Submitted by Justin Matlick on 10.18.2000
As a challenge to the proverb, some things aren’t for sale,” James Baumgartner founded Voteauction.com, a Web site offering to sell presidential votes to the highest bidder, in August.
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