"$3 Trillion Price Tag Left Out As Bush Details His Agenda" and we say???

[sundancekid]

Analysis
$3 Trillion Price Tag Left Out As Bush Details His Agenda

By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 14, 2004; Page A01

The expansive agenda President Bush laid out at the Republican National Convention was missing a price tag, but administration figures show the total is likely to be well in excess of $3 trillion over a decade.

A staple of Bush's stump speech is his claim that his Democratic challenger, John F. Kerry, has proposed $2 trillion in long-term spending, a figure the Massachusetts senator's campaign calls exaggerated. But the cost of the new tax breaks and spending outlined by Bush at the GOP convention far eclipses that of the Kerry plan.

Bush's pledge to make permanent his tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of 2010 or before, would reduce government revenue by about $1 trillion over 10 years, according to administration estimates. His proposed changes in Social Security to allow younger workers to invest part of their payroll taxes in stocks and bonds could cost the government $2 trillion over the coming decade, according to the calculations of independent domestic policy experts.

And Bush's agenda has many costs the administration has not publicly estimated. For instance, Bush said in his speech that he would continue to try to stabilize Iraq and wage war on terrorism. The war in Iraq alone costs $4 billion a month, but the president's annual budget does not reflect that cost.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18876-2004Sep13.html

What do we say to this $3 trillion price tag? Who pays/benefits??
How can Kerry capitalize on this revelation???

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. I keep saying it ... 3 little words

Flim flam man

Everything Bush does is a flim flam!!! It's a pattern he's repeated his entire life. Straight shooter, my ass!!! Flim flam!