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Al Gore Proposes $2.9 Trillion in Spending -- 3 Times More Spending Than Bill Clinton! Gore?s Spending Promises Run 32% Over The Budget Surplus. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the non-Social Security surplus over the next 10 years will be nearly $2.2 trillion. According to a recent estimate by the National Taxpayers Union, Gore?s budget proposals will cost $2.9 trillion creating a deficit of $700 billion. (?How Presidential Candidates Proposed Spending Has Progressed,? National Taxpayers Union Foundation, September 26, 2000; ?The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update,? Congressional Budget Office, July 2000)
Gore?s Spending Spree Could ?All Too Easily Lead To A Return Of Deficits.?
?Mr. Gore?s initiatives are of a kind that could all too easily lead to a return of deficits if the budget surpluses don?t materialize as planned. He makes more proposals than Mr. Bush for entitlements -- programs that continue without annual appropriations. . . . He would increase government spending substantially more than Mr. Bush, would cut taxes less, and would aim more of his tax cuts to specific taxpayer behavior.?
(Bruce Bartlett, ?The Cost of Keeping Gore?s Promises,? The New York Times, August 22, 2000)
Al?s ?Goregantuan? Spending Is Like Nothing Since The LBJ Years. ??These are very, very, very large spending increases. The vice president really has proposed a dramatic expansion in the role and cost of the federal government,? said Carol Cox Wait, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ?There?s really nothing like it until you go back to the spending programs of LBJ?s Great Society social-welfare spending.?? (Don Lambro, ?Federal Role Big In Gore Proposal; Spending Increase Largest Since LBJ,? The Washington Times, September 20, 2000)
Gore Still Doesn?t Have Enough Money To Pay For All His Promises. ?[E]ven though projections of the federal budget surplus have soared, Mr. Gore still doesn?t have enough money to pay for all his campaign promises. So he?s adopted something of a now-you-see-it, now-you-don?t campaign style.? (Bob Davis and John D. McKinnon, ?Basics of Campaign Math: Promise High, Budget Low,? The Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2000)