What Others Are Saying - Archive Newspaper Editorials Archive “Free-spending budget fails to address greatest needs” - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Feb. 9, 2004) “Totally reckless” - Columbus Dispatch (Feb. 8, 2004) “Bush gone when bill comes due” - The Forum (Fargo, ND) (Feb. 8, 2004) “Flawed federal budget will be a political challenge for Congress” - Morning Call (Allentown, PA) (Feb. 8, 2004) “Bush budget boasts sabers, security, domestic cuts” - Alameda Times-Star (CA) (Feb. 7, 2004) “Bush administration repeatedly fudges facts” - Modesto Bee (Feb. 6, 2004) “Budget to require some hard choices” - San Antonio Express-News (Feb. 6, 2004) “Pay-as-you-go/ Bush’s lopsided budget plan” - Minneapolis Star Tribune (Feb. 6, 2004) “Budget buster” - Arizona Republic (Feb. 5, 2004) “Bush’s budget proposal doesn’t deserve America’s trust” - Asheville Citizen-Times (NC) (Feb. 5, 2004) “Unwelcome message” - St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Feb. 5, 2004) “An act of fiscal malpractice” - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Feb. 4, 2004) “Americans will begin to feel the costs of tax cuts” - Buffalo News (Feb. 4, 2004) “Call them irresponsible…” - Charleston Gazette (WV) (Feb. 4, 2004) “A delusional budget” - Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (Feb. 4, 2004) “Bush spending plan isn’t grounded in economic reality” - News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) (Feb. 4, 2004) “Don’t swallow this budget bilge” - Roanoke Times & World News (Feb. 4, 2004) “Papering over the actual deficit” - Rocky Mountain News (Feb. 4, 2004) “Budget fudge President plays ‘hide the numbers’” - Sacramento Bee (Feb. 4, 2004) “Smoke and mirrors” - Salt Lake Tribune (Feb. 4, 2004) “A budget fantasy” - St. Petersburg Times (Feb. 4, 2004) “A budget we can’t afford” - Star News (Wilmington, NC) (Feb. 4, 2004) “Extra fuzzy math” - Baltimore Sun (Feb. 3, 2004) “Budget Priorities; We can’t have everything” - Dallas Morning News (Feb. 3, 2004) “The missing-numbers budget” - Oregonian (Feb. 3, 2004) “Budget shenanigans” - San Francisco Chronicle (Feb. 3, 2004) “Bogus Budgeting” - Washington Post (Feb. 3, 2004) “Missing Numbers / Bush budget proposal needs specifics, not just hope” - Detroit Free Press (Feb. 3, 2004) “Nation can’t afford the president’s budget formula” - Detroit Free Press (Jan. 22, 2004) “Face fiscal irresponsibility” - Columbus Dispatch (Jan. 21, 2004) “Recipe for disaster” - Times Union (Albany, NY) (Jan. 12, 2004) "There is no good news in record budget deficit" - Peoria Journal Star (Oct. 23, 2003) "Debt crazy/Reality check on Bush’s budget" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (Oct. 23, 2003) "Sound-Biting the Deficit" - New York Times (Oct. 4, 2003) "Bush's binge" - Baltimore Sun (Sept. 26, 2003) "John Snow's failed snow job" - Roanoke Times (Sept. 25, 2003) "$166 billion and counting" - San Jose Mercury News (Sept. 15, 2003) "Paying the Price" - Washington Post (Sept. 14, 2003) "In deficit denial" - St. Petersburg Times (Sept. 10, 2003) "How are we going to pay for Iraq occupation?" - Modesto Bee (Sept. 9, 2003) "...as bill for war comes due" - Des Moines Register (Sept. 5, 2003) "Deficit? What Deficit?" - New York Times (September 2, 2003) "Digging deeper" - News Observer (Raleigh, NC) (August 31, 2003) "Half-trillion in the red, and then it gets worse" - Palm Beach Post (August 30, 2003) "Deficit Delusions" - Washington Post (August 29, 2003) "Bush numbers don't add up" - Monterey County (CA) Herald (August 29, 2003) "More gloom in deficit forecasts" - Morning Call (Allentown, PA) (August 29, 2003) "Federal deficits threaten our economy, security" - Portland (ME) Press Herald (August 29, 2003) "Oh, it's only your kids' money" - Des Moines Register (August 28, 2003) "Adventures in red ink" - Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (August 28, 2003) "Divining the deficit" - Cleveland Plain Dealer (August 28, 2003) "The red menace" - Salt Lake Tribune (August 28, 2003) "Deficit disaster" - Florida Today (August 28, 2003) "Well, Mr. Bush?" - Times Union (Albany, NY) (August 28, 2003) "Bush's historic injustice" - Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (August 27, 2003) "U.S. Has Been Bushwacked on Jobs" - Philadelphia Daily News (August 14, 2003) "Tell taxpayers high cost to rebuild Iraq" - Peoria Journal Star (August 13, 2003) "Truth about tax cuts" - Boston Globe (August 13, 2003) "Red ink deepens; Federal budget deficit staggering" - Bradenton (FL) Herald (August 8, 2003) "A question of Bush's credibility" - Minot Daily News (July 23, 2003) "Managing the deficit requires shift in direction" - Modesto Bee (July 22, 2003) "Our growing deficit" - St. Petersburg Times (July 21, 2003) "Why Deficits Matter" -Washington Post (July 20, 2003) "Deficit debacle" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (July 20, 2003) "Bush's deficit" - Sacramento Bee (July 20, 2003) "Sky shouldn't be the limit for federal budget deficit" - News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) (July 17, 2003) "Growing, persistent national deficits are problem for economy and president" - Morning Call (Allentown, PA) (July 17, 2003) "Deficit anxiety" - Omaha World-Herald (July 17, 2003) "Deficit threatens nation, deserves Bush's attention" - Portland Press Herald (July 17, 2003) "Bush's budget binge" - Roanoke Times & World News (July 17, 2003) "The deficits mount" - Times-Picayune (July 17, 2003) "A ticking deficit bomb" - Times Union (Albany, NY) (July 17, 2003) "Federal Deficits" - Winston-Salem Journal (July 17, 2003) "Deep Debt, Deeper Trouble" - Los Angeles Times (July 17, 2003) "Tax-cut-and-spend policy only amounts to trouble" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (July 17, 2003) "Deeper in red, but who cares?" - San Francisco Chronicle (July 17, 2003) "Bush pushes tax cuts en route to record deficits" - San Jose Mercury News (July 17, 2003) "Cutting deficit must be priority" - Sun-Sentinel (July 17, 2003) "Wanted: Remedy for red ink" - USA Today (July 16, 2003) "It keeps getting worse" - Cincinnati Post (July 16, 2003) "Disaster $455 billion deficit" - Charleston Gazette (July 16, 2003) "Next generation will feel deficits" - Sun-Herald (Durhan, NC) (July 15, 2003) "Digging a Hole for the Future" - New York Times (July 12, 2003) "The Poor as a Handy Distraction" - New York Times (June 15, 2003) "Bush's bad deal" - Boston Globe (June 4, 2003) "Demise of tax credit for poor speaks volumes about GOP priorities" - Philadelphia Inquirer (June 3, 2003) "Waiting for the trickle-down" - St. Louis Post-Dispatch (June 3, 2003) "Fix the Child Credit" - Miami Herald (June 2, 2003) "No help for the working poor: Child tax credit vanishes" - San Jose Mercury News (May 30, 2003) "Out of luck / No tax cut for many families" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (June 3, 2003) "Billions in tax cut, but not a dime for working poor" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (June 3, 2003) "Oceans of debt / The future facing the United States" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (June 2, 2003) "Children Left Behind" - Washington Post (June 2, 2003) "A shortsighted tax cut" - Boston Globe (June 1, 2003) "The Tax Bill's Final Indignity" - New York Times (May 30, 2003) "A Hummer-Sized Loophole" - Los Angeles Times (May 30, 2003) "Tax cut tricks" - St. Petersburg Times (May 28, 2003) "Tax cuts will leave America seeing red" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (May 25, 2003) "'Little bitty' tax cut bathes us in red ink" - News & Record (Greensboro, NC) (May 25, 2003) "The grand illusion" - St. Louis Post-Dispatch (May 25, 2003) "Divisive tax bill tilts toward the wealthy" - Kansas City Star (May 24, 2003) "Bush gets what he wants / But a 'compromise' tax cut is a fiscal time bomb" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (May 24, 2003) "Yo-Yo Economics" - Washington Post (May 23, 2003) "Fiscal Poison" - Newsday (May 23, 2003) "At least the tax cut is smaller" - San Jose Mercury News (May 23, 2003) "All hat, no cattle" - Charlotte Observer (May 22, 2003) "Debt and Taxes" - Washington Post (May 22, 2003) "The Republicans Party On" - New York Times May 22, 2003 "No Fiscal Sense in Tax Plan" - Los Angeles Times May 22, 2003 "The strange math of tax cuts" - Chicago Tribune (May 22, 2003) "Bush tax cut is a sham" - The Herald (Rock Hill, SC) (May 22, 2003) "Tax-cut 'choice' / Take your pick: excessive or outrageous" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (May 20, 2003) "Competing tax-cut plans both fail the stimulus test" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (May 19, 2003) "Don't be fooled" - Orlando Sentinel (May 19, 2003) "Mortgaging America's Future" - Washington Post (May 18, 2003) "Sleight of Hand on Capitol Hill" - New York Times (May 18, 2003) "Tax cuts dressed up but it's still pork" - Seattle Post-Intelligencer (May 16, 2003) "Sunsets darken the horizon" - Milwaukee Journal (May 15, 2003) "Bush's reckless tax plan" - Boston Globe (May 15, 2003) "Bush economics / Selling the wrong product" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (May 15, 2003) "What Jobs? What Growth?" - Washington Post May 14, 2003 "Bush's short-term dollars make no long-term sense" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 14, 2003 "Bush tax cuts will bleed red" - Minot Daily News May 13, 2003 "Tax cut dance" - The Times Union (Albany, NY) May 13, 2003 "Making the Jobless Pay" - Los Angeles Times May 13, 2003 "Tax-cut folly" - News and Observer (Raleigh, NC) May 11, 2003 "Bush tax cuts grow deficit, not jobs" - Virginian-Pilot May 10, 2003 "The Tax-cut Fixation" - New York Times (May 9, 2003) "Good and bad tax cuts" - Boston Globe (May 8, 2003) "Tax Cut Trickery: Part II" - Washington Post (May 6, 2003) "Deaf and Blind to Deficits" - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (May 5, 2003) "The high cost of tax cuts" - Chicago Tribune (May 3, 2003) "Misguided Cuts in Washington" - New York Times (May 2, 2003) "Tax Cut Trickery" - Washington Post (May 2, 2003) "Who'll pay the cost of Bush's tax cut?" - Roanoke Times & World News (Apr. 30, 2003) "Tax cut not needed" - Charlotte Observer (Apr. 29, 2003) "Voinvoich should stand his ground" - Canton Repository (Apr. 29, 2003) "Tax cuts; Hollow arguments from Bush" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (Apr. 27, 2003) "Questionable cuts" - Buffalo News (Apr. 25, 2003) "The tax cut tour" - Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) (Apr. 24, 2003) "Bush tax cut wouldn't move Ohio ahead" - Dayton Daily News (Apr. 24, 2003) "Sold as economic cure, tax cuts hike deficit instead" - USA Today (Apr. 24, 2003) "Poor way to boost the economy" - The Record (Bergen County, NJ) (Apr. 23, 2003) "Another Senseless Tax-Cut Attempt" - New York Times (Apr. 23, 2003) "Avoid tax cut" - Orlando Sentinel (Apr. 22, 2003) "'Franco-Republicans' proud of Sen. Snowe" - Portland Press Herald (Apr. 21, 2003) "Tax Cuts That Work" - Bangor Daily News (Apr. 17, 2003) "The Home-Front War on Taxes" - New York Times (Apr. 16, 2003) "Right Direction on Taxes" - Los Angeles Times (Apr. 15, 2003) "Take the Money and Run" - Washington Post (Apr. 21, 2003) "Less is more / Follow the bouncing ball on the size of a tax cut" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Apr. 21, 2003) "Bush's Tax-Cut Windfall Is Too Good To Be True" - Newsday (Apr. 17, 2003) "War on taxes" - St. Louis Post Dispatch (Apr. 16, 2003) "Deeper into the red" - Sacramento Bee (Apr. 16, 2003) "Tax cut fantasy vs. deficit reality" - San Jose Mercury News (Apr. 16, 2003) "Tax cut adds to America's deficit" - The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, CA) (Apr. 16, 2003) "Senate's right to halve Bush's tax-cut package" - Bellingham (WA) Herald (Apr. 15, 2003) "Income tax cuts: Right idea, wrong time" - Ithaca (NY) Journal (Apr. 15, 2003) "Budget games" - The Times Union (Albany, NY) (Apr. 15, 2003) "Leaving to Fail Another Day" - New York Times (Apr. 12, 2003) "Farce, Tragedy and Taxes" - Washington Post (Apr. 14, 2003) "Backbone: AWOL" - Fort Worth Star-Telegram (Apr. 3, 2003) "The Budget Fight Is Now" - New York Times (Apr. 3, 2003) "Lay Off the Tax Candy" - Washington Post (Mar. 31, 2003) "How the Hell Are We Going to Pay For This?" - Newsday (Mar. 30, 2003) "Senate Must Stick To Guns" - Sun-Sentinel (Mar. 30, 2003) "Paying the price of war with Iraq" - Indianapolis Star (Mar. 30, 2003) "Paying for war" - Oregonian (Mar. 29, 2003) "Fiscal folly / This is no time for tax cuts" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (Mar. 29, 2003) "This is not the time for massive tax cut" - San Antonio Express-News (Mar. 28, 2003) "Facing fiscal facts" - Plain Dealer (Mar. 28, 2003) "War places new demands on federal budget" - Fort Collins Coloradoan (Mar. 28, 2003) "Dynamic Deficits" - Washington Post (Mar. 28, 2003) "A Bad Time for Tax Cuts" - Los Angeles Times (Mar. 28, 2003) "Setting the Budget" - Bangor Daily News (Mar. 28, 2003) "First step toward sanity" - Denver Post (Mar. 27, 2003) "Shock and Owe" - Bangor Daily News (Mar. 27, 2003) "Cap Bush's gusher of budgetary red ink" - Roanoke Times (Mar. 27, 2003) "Troops fight the war, their kids will pay for it" Virginian-Pilot (Mar. 27, 2003) "A wise vote to cut Bush's tax cut by half" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Mar. 27, 2003) "Unconscionable cuts" - St. Petersburg Times (Mar. 27, 2003) "Push for wartime tax cut selfish and shortsighted" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Mar. 26, 2003) "Note to Congress: Wartime isn't tax-cut time" - Austin American-Statesman (Mar. 26, 2003) "House should follow Senate's lead on tax cuts" - Dallas Morning News (Mar. 26, 2003) "The cost of war" - Cincinnati Post (Mar. 26, 2003) "Capping the Damage" - Washington Post (Mar. 26, 2003) "This is no time for a tax cut" - Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Mar. 26, 2003) "Guns and butter" - St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Mar. 26, 2003) "Fighting the War on Credit" - Syracuse Post-Standard (Mar. 26, 2003) "Three Republicans Set Senate on Saner Tax Course" - Newsday (Mar. 26, 2003) "Pushing irresponsible tax cuts is unpatriotic, given war's costs" - Philadelphia Inquirer (Mar. 26, 2003) "Senate hands Bush an intelligent setback" - San Jose Mercury News (Mar. 26, 2003) "Not The Time For Big Tax Cuts" - Sun-Sentinel (Mar. 23, 2003) "Paying for tax cuts" - Sacramento Bee (Mar. 23, 2003) "Next: a war budget" - Cincinnati Post (Mar. 21, 2003) "Budget blinders" - Boston Globe (Mar. 20, 2003) "Bear the Burden" - Salt Lake Tribune (Mar. 19, 2003) "Budget can't afford any of Bush's tax cut" - Peoria Journal (Mar. 19, 2003) "Fantasy Budget" - Washington Post (Mar. 19, 2003) "Resist Tax Cuts in Wartime" - Los Angeles Times (Mar. 19, 2003) "Tax-cut talk doesn't mix with war rhetoric" - Portland (Maine) Press Herald (Mar. 18, 2003) "How Tax Cuts Trickle Down" - New York Times (Mar. 16, 2003) "Spinach Now or Later" - Washington Post (Mar. 15, 2003) "Temper the tax cuts" - Cincinnati Post (Mar. 15, 2003) "Saving the president from himself on taxes" - Roanoke Times & World News (Mar. 13, 2003) "Back to tough budget decisions" - Deseret News (Mar. 13, 2003) "Half a Loaf Is Still Too Much" - Washington Post (Mar. 13, 2003) "Bush plan poses threat to Medicaid" - Philadelphia Inquirer (Mar. 10, 2003) "Debt in the trillions" - Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY) (Mar. 11, 2003) "Ten years of bad news" - Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (Mar. 11, 2003) "Tax cut 'fad' fighter?" - San Jose Mercury News (Mar. 7, 2003) "Digging the Deficit Hole" - Washington Post (Mar. 10, 2003) "It's not the right time for Bush's tax cuts" - Austin American-Statesman (Mar. 9, 2003) "And the deficit gets worse" - Orlando Sentinel (Mar. 9, 2003) "Facing up to our debts" - Cincinnati Post (Mar. 6, 2003) "'Friendly Fire' Hits Tax Plan" - Los Angeles Times (Mar. 6, 2003) "War Games" - Washington Post (Mar. 3, 2003) "The Bush Budget: War on the poor" - St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Mar. 2, 2003) "The cost of war" - Cincinnati Post (Mar. 1, 2003) "Collateral Damage" - Salt Lake Tribune (Feb. 28, 2003) "Law of averages" - Washington Post (Feb. 21, 2003) "The sound of deficit hawks" - Milwaukee Journal (Feb. 21, 2003) "Greenspan's go-slow warnings are worth heeding" - Buffalo News (Feb. 20, 2003) "Bush's budget relies too much on red ink" - Fort Collins Coloradoan (Feb. 20, 2003) "Spinning economic myth to make political gold" - Roanoke Times and World News (Feb. 17, 2003) "An 'F' on taxes; Top economists pan Bush's plan" - Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Feb. 16, 2003) "A reckless budget" - Sacramento Bee (Feb. 15, 2003) "Tax-whacking folly" - Charlotte Observer (Feb. 14, 2003) "Greenspan's math isn't fuzzy" - Morning Star (Wilmington, NC) (Feb. 14, 2003) "Listen to Greenspan" - Orlando Sentinel (Feb. 12, 2003) "Bush budget plans at odds with times" - Virginian-Pilot (Feb. 11, 2003) "Robbing Grandma to pay Joe Fatcat" - Roanoke Times & World News (Feb. 10, 2003) "Red ink rising" - Cincinnati Post (Feb. 10, 2003) "Don't Mortgage Future" - Dallas Morning News (Feb. 9, 2003) "Passing down debt a disservice to young" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Feb. 9, 2003) "Mind-boggling budget" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Feb. 9, 2003) "Economic problems must be tackled now" - Austin American Statesman (Feb. 8, 2003) "Irresponsible doesn't begin to describe flaws in Bush's budget" - Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times (Feb. 7, 2003) "Saving the wealthy" - Baltimore Sun (Feb. 7, 2003) "Deficits / Colossal Bush debt" - Charleston (WV) Gazette (Feb. 7, 2003) "This is no time for a tax cut" - Deseret News (Salt Lake City, UT) (Feb. 7, 2003) "An excess of boldness" - Cincinnati Post (Feb. 7, 2003) "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Bush" - Washington Post (Feb. 6, 2003) "Budget excess" - St. Petersburg Times (Feb. 6, 2003) "A big deficit, with bigger on way" - Rocky Mountain News (Feb. 4, 2003) "War on Progressive Taxes" - Los Angeles Times (Feb. 5, 2003) "The Bush budget's disconnect" - Chicago Tribune (Feb. 5, 2003) "Budget's Missing Gorilla" - Christian Science Monitor (Feb. 5, 2003) "A Reckless Plan" - Newsday (Feb. 5, 2003) "Congress should step up with better budget plan" - Kansas City Star (Feb. 5, 2003) "Bush budget / More reckless tax cuts" - Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Feb. 4, 2003) "Budget Ideology" - Boston Globe (Feb. 4, 2003) "Red Ink Alert" - Detroit Free Press (Feb. 1, 2003) "The Imbalanced Budget" - New York Times (Feb. 4, 2003) "Stealth Tax Reform" - Washington Post (Feb. 4, 2003) "Deficits Definitely Matter" - USA Today (Feb. 4, 2003) "Why deficits matter" - Chicago Tribune (Feb. 3, 2003) "Bad Housekeeping" - Washington Post (Feb. 3, 2003) "Fiscal stimulus / Senate must craft an alternative" - Minneapolis Star-Tribune (Jan. 26, 2003) "Projected deficits not modest or manageable" - Peoria Journal Star (Jan. 23, 2003) "Deficits without end" - Boston Globe (Jan. 19, 2003) "With surplus gone, so are funds to fix Social Security" - USA Today (Jan. 20, 2003) "Rising tide of red ink" - Cincinnati Post (Jan. 18, 2003) "Bush is Squandering Nation's Fiscal Well-Being" - Newsday (Jan. 19, 2003) "Inspect Bush's tax package" - Sarasota (FL) Herald-Tribune (Jan. 19, 2002) "Examine details of tax proposal" - Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Jan. 17, 2003) "Containment Policy" - Washington Post (Jan. 17, 2003) "A Pain-Filled Tax Cut Plan" - Los Angeles Times (Jan. 17, 2003) "Gift to the rich" - The Record (Hackensack, NJ) (Jan. 16, 2003) "Tax breaks for the wealthy" - The Herald (Rock Hill, SC) (Jan. 12, 2003) "Ill-timed cuts" - News & Observer (Raleigh, NC) (Jan. 12, 2003) "Bush economic plan ignores job creation" - News & Record (Greensboro, NC) (Jan. 12, 2003) "More harm than good" - Cincinnati Post (Jan. 9, 2003) "Wanted: A Fiscally Moderate Economic Approach" - Miami Herald (Jan. 9, 2003) "Red-ink express" - Philadelphia Inquirer (Jan. 9, 2003) "Piece of Plan Don't Add Up" - Sun-Sentinel (Jan. 10, 2003) "Pres. Bush's econ. plan: Nothing on the table for hungry states" - Morning Call (Allentown, PA) (Jan. 9, 2003) "...and more red ink" - Times-Union (Albany, NY) (Jan. 9, 2003) "Bush Plan Misreads Economic Realities" - Virginian-Pilot (Jan. 9, 2003) "Unfair tax proposal rewards wrong group" - Kansas City Star (Jan. 9, 2003) "Bush's tax cut would help the rich, not the economy" - San Jose Mercury News (Jan. 8, 2003) "The tax divide" - St. Petersburg Times (Jan. 9, 2003) "Bush tax cut could have high price" - Commercial Appeal (Jan. 8, 2003) "Bush economic plan fails basic tests" - Peoria Journal Star (Jan. 8, 2003) "Now's not the time to cut taxes" - Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (Jan. 8, 2003) "Tax Abolitionists" - Washington Post (Jan. 8, 2003) "The Wrong Stimulant" - New York Times (Jan. 8, 2003) "Bush Tax Plan Wakes Critics" - Los Angeles Times (Jan. 8, 2003) "Abolishing dividend taxes puts no stock in workers" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Jan. 8, 2003) "Economic Deja Vu" - Newsday (Jan. 8, 2003) "The Charles Schwab Tax Cut" - New York Times (Jan. 7, 2003) "Stimulating the rich" - Baltimore Sun (Jan. 7, 2003) "The Tax Cut Trap" - Washington Post (Jan. 6, 2003) "A Steep Price for Tax Cuts" - Los Angeles Times (Jan. 5, 2003) "Federal Salve for State Pain" - Los Angeles Times (Jan. 3, 2003) "Changes needed" - Orlando Sentinel (Dec. 16, 2002) "Snow job / Deficits should matter" - Charleston Gazette (Dec. 13, 2002) "New math conceals cost of tax cuts" - The Virginian-Pilot (Dec. 3, 2002) "Greenspan the enabler" - Boston Globe (Nov. 19, 2002) "Needed: a Skunk" - Washington Post (Nov. 20, 2002) "Tax Relief / Congress needs a fair alternative" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (Nov. 17, 2002) "Now Managing the Economy Is Up to Bush and Congress" - Newsday (Nov. 17, 2002) "Self-discipline / Budget rules that worked in Washington" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (Oct. 6, 2002) "A $284 billion swing" - Buffalo News (Sept. 18, 2002) "Budget won't balance unless priorities are set" - Portland (Maine) Press Herald (September 17, 2002) "Wait-listed / Congress needs to fund child care" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (September 15, 2002) "Deficits signal need to abandon tax cuts" - Kansas City Star (September 3, 2002) "Goodbye, surplus" - Philadelphia Inquirer (September 1, 2002) "The end of the rainbow" - Columbus Dispatch (September 1, 2002) "Tax Cuts, Again" - New York Times (August 31, 2002) "Debt Federal fiasco" - Charleston Gazette (August 30, 2002) "Seeing red" - Louisville Courier-Journal (August 29, 2002) "Red Ink / Deficits are bad news for Bush" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (August 29, 2002) "Red Ink Reality" - Newsday (August 29, 2002) "Tax-Cut Hemorrhage" - Los Angeles Times (August 29, 2002) "Shortchanging children" - Buffalo News (August 28, 2002) "The president's usual answer" - Buffalo News (August 22, 2002) "When In Doubt, Cut taxes" - Washington Post (August 20, 2002) "Debt: Plunging in the hole" - Charleston Gazette (August 7, 2002) "Estate tax sham" - The (Albany, NY) Times Union (August 4, 2002) "Crunching numbers / White House forecast is implausible" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (August 2, 2002) "Of Bulls, Bears and Deficits" - Sun-Sentinel (July 22, 2002) "It's the economy - again" Des Moines Register (June 27, 2002) "Unfair tax break" - Boston Globe (June 14, 2002) "Death and taxes / The Senate brakes an irresponsible tax cut" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (June 14, 2002) "Death and taxes" - Baltimore Sun (June 13, 2002) "Loophole for the rich" - San Jose Mercury News (June 11, 2002) "Death Tax Politics" - Washington Post (June 8, 2002) "Higher-priced education" - Boston Globe (May 14, 2002) "Where's our $4 trillion?" - Baltimore Sun (April 30, 2002) "Don't Bank on It" - Newsday (April 23, 2002) "The Washington Budget Box" - New York Times (April 22, 2002) "Sure-Fire Recovery Stopper" - Los Angeles Times (April 18, 2002) "Wallowing in Deficit" - Los Angeles Times (April 16, 2002) "Bush budget shortchanges CDC" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (February 20, 2002) "Deja Voodoo" - St. Louis Post-Dispatch (February 14, 2002) "Leadership Lacking in Bush's Budget" - Kansas City Star (February 7, 2002) "Budget in conflict" - Akron Beacon Journal (February 6, 2002) "Beefed-up defense funding should end talk of tax cut" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (February 6, 2002) "The president's budget" - Buffalo News (February 6, 2002) "Budget ups and downs" - Providence Journal-Bulletin February 6, 2002 "Another bad budget from Bush" - Roanoke Times & World News (February 6, 2002) "Federal Budget: Bush budget reverts to old fiscal politics" - Saint Paul Pioneer Press (February 6, 2002) "Bush budget plan deserves challenge" - San Antonio Express-News (February 6, 2002) "Bush's budget / keep your eye on Social Security" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (February 6, 2002) "New federal budget marks return of the deficits" - Virginian-Pilot (February 6, 2002) "Bush's Magic Budget" - Los Angeles Times (February 6, 2002) "Budget takes ugly turn: Deficits for years to come" - USA Today (February 4, 2002) "A Trillion Here, a Trillion There" - Washington Post (January 24, 2002) "W's Line in the Sand Over Taxes" - San Francisco Chronicle (January 9, 2002) "Economic help should be aimed at those in need" - Kansas City Star (December 21, 2001) "The Stimulus Pawn" - Washington Post (December 18, 2001) "Joy of Giving, D.C. - Style" - Los Angeles Times (December 18, 2001) "Stimulus for Whom?" - Washington Post (December 11, 2001) "A Risky Delay" - St. Louis Post-Dispatch (December 9, 2001) "A Stimulus Not Worth Passing" - New York Times (December 9, 2001) "Back to Deficits" - Washington Post (December 3, 2001) "Boost the economy, not the federal debt" - Baltimore Sun (December 3, 2001) "Farewell to Federal Budget Surpluses" - Newsday (December 2, 2001) "A Decent Stimulus Bill, or None" - Washington Post (November 9, 2001) "Fiscal Stimulus: GOP packages get it backward" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (November 8, 2001) "Cut the Ideology" - Newsday (November 9, 2001) "We Can't Cut and Spend" - Los Angeles Times (November 8, 2001) "Senate must fix House's farce of a stimulus bill" - Albuquerque Tribune (November 3, 2001) "Spur investment, spending in economic recovery plan" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (November 6, 2001) "Bipartisan Stimulus" - The Boston Globe (November 5, 2001) "Better No Stimulus At All" - Washington Post (November 1, 2001) "War Profiteering" - Newsday (October 31, 2001) "The Senate's Quaking Moderates" - New York Times (October 30, 2001) "Off Target: A Poor Stimulus Plan From the House" - Minneapolis Star Tribune (October 27, 2001) "The Incredible Shrinking Surplus" - New York Times (August 24, 2001) "It's Candid Budget Time" - Christian Science Monitor (August 14, 2001) "The end of surpluses" - Boston Globe (August 13, 2001) "Dwindling Surplus Has GOP Scurrying" - Los Angeles Times (August 1, 2001) "Deficit: Yes, It Rings a Bell" - Los Angeles Times (August 1, 2001) "Bare Cupboard" - Washington Post (July 24, 2001) "The Squeeze Begins" - Washington Post (July 10, 2001) "Mr. Bush's Fiscal Gaffe" - New York Times July 7, 2001 "And Now to Spend" - Washington Post (June 25, 2001) "A New Tax-Cut Rampage" - New York Times (June 22, 2001) "Tax Fraud" - Washington Post (May 26, 2001) "Tax cut is gift that keeps giving -- for those upscale" - USA Today (May 22, 2001) "God and the tax cut" - Boston Globe (May 22, 2001) "Wanted: A Few Good Skunks" - The Washington Post (May 21, 2001) "The $4 Trillion Tax Cut" - New York Times (May 20, 2001) "Some Crumbs For The Poor" - Los Angeles Times (May 19, 2001) "Tax-Slashers At Work" - Philadelphia Inquirer (May 16, 2001) "Tax Mice" - Washington Post (May 15, 2001) "More Tax-Cut Follies" - New York Times (May 12, 2001) "An Irresponsible Budget Plan" - New York Times (May 10, 2001) "An Unreal Budget" - Washington Post (May 7, 2001) "Budget Farce in Washington" - New York Times (May 4, 2001) "A Squeeze on the Poor" - Washington Post (April 17, 2001) "A Setback on Tax Cuts?" - Washington Post (April 15, 2001) "Not a Serious Budget" - Washington Post (April 10, 2001) "Mr. Bush's Distorted Budget" - New York Times (April 10, 2001) "Painful Budget Cuts" - Boston Globe (April 10, 2001) "Bush budget plan ranges from reasonable to wrong" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (April 10, 2001) "Bush Budget: President calls it attack on pork, but on many issues cuts close to bone" - Philadelphia Inquirer (April 10, 2001) "Faking the cost of tax cuts" - Washington Post (April 4, 2001) "Congress must help Bush choose a wise course" - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (March 28, 2001) "The President on the Economy" - New York Times (March 28, 2001) "A Lollipop Budget" - The Washington Post (March 25, 2001) "A Faster, Fairer, Smaller Tax Cut" - New York Times (March 18, 2001) "What Bush Isn't Saying" - Los Angeles Times (March 14, 2001) "A Raid on Medicare" - Washington Post (March 14, 2001) "Voting First, Debating Later" - New York Times (March 11, 2001) "Stage Show in House" - Washington Post (March 8, 2001) "Economy pinches states, sending tax-cut warning" - USA Today (March 8, 2001) "Spinach Before Dessert" - The Washington Post (March 5, 2001) "The Return of Fuzzy Math" - The New York Times (March 1, 2001) "Optimistic Bush Budget Needs Dash of Realism" - Baltimore Sun (March 1, 2001) "Bush's debut" - Charlotte Observer (March 1, 2001) "Bush's Fiscal Buffet" - Denver Post (March 1, 2001) "Mr. Bush's Budget Strategy" - The New York Times (February 28, 2001) "Mr. Bush's Agenda" - Washington Post (February 28, 2001) "Bush's Budget Not Sold Yet" - Los Angeles Times (February 28, 2001) Mr. Bush's First Battle - New York Times (February 25, 2001) "Tax-Cut News for Mr. Bush" - New York Times (February 20, 2001) "Even billionaires aren't buying estate-tax hype" - USA Today (February 20, 2001) "A bad tax break" - Boston Globe (February 16, 2001) "Even the Fat Cats Don't Buy It" - Los Angeles Times (February 16, 2001) "Defending the Estate Tax" - New York Times (February 16, 2001) "Unreal Cuts" - Washington Post (February 16, 2001) "Surplus Dividend Better Than Windfall For Wealthy" - Atlanta Journal Constitution (Feb, 16, 2001) "Wealthy Against Tax Cut" - St. Petersburg Times (Feb. 16, 2001) "First, Pay Down Debt" - Orlando Sentinel (February 11, 2001) "The Real Tax Plan" - Washington Post (February 11, 2001) "A Medicare Shell Game" - Washington Post (February 11, 2001) "Are Democrats Ready on Taxes?" - New York Times (February 8, 2001) Commentaries Archive David S. Broder: "Fiscal Doomsday in the Offing" - Washington Post (Oct. 5, 2003) Jay Bookman: "Cost of war our burden, not our kids'" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Sept. 15, 2003) Steven Mufson: "Show U.S. The Money" - Washington Post (Sept. 14, 2003) Paul Krugman: "The Tax-Cut Con" - New York Times Magazine (Sept. 14, 2003) Matt Miller: "Bush's Radical Fiscal Immorality" - Tribune Media (Sept. 10, 2003) Mortimer B. Zuckerman: "The funny thing about holes" - US News & World Report (Sept. 15, 2003) E.J. Dionne Jr.: "Whose Sacrifice?" - Washington Post (Sept. 9, 2003) Alan Sloan: "After Adjustment for Political Reality, Deficit Projections Get Scary" - Wash. Post (Sept. 2, 2003) Bob Herbert: "No Work, No Homes" - New York Times (August 14, 2003) Laura D'Andrea Tyson: "The Bush Tax Cuts Sapping America's Strength" - BusinessWeek (Aug. 11, 2003) Miles Benson: "Paying for those rising federal deficits" - San Diego Union-Tribune (August 11, 2003) E.J. Dionne, Jr.: "Moving Right Along" - Washington Post (July 18, 2003) Paul Krugman: "Passing It Along" - New York Times (July 18, 2003) David Lazarus: "Big deficit will hurt boomers" - San Francisco Chronicle (July 16, 2003) Bob Herbert: "Tax Cut Casualties" - New York Times (June 26, 2003) Senator Ernest F. Hollings: "Delusional on the Deficit" - Washington Post (June 19, 2003) Thomas L. Friedman: "Read My Lips" - New York Times (June 11, 2003) Steve Lopez: "Window Shopping With the Tax Refund in Bush's Hall of Mirrors" - LA Times (June 6, 2003) David Sarasohn: "At the end, the tax cut also cut the kids" - The Oregonian (June 4, 2003) Derrick Z. Jackson: "A tax cut for the selfish" - Boston Globe (June 4, 2003) Robert Kuttner: "Bush's reckless economics" - Boston Globe (June 4, 2003) Clarence Page: "Putting a face on the nation's low-wage earners" - Chicago Tribune (June 4, 2003) Jeffrey H. Birnbaum: "A Man With A Plan" - Fortune (May 27, 2003) Jules Witcover: "Starving the social agenda" - Baltimore Sun (June 3, 2003) Ron Brownstein: "Regardless of Bush's Rationale, Tax Cut Could Invite a Fiscal Meltdown" - Los Angeles Times (June 2, 2003) Bob Herbert: "The Reverse Robin Hood" - New York Times (June 2, 2003) Thomas Oliphant: "Working poor shafted in a tax cut footnote" - Boston Globe (June 1, 2003) Anna Bernasek: "If You Like Tax Gimmicks, This Deal's For You" - Washington Post (June 1, 2003) Bob Herbert: "Caught in the Squeeze" - New York Times (May 29, 2003) David S. Broder: "The Tax-Cut Skeptics Back Home" - Washington Post (May 28, 2003) David Sarasohn: "Numerically, just don't try this at home" - Oregonian (May 28, 2003) Elmer Smith: "Killing government a tax cut at a time" - Philadelphia Daily News (May 28, 2003) Paul Krugman: "Stating the Obvious" - New York Times (May 27, 2003) Marie Cocco: "We're Sailing Right Into a Fiscal Hurricaine" - Newsday (May 27, 2003) Gene Sperling: "Fiscal Death by 1,000 Tax Cuts" - Los Angeles Times (May 23, 2003) James K. Galbraith: "Bush Tax Cuts Will Do a Number on Us" - Newsday (May 23, 2003) Franco Modigliani and Robert Solow: "Dangers of the dividend tax cut" - Boston Globe (May 22, 2003) Paul Krugman: "Into the Sunset" - New York Times (May 9, 2003) William Gale & Peter Orszag: "Bush's Tax-Cut Plan Slashes Growth" - Newsday (May 9, 2003) William Raspberry: "...That's Blatant FlimFlam" - Washington Post (May 5, 2003) Daryl Lease: "Growing deficits -- bank on it" - Sarasota Herald-Tribune (May 5, 2003) Michael Kinsley: "Deficit Denial" - Washington Post (May 2, 2003) Robert Kuttner: "Bush's role in state fiscal crises" - Boston Globe (Apr. 30, 2003) Myriam Marquez: "Moral authority AWOL on tax cuts" - Orlando Sentinel (Apr. 29, 2003) Allan Sloan: "For Bush, Cutting Taxes Is the Plan for All Seasons" - Washington Post (Apr. 29, 2003) Andrew Cassel: "Pathetic savings rate hurts case for tax cut" - Philadelphia Inquirer (Apr. 28, 2003) Steven Pearlstein: "Bush Tax Plan Is More Political Than Economic" - Washington Post (Apr. 23, 2003) Paul Krugman: "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs" - New York Times (Apr. 22, 2003) Thomas Oliphant: "The real deal on Bush's tax cut plan" - Boston Globe (Apr. 20, 2003) Dan Radmacher: "Bush plan will stimulate deficit" - Charleston Gazette (Apr. 18, 2003) Marie Cocco: "Bush's Tax Cuts Give the Economy No Boost" - Newsday (Apr. 8, 2003) Kerrey, Nunn, Peterson, Rubin, Rudman, & Volcker: "No New Tax Cuts" - New York Times (Apr. 9, 2003) E.J. Dionne Jr.: "Humpty on the House Floor" - Washington Post (Apr. 4, 2003) Bob Herbert: "Mugging the Needy" - New York Times (Apr. 3, 2003) Jonathan Chait: "Can War Sell the Tax Cut?" - New Republic (Apr. 7, 2003) Tom Bigler: "War spending should trigger rethinking of tax cuts" - Wilkes Barre Times Leader (Mar. 30, 2003) David S. Border: "A Budget of Dire Consequences" - Washington Post (Mar. 31, 2003) Molly Ivins: "Bush's sneak attck on 'average' taxpayers" - Chicago Tribune (Mar. 27, 2003) David S. Broder: "The Squeeze On Our Children" - Washington Post March 23, 2003 Michael Kinsman: "Jobless deserve better than seriously flawed 'gift'" - San Diego Union-Tribune (Mar. 16, 2003) Peter Z. Grossman: "Bush's deficit spending bound to backfire" - Indianapolis Star (Mar. 11, 2003) Paul Krugman: "A Fiscal Train Wreck" - New York Times (Mar. 11, 2003) Steve Chapman: "Washington gains weight on a starvation diet" - Chicago Tribune (Mar. 9, 2003) Robert Kuttner: "Compassionate Conservative's Bait-and-Switch Budget" - Business Week (Mar. 10, 2003) Alan B. Krueger: "Big Federal Deficits, Bigger Risks" - New York Times (Mar. 6, 2003) David S. Broder: "The CEOs' Dim View of Deficits" - Washington Post (Mar. 5, 2003) Tom Bigler: "Bush budget is scary for schools, skies, states" - Wilkes Barre Times Leader (Mar. 2, 2003) Michael Kinsley: "Losing on the Bush Diet" - Washington Post (Feb. 21, 2003) Allan M. Winkler: "Deficit is getting out of hand" - Cincinnati Post (Feb. 21, 2003) Bob Herbert: "A Strange Budget Cut" - New York Times (Feb. 20, 2003) Allan Sloan: "Finding the Wart's in Bush's Tax Plan" - Washington Post (Feb. 11, 2003) Marie Cocco: "Bush Seeks to Cut Boomers' Pension Rights" - Newsday (Feb. 11, 2003) James O. Goldsborough: "This is worse than voodoo economics" - San Diego Union-Tribune (Feb. 10, 2003) Robert Landauer: "Movie more honest than politicians" - The Oregonian (Feb. 8, 2003) Ronald Brownstein: "Our Children Will Pay the Bill for Bush's Budget" - Los Angeles Times (Feb. 10, 2003) David S. Broder: "Bush's Credibility Gap on the Economy" - Washington Post (Feb. 9, 2003) John Balzar: "Tax Myopia: a Tale of Two Returns" - Los Angeles Times (Feb. 9, 2003) Jack Z. Smith: "Leaving a mess for the future" - Fort Worth Star Telegram (Feb. 7, 2003) Thomas Oliphant: "Bush fudging the ruinous costs of war" - Boston Globe (Feb. 4, 2003) Allan Sloan: "Bush's Words vs. Bush's Numbers" - Washington Post (Feb. 3, 2003) Robert Landauer: "Underbelly of tax plans isn't alluring" - The Oregonian (Jan. 25, 2003) Hal Rhodes: "Bush's plan will actually stimulate just more deficits" - Albuquerque Tribune (Jan. 22, 2003) Carl Leubsdorf: "Economic problems roll down" - Dallas Morning News (Jan. 23, 2003) Theodore Fuller: "Burdening our children with debt" - Roanoke Times (Jan. 23, 2003) Jay Bookman: "We can thank our children for tax cut" - Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Jan. 23, 2003) Jeff Madrick: "Where's the Bang for the Buck?" - New York Times (Jan. 23, 2003) Douglas Turner: "Bush introduces new era of financial recklessness" - Buffalo News (Jan. 20, 2003) Scott Lehigh "Bush overplays his hand on taxes" - Boston Globe (Jan. 22, 2003) Paul Krugman: "A Touch of Class" - New York Times (Jan. 21, 2003) Tom Bigler: "Bush's economic policy a threat to worry about" - The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA) (Jan. 19, 2003) Mortimer B. Zuckerman "Bush's plan falls short" - US News & World Report (Jan. 20, 2003) Paul Krugman "Off the Wagon" - New York Times (Jan. 17, 2003) E.J. Dionne Jr. "Who Will Pay?" - Washington Post (Jan. 17, 2003) Michael Kinsley "Dubya's Dividend Delight" - Washington Post (Jan. 17, 2003) Carl Jeffers "A not-so-stimulating plan to realign the tax burden" - Seattle Times (Jan. 16, 2003) Stephen Winn "New tax cuts fly in the face of economic reason" - Kansas City Star (Jan. 15, 2003) Marie Cocco "Dividend Tax-Cut Claims: False Advertising" - Newsday (Jan. 14, 2003) Paul Krugman: "Stimulus for Lawyers" - New York Times (Jan. 14, 2003) Allan Sloan: "Too Many Leaps of Faith In Bush Tax-Cut Plan" - Washington Post (Jan. 14, 2003) William Raspberry: "Struggling to 'Get It'" - Washington Post (Jan. 13, 2003) Reuven S. Avi-Yonah & David S. Miller: "A Tax Plan That Will Pay Few Dividends" - Washington Post (Jan. 12, 2003) David S. Broder: "It Reeks of Politics" - Washington Post (Jan. 12, 2003) Ronald Brownstein: "Bush Breaks With 140 Years of History in Plan for Wartime Tax Cut" - Los Angeles Times (Jan. 13, 2003) Kevin Phillips: "A Tax Cut Plan Rooted in the Bush Pedigree" - Los Angeles Times (Jan. 12, 2003) Thomas Oliphant "Cooking the books to sell a tax plan..." - Boston Globe (Jan. 12, 2003) Clarence Page: "Bush reaches out to the 'needy'" - Chicago Tribune (Jan. 12, 2003) Douglas Pike: "Bush plan is one long happy hour for the rich" - Philadelphia Inquirer (Jan. 12, 2003) Molly Ivins: "Dumb to cut taxes for the wealthy" - Chicago Tribune (Jan. 9, 2003) Richard Cohen: "Dead on the Money" - Washington Post (Jan. 9, 2003) Bob Herbert: "Jobless, and Stunned" - New York Times (Jan. 9, 2003) Robert Kuttner: "Bush's titanic tax deceptions" - Boston Globe (Jan. 8, 2003) John J. Sweeney: "Economic Recovery for All" - Washington Post (Jan. 7, 2003) E.J. Dionne Jr.: "Who's Playing 'Class Warfare'?" - Washington Post (Jan. 7, 2003) E.J. Dionne Jr.:"It's Time To Do The Math" - The Washington Post (Dec. 31, 2002) Michael Kinsley: "Republicans Go Positive on the Deficit" - Washington Post (Dec. 23, 2002) Jerry Heaster: "Silence could hurt Medicare" - Kansas City Star (Dec. 22, 2002) Laura D'Andrea Tyson:"Good News for Joe Trustfund, Bad News for Joe Sixpack" - BusinessWeek (Dec. 2, 2002) Robyn E. Blumner:"Republican Party is very accommodating to rich tax avoiders" - St. Petersburg Times (Dec. 1, 2002) Lawrence J. Korb: "Pay our debt to disabled vets" - Baltimore Sun (Nov. 19, 2002) Leonard Burman and William G. Gale: "Fix a Real Tax Mess" - Newsday (Nov. 14, 2002) Max Sawicky: "More (tax) reductions won't work, just as recent cuts didn't spur spending" - Detroit News (Nov. 17, 2002) Marie Cocco: "Bush Tax Cuts Spell Trouble Over Long Run" - Newsday (Nov. 7, 2002) Janet Yellen: "Government needs a return to fiscal discipline" - Albany Times Union (Oct. 27, 2002) Douglas Pike: "Bush's plan for more tax cuts adds up to comedy of errors" - Phila. Inquirer (Sept. 20, 2002) Gene Sperling: "Bush Must Be Winking When Talking Of Deficits" - Bloomberg (Sept. 3, 2002) Laura D'Andrea Tyson: "White House No Place for Voodoo Accounting" - BusinessWeek (Sept. 23, 2002) Howard Gleckman: "Goodbye, Surplus. Hello, Train Wreck" - BusinessWeek (Sept. 3, 2002) Ron Brownstein: "Cutting Taxes During Wartime Defies American Tradition" - LA Times (Sept. 2, 2002) Robert Landauer: "New tax ideas only extend states' pains" - Oregonian (Sept. 1, 2002) Paul Krugman: "Just Trust Us" - New York Times (Aug. 30, 2002) Paul Krugman: "The Real Thing" - New York Times (Aug. 20, 2002) Paul Krugman: "The Memory Hole" - New York Times (Aug. 6, 2002) David S. Broder: "Leaving the States in the Lurch" - Washington Post (July 31, 2002) Paul Krugman: "Our Banana Republics" - New York Times (July 30, 2002) Paul Krugman: "Living With Bears" - New York Times (July 23, 2002) Janet Yellen: "The Binge Mentality in the Federal Budget" - New York Times (July 22, 2002) Waldo Proffitt: "Wealthy heirs don't need relief" - Sarasota Herald-Tribune (July 21, 2002) Robert Kuttner: "Permanent Tax Cuts Are the Last Thing We Need" - Business Week (June 24, 2002) David S. Broder: "Opening A Trillion-Dollar Hole" - Washington Post (June 16, 2002) Thomas Oliphant: "A losing 'war' on the estate tax" - Boston Globe (June 16, 2002) Ellen Goodman: "Death tax wannabes" - Boston Globe (June 16, 2002) Marianne Means "Flirting with economic disaster" - Seattle Post-Intelligencer (June 16, 2002) E.J. Dionne Jr.: "The Inherited Wealth Lobby" - The Washington Post (June 14, 2002) Steve Chapman: "Under Bush, big government will get whole lot bigger" - Chicago Tribune (June 13, 2002) James O. Goldsborough: "Permanent estate-tax repeal bad fiscal policy" - San Diego Union-Tribune (June 13, 2002) Douglas Pike: "Going into the red again" - Philadelphia Inquirer (June 4, 2002) Thomas Oliphant: "A Bush assault on college funds" - Boston Globe (May 5, 2002) Paul Krugman: "Window of Arrogance" - New York Times (May 3, 2002) Walter Shapiro: "Dems should fight for right to keep undies private" - USA Today (May 3, 2002) E.J. Dionne Jr. "Why the Lockbox Won't Die" - The Washington Post (April 30, 2002) Paul Krugman: "Wealth Versus Health" - New York Times (April 19, 2002) Marianne Means: "Empty promises, symbols insulting" - Seattle Post-Intelligencer (February 28, 2002) Murray B. Light: "Bush's budget opens door to more deficits" - The Buffalo News (February 17, 2002) Laura D'Andrea Tyson: "This Year's Budget Battle Could Be Bloody" - BusinessWeek (February 18, 2002) Thomas Oliphant: "Bush budget's fuzzy math" - Boston Globe (February 12, 2002) David S. Broder: "Back to Deficit Spending" - Washington Post (February 10, 2002) Leon Panetta: "Can Congress Discipline Itself?" - New York Times (February 8, 2002) E.J. Dionne, Jr.: "Now, How Do We Pay for It?" - Washington Post (February 1, 2002) Alan Sloan: "Enron Math Has Something in Common With Budget Proj." - Wash. Post (Jan. 29, 2002) Andrew Cassel: "Unflappable, but not infallible, Greenspan goofed" - Philadelphia Inquirer (January 28, 2002) Robert Scheer: "Let Down His Rich Pals? Over His Dead Body" - Los Angeles Times (January 8, 2002) E.J. Dionne Jr.: "...An Honest Accounting" - The Washington Post (January 8, 2002) Paul Krugman: "Hitting the Trifecta" - New York Times (December 7, 2001) E.J. Dionne Jr.: "Stymied Stimulus" - Washington Post (November 27, 2001) Dan Haar: "Business Tax Breaks Will Fight Wrong War" - Hartford Courant (November 9, 2001) David Lazarus: "Big tax cuts in stimulus bill are ill-advised" - San Francisco Chronicle (November 4, 2001) Robert Reno: "It's Time to Act On the Economy" - Newsday (November 4, 2001) Greg Goldin: "Another Free Lunch for Fat Cats" - Los Angeles Times (November 4, 2001) Bob Herbert: "Shame in the House" - New York Times (October 29, 2001) Dan Gillmor: "Just What We Need: More Handouts for the Rich" - San Jose Mercury News (October 28, 2001) Paul Krugman: "Pants on Fire" - New York Times (August 24, 2001) Ron Brownstein: "Despite Surpluses, Congress Still Dodging a Deficit" - Los Angeles Times (July 9, 2001) Paul Krugman: Red Tide Rising - New York Times (July 6, 2001) Paul Krugman: "Bad Heir Day" - New York Times (May 30, 2001) Paul Krugman: "The Big Lie" - New York Times (May 27, 2001) Paul Krugman: "The Universal Elixir" - New York Times (May 15, 2001) E.J. Dionne, Jr.: "Mr. Fix It: Got A Problem? Solve It With A Tax Cut" - Washington Post (May 15, 2001) Marian Wright Edelman: "Spending Priorities" - San Francisco Chronicle (May 13, 2001) Paul Krugman: "More Missing Pages" - New York Times (May 6, 2001) David S. Broder: "Bush's Budget: Reason for Scrutiny" - Washington Post (April 15, 2001) Thomas Oliphant: "Suddenly, Bush is bully on the economy" - Boston Globe (April 10, 2001) Former Senators Rudman and Nunn, et al: "On Taxes, One Step at a Time" - Wash. Post (April 4, 2001) Paul Krugman: "The Class Warrior" - New York Times (April 4, 2001) Paul Krugman: "The Hostage Economy" - New York Times (March 28, 2001) Bob Herbert: "The Mask Comes Off" - New York Times (March 26, 2001) Gene Sperling: "The Reforms a Tax Cut Ruins" - New York Times (March 21, 2001) Paul Krugman: "The Money Pit" - New York Times (March 18, 2001) Anthony Lewis: "The Golden Eggs" - New York Times (March 10, 2001) Stephen Winn: "Fuzzy math in Bush plan" - Kansas City Star (March 10, 2001) E.J. Dionne, Jr: "Tax Cutting: Listen and Learn" - Washington Post (March 9, 2001) Gail Collins: "A Taxing Debate" - The New York Times (March 9, 2001) William Raspberry: "True Believer" - Washington Post (March 2, 2001) David S. Broder: "A Shaky Budget" - Washington Post (March 2, 2001) Jack Lew: "The Budget That Doesn't Add Up" - The New York Times (March 1, 2001) E.J. Dionne, Jr.: "Cooling on Bush's Tax Cut" - Washington Post (February 20, 2001) William H. Gates, Sr.: "The Estate Tax: What's at Stake" - Washington Post (February 16, 2001) Peter Donhowe, "So, What's Wrong With A Big Tax Cut?" - St. Louis Post-Dispatch (February 15, 2001) Peter Schrag, "Bush's Tax-cut Plan Just Does Not Add Up" - Sacramento Bee (February 14, 2001) Mark Weisbrot, "Should Congress Pass Bush's Tax-Cut Proposals?" - Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) (February 12, 2001) Allan Sloan: "Tax-Cut Plan Could Turn Middle Class Into Tool for Restoring Loophole of the Rich" - Washington Post (February 13, 2001) Robert Rubin: "A Prosperity Easy to Destroy" - New York Times (February 11, 2001) Paul Krugman: "Slicing the Salami" - New York Times (February 11, 2001) Paul Krugman: "Guns and Bitterness" - New York Times (February 11, 2001) Albert Hunt column, "A Tax Cut That Redistributes to the Rich" - Wall Street Journal (Feb 8, 2001) Allan Sloan, "Iffy Long-Term Numbers Are Poor Excuse For Huge Tax Cuts and Wild Spending" - Washington Post (February 6, 2001) Gene Sperling: "Greenspan Should Have Thought Twice" - LA Times (February 5, 2001) E.J. Dionne, Jr. "...And Compassion for the Rich" - Washington Post (February 2, 2001) Alice Rivlin: "Why Fight the Surplus" - New York Times (January 30, 2001) News Articles Archive "Bush Budget's Low Growth Rate for Medicare Questioned by Lawmakers" - NY Times (Feb. 6, 2002) "Bush's Dip Into Deficts Could Lead to a Long Swim in Red Ink" - Los Angeles Times (Jan. 30, 2002) "Dwindling Surplus Helps Hill Rekindle Blame Game" - Washington Post (July 9, 2001) "Stupid Tax Tricks" - TIME Magazine (Jun. 11, 2001) "Still Uncertain, Budget Surplus Is Gobbled Up" - New York Times (May 29, 2001) "New Spending, Tax Cut May Bust Budget" - Washington Post (May 29, 2001) "Even For Wealthy, Tax Plan's Benefits Could Vary Widely" - New York Times (May 15, 2001) "Closer Look Shows the Senate Tax Bill Isn't All That It Seems" - New York Times (May 15, 2001) "Some See Deficiencies in Bush's Budget Math" - Washington Post (May 3, 2001) "Bush Budget on Health Care Would Cut Aid to Uninsured" - New York Times (April 4, 2001) "Budget Trims Take Parts of Clinton Vision" - The Washington Post (April 1, 2001) "Public Supports Bush, Is Divided on His Tax Cut Plan" - LA Times (March 8, 2001) "A Bigger Bite on You? For Middle Class, the Alternative Minimum Tax May Be Next Wave to Hit Home" - The Washington Post (March 4, 2001) "Estate tax repeal seen hurting state" - Boston Globe (February 16, 2001) "Specialists Say 1969 Law May Offset Benefits fo Bush's Tax-Cut Plan" - Boston Globe (February 26, 2001)