Bush's Big Domestic Agenda May Crimp Plans to Curb Deficit

Author: John D. McKinnon

Published: September 9, 2004

... "Already there are all these unexploded bombs in the budget," like the AMT and Medicare, says Leonard Burman, an Urban Institute scholar who also has been critical of Mr. Kerry's budget plans. "Building in additional spending programs and tax cuts in the distant future when we know the budget picture is going to turn bleak because of demographics is utterly irresponsible." ...