Brief
Commentary
June 21, 2001
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Abstract
[Financial Times] In many ways, the debate over the tax bill was simply a warm-up for the much larger budgetary issues that Congress and President George W. Bush must face over the next few years. There is little doubt that if healthcare and retirement spending increase as scheduled, taxes will in the long run go up well above levels that prevailed before the tax legislation was passed.
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