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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SecularBull who wrote (351620)	1/31/2003 10:31:01 PM
From: Steve Dietrich	Respond to of 769667

That's another thing that went down under Clinton. Federal spending as a percent of gdp was lower under Clinton than Reagan. In a humorous aside, Bush said he wanted to hold federal spending to only 4% annual increases. That's faster than it went up when Clinton was President, and faster than our economy is likely to grow. I don't know how much the Republican congress helped curb spending. They're sure going hog-wild today. But what does this have to do with your assertion that tax increases would lead to a severe recession? They didn't in '83, or '92, for example. Steve