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

To: JDN who wrote (554837)	3/22/2004 2:20:29 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

President Bush's re-election campaign on Sunday pressed its case that Senator John Kerry would either raise taxes more substantially than he has acknowledged or deepen the budget deficit. Mr. Bush's campaign manager, Ken Mehlman, released an analysis that he said showed a $1 trillion gap over the next decade between spending increases Mr. Kerry has called for during the campaign and the tax increases he has already supported. Citing government estimates, newspaper reports and figures developed by research organizations, the analysis put a price tag of $1.7 trillion for the next 10 years on 28 major programs advocated by Mr. Kerry during his campaign. It said the tax increases Mr. Kerry had called for would raise about $700 billion over the same period, leaving a $1 trillion gap. In an advertisement this month, the Bush campaign said that Mr. Kerry would have to raise taxes by at least $900 billion. Mr. Mehlman said Republicans would spend this week aggressively seeking to define Mr. Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, as economically irresponsible. Congressional Republicans would join the attack, he said, and the Republican National Committee planned to put on its Web site a Kerry "Spend-o-Meter" to track his spending commitments.