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Current Events » in reply to "$3T Bush budget to trim domestic programs."

You still never actually read the articles, do you?

--Cost curbs on Medicare providers

--Caps in subsidies to wealthy farmers

--Larger premiums for higher-income recipients

--Cutting the growth in Medicare spending from 8 percent to 7 percent, still double the rate of GDP growth. Apparently a smaller cut than Congress and Clinton's cuts back in 1997.

--Problems with the AMT, which hits higher-income people (you have noticed the middle class heading into that range? Why do you think AMT is an issue now, when it used to be a great way to Soak The Rich?)

Sorry, not seeing the poor taking a big hit here.

Face it, as far as Democrats are concerned, the big problem with Bush's budget is that it's Bush's. Period. The Reagan years all over again.

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