"Bush's Class War Budget"

Read Paul Krugman's op-ed in today's NY Times, titled "Bush's Class War Budget" for a good assessment of who the winners and losers are under Bush's current budget proposal. Krugman discusses the fact that until the budget was released earlier this week, this notion of fiscal restraint has been "an abstract concept." Yet now we see this restraint tied to specific actions, and those actions will be incredibly harmful both now and in years to come, if this budget is indeed adopted by Congress.
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