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3 Candidates With 3 Financial Plans, but One Deficit
LARRY ROHTER and MICHAEL COOPER,
The New York Times | April 27, 2008
Excerpt
With the national debt soaring to $9.1 trillion from $5.6 trillion at the
start of 2001, in part because of the Iraq war and Mr. Bush’s tax cuts, a
crucial question about the candidates to succeed him is “whether they are
helping to fill the hole or make it deeper,” said Robert L. Bixby, executive
director of the Concord Coalition, a nonpartisan organization that advocates
deficit reduction. “With the proposals they have on the table, it looks to
me like all three would make it deeper.”