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Published: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:00:00 GMT - Source: News.Scotsman.Com - Read the articleNews And MediaBirthday girl
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Published: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:52:42 GMT - Source: News.Bbc.Co.Uk - Read the articleIssuesWash. Post 's Shear reported Democrats criticized McCain's budget plan, but not that nonpartisan analysts dispute its projections
In a July 8 Washington Post article headlined "McCain
Says He Would Balance Budget by 2013," staff writer Michael D. Shear reported that "Democrats immediately criticized McCain, asserting that
his promise
is unrealistic, given his stated goals of tax cuts and other government
spending." But criticism of McCain's budget plan is not confined to
Democrats, as other media outlets noted in reporting on McCain's plan. In
contrast to the Post, The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, the Associated Press, and the Los Angeles Times all included in their
reports the view of fiscal analysts, who said that McCain's plan to
balance the budget in four years is unlikely. Moreover, as Media Matters for America previously
noted, several economists and nonpartisan analysts have reportedly said
that McCain's proposal for
numerous tax cuts would bloat the deficit or require huge spending cuts.
In a New York Times
article headlined "Skepticism
on McCain Plan to Balance Budget by 2013," Robert Pear
reported that "economists and fiscal experts" said
that "[t]he package of spending and tax
cuts proposed by Senator John
McCain is unlikely to achieve his goal
of balancing the federal budget by 2013." Similarly, The Wall Street Journal reported (subscription required):
"Though aides said he pledged to balance the
budget within four years, the
campaign didn't say how
he plans to do this, beyond cutting pork, which many analysts and
government watchdogs say is unlikely to get
him there."
The AP's Charles Babington and
Liz Sidoti wrote that "McCain has
given mixed signals in recent months over
whether he would make
it a priority to balance the budget within four
years, a goal that
most economists consider to be at odds
with McCain's call for
continued tax cuts." Similarly, the Los Angeles Times' Maeve Reston and Louise Roug
reported that "McCain's pledge also
defied skepticism among fiscal analysts over
whether he could balance the
budget even within eight years. ... Many say
his proposed expansion of President Bush's tax
cuts would put that
goal out of reach."
As Media Matters documented, media analyses of McCain's economic plan have
noted that economists and
nonpartisan analysts say that
McCain's proposals will require massive spending cuts
or will increase the
deficit. Further, the Tax Policy
Center -- a joint venture of the Urban Institute and the
Brookings Institution that describes itself as "made up of nationally recognized experts in tax, budget, and
social policy" -- estimates that
McCain's proposals would cost
"about $5.7 trillion over
ten years if they
could be enacted immediately," or $5.4 trillion if "they don't take
effect until October 2009." According to the center, "Cuts this
size would pare government back
to levels not seen
since the Eisenhower administration. In FY 2012, tax
revenues would be reduced by about $550 billion compared with
current law (with the
tax cuts expired). That
is roughly equal to CBO's baseline projection for
all nondefense discretionary spending." The report concluded:
These estimates make
one thing clear. Senator McCain plans a radical downsizing of government. Slashing pork, earmarks, and underperforming programs would offset only a fraction of the revenues. Cuts
the size of those he proposes will require slashing discretionary spending and
entitlements, and probably even
reining in defense spending. Small wonder he has backed away
from his earlier pledge to balance the budget -- meaning that these tax cuts, like the
ones signed by President Bush, will be paid for
by our children.
From Shear's July 8 Washington Post article:
McCain has
said he would control the
deficit with economic growth and
by reducing wasteful spending in the military and
in discretionary programs.
Democrats immediately criticized McCain, asserting that
his promise is unrealistic, given his stated goals of tax cuts and
other government spending. Sen.
Barack Obama accused his
rival of peddling tired economic policies.
"John McCain's policies are
essentially a repeat, a regurgitation of what
we've been hearing from
the Republican Party over
the last two decades, maybe three," he said. "It's part
of the reason that
we're in the situation that
we find ourselves in right now."
Published: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:15:47 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the article
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