No candidate in either party is proposing to plunder the Social Security portion-- the issue is what to do with the non-Social Security surplus, also known as the " available surplus ."
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Democrats who contend too little is being spent on defense generally blame Bush's $ 1 . 35 billion, 10-year tax cut for trimming the available surplus that could have paid for needed improvements.
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His calculations indicated that the readily available surplus J46 jet engines would have more than enough power to drive the vehicle to over 400 miles per hour ( 640 km / h ).
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Daschle said Bush's proposal would actually cost $ 2 trillion, saying " it will consume all of the available surplus at the expense of prescription drug coverage, education, defense and other critical priorities ."
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The tax cut is tilted toward the rich, he said, and " it will consume nearly all of the available surplus _ at the expense of prescription drug coverage, education, defense and other critical priorities ."
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The tax cut the president wants, Gephardt said, " is so large it gobbles up the entire available surplus, forces the country to invade the Medicare trust fund and prevents us from adding a meaningful Medicare prescription drug benefit ."
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But on Thursday _ at a rally where he unveiled a list of tax-cutting ideas to the accompaniment of a fife and drums corps _ he said only that he would use " a major portion of the available surplus ."
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The Senate Republican analysis found, for example, that Gore's proposals would overshoot the available surplus by as little as $ 27 billion over 10 years if the costs of Gore's spending plans are assumed to be at the low end of credible estimates.
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Democrats who contend too little is being spent on defense generally blame Bush's $ 1.35 billion, 10-year tax cut for trimming the available surplus that could pay for the needed improvements, making it hard to find money for late $ 18.4 billion increase
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Any available surplus money should be set aside, Clinton said, until Congress and the White House can agree on a plan to shore up the Social Security system, which is on track to go broke sometime in the third decade of the next century.
