Budget

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  • Planned Parenthood on Bush's budget

    When it comes to funding programs that encourage reproductive health, the budget chooses to abstain.
  • My big, fat, unpaid credit card bill

    When the statements piled up and the creditors started calling, I had to do the unthinkable -- confront my mounting debt.
  • A balanced budget in 2012? Yep, if war is free by 2010

    At the White House, it's easy to predict a balanced budget but hard to predict the price of war.
  • The price of war

    Remember last year's budget projections for Iraq and Afghanistan? Forget them.
  • We're No. 4!

    Bush has "good news" on the budget deficit.
  • Maxed out

    If Bush is so good at cutting deficits, why do we need to raise the debt limit again?
  • Surprise! Bush budget sucks for women

    The fiscal year 2007 budget cuts funding for almost every program with "women" in the title.
  • The Bush budget: Iraq and Afghanistan on $50 billion a year

    After budgeting nothing for the wars for 2006, the White House has penciled in $50 billion for 2007.
  • Show us the money

    New poll: If Americans had their say on the Bush budget, domestic spending would top the list.
  • "Compassionate conservatism," R.I.P.

    Bush's budget barely cuts his vast deficit -- and the people it hurts worst are the poorest Americans.
  • Letters

    Readers weigh in on Bush's huge tax handout, Arianna Huffington's challenge to wimpy Dems, and the truth about America's slave legacy.
  • Starving the SEC

    Bush is suddenly calling for a stronger SEC -- but his previous actions make a mockery of his words.
  • That '80s show

    Elephantine military budgets, feed-the-rich tax cuts, ballooning deficits! Democrats charge that Bush is trying to revive those glorious days of Reaganomics. But do they have they guts to fight him?
  • Bush's budget goes for broke

    The new budget numbers make it clear that the president's tax cut was aimed at bankrupting the treasury all along.
  • Long live big government!

    Bush's tax cut, based on deceit and bad math, doesn't just screw us economically -- it exposes an administration that's both blind to our needs and less effective than ever.
  • "A dangerous step backwards"

    Why has President Bush cut funding to combat nuclear proliferation in Russia, and will Congress be able to bring it back?
  • The Bush education plan is too timid

    We need to give families a choice -- and that means vouchers and charter schools.
  • Other people's money

    President Bush's proposed tax cut would wrest control from tax-and-spend Democrats and return power to the people.
  • Medical mistakes are killing us

    Health plans covering federal workers will be the first to improve the quality of care.
  • Republicans lost in space

    Polls suggest that the "Democrats' issues" will dominate next year's elections; if so, the GOP better learn how to fight more effectively in a hurry or it will be in for a bruising.
  • Horse races, open spaces and the fate of Genghis Khan's balls

    In his first dispatch from an epic Beijing-St. Petersburg train trip, our correspondent explores the mysteries of Mongolia.
  • Goodbye, Khao San Road

    As he leaves Southeast Asia, our Vagabonding correspondent reflects on the evolution of the middle-class travel revolution.
  • A cheap sleep in San Francisco

    Our expert offers tips on top budget hotels in San Francisco and Alsace, airlines' emergency ticket-fee waivers and Maine's coastal treasures.
  • Three strikes and you're in

    California's Democratic governor and Legislature fight each other over whether to build a new prison.
  • The cheapest air ticket around

    Dawn MacKeen explains the ins and outs of flying as a courier.
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