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01/31/2003 Archived Entry: "dubya: not the biggest spender"

DUBYA: A BIG SPENDER, BUT NOT THE BIGGEST SPENDER: Both Steve and I took President Bush to task on this blog for the amount of spending he proposed in his State of the Union address. So I suppose it is only fair to note that the National Taxpayers' Union has reported that Bush proposed the smallest spending increases of the most recent State of the Union addresses.

Of course, given how bloated the government's budget is, why propose new spending at all? This half-hearted attempt at spending restraint doesn't placate this fiscal conservative, but I guess I can at least console myself with the fact that it could have been worse.