* Wants $439.3B Defense, $120B More For Wars, $70B More for Tax Cuts

[G_j]

So where is it all coming from?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5590464,00.html

Bush to Request $439.3B Defense Budget

Friday February 3, 2006 4:16 AM

By LOLITA C. BALDOR

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush next week will request a $439.3 billion Defense Department budget for 2007, a nearly 5 percent increase over this year, according to senior Pentagon officials and documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

The spending plan would include $84.2 billion for weapons programs, a nearly 8 percent increase, including billions of dollars for fighter jets, Navy ships, helicopters and unmanned aircraft. The total includes a substantial increase in weapons spending for the Army, which will get $16.8 billion in the 2007 budget, compared with $11 billion this year.
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Bush Wants $120 Billion More For Wars

POSTED: 4:54 pm EST February 2, 2006
UPDATED: 5:47 pm EST February 2, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration said Thursday it will ask Congress for $120 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and $18 billion more this year for hurricane relief.

If approved by Congress, the war money would push spending related to the wars toward a staggering half-trillion dollars.

Details of the requests are not final, but the 2007 budget proposal that President Bush will submit next week will reflect the totals for planning purposes. The president also will ask Congress to devote an additional $2.3 billion this year for prepare for a bird flu epidemic.

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Senate Passes $70 Billion Tax Bill

Friday February 3, 2006 4:31 AM


By MARY DALRYMPLE

AP Tax Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate passed $70 billion in tax cuts Thursday, one step in an effort that Republican leaders hope will preserve President Bush's tax reductions for capital gains and dividends.

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Republicans expect the final version of the bill to extend tax cuts for capital gains and dividends. It will be up to negotiators to determine how to use their instructions to cut taxes by as much as $70 billion over five years to deal with the growing alternative minimum tax and expiring tax breaks for investors.

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[Nordmadr]

1. China.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Destroy the USA to make room for the PNAC's ...

New World Order...it's been the plan all along. You are now W's slave!

[G_j]

3. kick

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. There's a helluva hangover looming. But, hell, that's tomorrow.

And, Bush will be out of office and telling us how "prosperous" his presidency was.

[ComerPerro]

5. But try to spend $20 million on a social program

and suddenly you are a tax-and-spend liberal who is just whoring for special interests

[Vinca]

6. How the hell are we going to survive 3 more years of this? nt