Even Alan Greenspan, the cautious chairman of the Federal Reserve, had started to fret about what the government would do with all the surplus revenues filling its coffers.

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When 72 percent say the budget surplus should first be used to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, it's impossible to make a case for giving all the surplus away in a giant, unnecessary, unwanted, across-the-board tax cut.

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Bush's plan, they say, would eat up all of the surplus and then some.

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