Free Market
Author:
Roger W. Garrison
Online Publish Date:
The Free Market 21, no. 4 (April 2003) Elisabeth Bumiller reports in the Washington Post (”Bush’s $2.2 Trillion Budget Proposes Record Deficits,” 2/04/03) that a budget deficit of $304 billion is forecast for the current fiscal year—with higher deficits to follow. (These figures, she notes, leave the costs of a war with Iraq out of account.)