The Week

■ Cost of Government Day fell on July 13 this year, and gets later with every deficit reduction.

■ Republican senators are saying that the mid-session budget review will show a $5 O-billion drop in the deficit projected for 1993. So can we cut $50 billion off the tax burden? No, actually, because the Clinton Administration is refusing to release the review until its deficit-reduction plan has been passed. Bob Dole, Thad Cochran, and other Republicans not unreasonably want to know the size of what it is they’re reducing. If we ain’t broke, don’t tax us.

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■ Cost of Government Day fell on July 13 this year, and gets later with every deficit reduction.

■ Republican senators are saying that the mid-session budget review will show a $5 O-billion drop in the deficit projected for 1993. So can we cut $50 billion off the tax burden? No, actually, because the Clinton Administration is refusing to release the review until its deficit-reduction plan has been passed. Bob Dole, Thad Cochran, and other Republicans not unreasonably want to know the size of what it is they’re reducing. If we ain’t broke, don’t tax us.