21.   He has proposed big cuts in the size of the armed forces and got parliament to sign several arms-limiting treaties.

22.   He backs eliminating both the estate tax and the so-called marriage penalty, and has proposed a cut in the capital gains tax.

23.   He also proposed cuts in spending, although not enough to satisfy his critics.

24.   His stimulative tax cuts were proposed at the height of the business cycle, when they might have been most inflationary.

25.   However, officials said that cuts would be proposed for several state agencies, particularly in the Departments of Environmental Protection and Human Services.

26.   In its first package, released last month, the LDP proposed cuts in corporate and land taxes, though it included no specifics.

27.   In its first package, released last month, the Liberal Democratic Party proposed cuts in corporate and land taxes, though it included no specifics.

28.   Inexplicably, the cuts were proposed the day after a Defense Department evaluation that gave the program a green light.

29.   It also presumably cushions against future reductions in Social Security benefits, although Bush does not indicate whether he would propose such cuts.

30.   It is fascinating, but not unexpected, that big tax cuts are being proposed to Congress even before the administration has issued its first budget.