81.   Bush and Gore have argued over how best to spend trillions of dollars of theoretical future budget surpluses.

82.   Bush has proposed using a portion of the estimated federal budget surplus to finance the startup.

83.   Bush has taken some hits from McCain, who accused him of pursuing reckless tax cuts instead of salting the budget surplus away for Social Security and debt repayment.

84.   Bush defended the tax cuts as a fair way to return a portion of the budget surplus to taxpayers.

85.   Bush said it was important to use the budget surplus for tax relief and not give Congress additional money to spend for unneeded programs.

86.   Bush said many polls show that American voters would rather see the federal budget surplus devoted to purposes other than a tax cut.

87.   Bush won passage of a far less aggressive property tax cut paid for by a state budget surplus.

88.   Bush would finance his tax cuts from anticipated budget surpluses.

89.   Bush has said all along that there is money in the projected budget surplus to do everything that he has promised.

90.   But both are intended to commit Republicans to sending much of the projected federal budget surplus back to taxpayers.