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Spending

• January 22 -- Gov. Pataki's High-Spending Love-In
James McKinley Jr. sends a valentine to New York Gov. George Pataki: "This year, the governor stressed togetherness and optimism in his 55-minute budget address. Gone was his hard-line stance against raising taxes or spending."

• January 5 -- "Aversion to Taxes" Hurting States
John Broder hints that voters' refusal to embrace tax hikes are hurting vital programs: "Voters roundly rejected the [Alabama] tax increase in the fall, and now cuts have begun. Five thousand nonviolent offenders are being paroled early from prisons, troopers have gone to a four-day workweek, and schools have run out of money for textbooks and computers."

• July 31 -- Our Incoherent President
A Times editorial argues: “Bush should have been able to come up with better responses to two big and obvious questions: why he ordered the invasion of Iraq and why he pushed for tax cuts that have left the nation sinking into a hopeless quagmire of debt.” That’s before it lambastes “Mr. Bush’s vague and sometimes nearly incoherent answers.”

• April 22 -- Pain in Maine If Tax Cuts Reign
Reporter-turned-editorialist Francis X. Clines accuses “administration zealots” of “trickle-down conceits” and “tax-cut triumphalism.” And those are the nice parts.