Talk:Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Balanced Budget Act

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Re "late 1990's": George H. W. Bush stopped being president in 1993, and George W. Bush was not president until 2001. So how could either President George Bush have been responsible for spending policy in the late 1990s?

Simple. Read closely:

However, those balanced budgets did not actually emerge until the late 1990s after significant income tax rate increases under Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton.

Note how it says the late 1990s were after increases under the Presidents, not that that's when the increases were. Make more sense now? -- John Owens 12:15 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Thanks. I can now see the original intent. Reworded to:

However, those balanced budgets did not actually emerge until the late 1990s after the significant income tax rate increases under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton had had time to take effect.

The Anome 12:25 13 Jun 2003 (UTC)

There are now two pages on Gramm-Rudman-Hollings: This one and Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Act. They should be consolidated under "Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985." Dauster 14:01, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

--Icolson 22:48, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Apparently this initiative was abandoned. The articles are discussing the same act, so combine them both under the act name - "Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act" There's not much more you need to know than what the two articles contain.