Plug Puller! In his budget for fiscal 2006, starting next October, Mr. Bush proposed to cut Medicaid spending by an estimated $20.2 billion over five years. He also called for new tax breaks for Health Savings Accounts and small businesses providing employees with health coverage, which would cost Uncle Sam $7.4 billion. As a result, the net potential savings come to $12.8 billion over five years. Read It: This is the real neocon domestic agenda: cut taxes for the wealthy while eviscerating all government programs--other than those that equip us for perpetual war and corporate profits.