In evaluating presidential plans you must evaluate whether the spending priorities are the ones you want. These plans serve mostly as a way to make judgements about what a presidential candidate might do if elected. But the president only has the power to propose a budget. Any final plan will be a bargained affair. So let us not knit-pick the various plans too closely.
Plans are only useful as guides that give an idea of presidential priorities.
The spending side is fairly clear for these two plans although not real detailed on the Gore side. But there is controversy about the Bush tax cut plan. Let's look at a recent analysis of the Bush plan handed out by one of its architects, Lawrence Lindsey. The Bush tax cut plan is portrayed as 'progressive' not 'regressive' by the Bush people. That means that more tax relief goes to lower rather than higher income earners.