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But at least for major legislation like the first Bush tax cuts, there was usually significant bipartisan support.

Now I'll type in how much I make, and how much I will save under Ronald Reagan's8 tax cuts.

One: we've got to extend the tax cuts for the middle class that are set to expire at the end of the month.

Most of this was the result of not paying for two wars, two tax cuts, and an expensive prescription drug program.

Mr Obama wants to pump up to $775bn into the economy over the next two years through tax cuts and investment in public infrastructure.

He said he would let the Bush-era tax cuts expire for the rich, but backed down after the mid-term elections.

Obama has said he would roll back some of Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy in the longer term.

In remarks Monday at the White House, Obama said the tax cuts were among several "urgent matters" he expected to come up at the meeting.

The White House said the extension of tax cuts is to avoid the key to the U. S. economy move into recession.

Senate Republicans said they were ready to fight to put more emphasis on tax cuts and less on new spending.

But, he said, on two of the dominant elements of his record - tax cuts and Iraq - he had no regrets.

The bill includes government spending and tax cuts designed to help push the U. S. economy out of recession.

Lu said the package "is not the be all and end all" ; Americans also need middle-class tax cuts and health care.

And that's why extending the high-end tax cuts is such a bad idea: it would deliver very little bang for a very large number of bucks.

She said the Democrats instead want to steer personal tax cuts to middle-class Americans.

Mr. Obama could and should be hammering Republicans for trying to hold the middle class hostage to secure tax cuts for the wealthy.

By the time tax cuts and spending increases arrive, the downturn is often over, and the extra stimulus simply adds inflationary pressure.

But household tax cuts, except for possibly the poorest, should have no place in the stimulus.

Mr. Obama said he would end the tax cuts that Mr. Bush enacted for the wealthiest of Americans.

Tax cuts can be implemented quickly and entail minimal waste, since the money shows up directly in people's pockets.

AMERICA'S mid-term elections are turning into a referendum on the role of the state, and George Bush junior's tax cuts are the litmus test.

The Tories have so far resisted calls to pledge tax cuts, saying the recession makes such a pledge implausible.

"Despite potential tax cuts and stimulus measures in major overseas markets, the outlook for global consumption remains bleak, " she said.

This comes on top of a $130 billion package doled out to Russian banks in the form of loans, tax cuts and delayed tax payments.

You know, he says there is no room, nor case for broad-based personal or corporate income tax cuts or credits or rebates.

"Despite potential tax cuts and stimulus measures in key overseas markets, the outlook for global consumption remains bleak, " she said.

By contrast, the relationship between policy measures such as tax cuts and the health of the economy is often a two-way street.

He wants to let the Bush administration's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans end next year, replaced by a middle-class tax cut.

Among the unions' demands were an end to public-sector job cuts, a boost to the minimum wage and a reversal of tax cuts for the rich.

"President Bush, with his economic plan, wants to stimulate the economy, get the consumer out spending, with his tax cuts, " he said.

But extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest families would be one of the worst possible ways to stimulate spending.

The Bush tax cuts, due to expire at the end of this year, could be extended and a short-term stimulus agreed upon.

The national debate will have to shift from which tax cuts do the most good to which tax increases do the least harm.

Only a small fraction of the Bush tax cuts will boost after-tax incomes soon enough to affect spending in the short term.

The latter category includes some tax cuts, but there was no reduction in personal or corporate taxes.

A combination of prior tax cuts, years of high spending and a brutal recession have produced the worst budget conditions in 75 years.

As for the tax cuts, they seem to have fanned demand, buoying prices.

The point is that nobody really believes that a dollar of tax cuts is always better than a dollar of public spending.

Silent fell the prime minister on the subject of tax cuts after all his promises at the last election .

Any tax cuts must not permanently increase the structural deficit and must be combined with a strategy to reduce it over time.

There may be some truth to this, but extending tax cuts to the rich is not a very efficient way of boosting the economy.

And this time it had better be a serious plan that doesn't rely on the magic of tax cuts, but instead spends money where it's needed.

Obama comes to the White House promising to pursue universal health-care coverage, alternative sources of energy and middle-class tax cuts.

The rest of the money would cover tax cuts that would offer relief for businesses and middle-class taxpayers.

"John McCain sided with the Democrats and voted against the Bush tax cuts, " he said.

Companies would receive $50 billion in tax cuts in the form of a temporary increase in deductions for certain business investments.

The biggest fight may be over the tax cuts passed under former President George W. Bush and set to expire at the end of the year.

U. S. President Barack Obama is calling on lawmakers to help him boost the economy with a new trade deal and compromises on tax cuts.

In a tacit acknowledgment, the White House held its own event on April 15, promoting tax cuts the administration had pushed through.

Republicans said the package contained too much wasteful spending and not enough tax cuts.

But in the likeliest scenario, the tax cuts would continue for households earning less than $250, 000 or so a year.

This suggests that public spending rather than tax cuts should be the core of any stimulus plan.

It should propose a temporary cut in payroll taxes, and an extension until 2013 of the Bush tax cuts, due to expire at the end of this year.

The result is an extra fiscal stimulus of $1, 000bn during the next two years rather than letting the Bush-era tax cuts expire.

She also wants to see another package soon after Mr Obama becomes president on January 20th, that would include permanent tax cuts.

Income-tax cuts planned in South Korea and Taiwan will have only a modest impact if the money is saved not spent.

In an interview last week, some industry continues insiders insist that the tax cuts policy of this year should last out till next year.

McCain now spends much of his time attacking Obama's tax plan, which would phase out the Bush tax cuts for upper income Americans.

In the end, Dole and Dominici are likely to embrace at least some tax cuts to go along with deep cuts in spending.

Furthermore, the office was assuming that certain policies, such as the Bush-era tax cuts for the rich, would not be continued.

Much of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is eager to arm itself for next September's federal election with tax cuts.

For the past eight years, tax cuts have been the favored means of pumping up the economy.

The recent tax cuts have left the door open for job creation and new investment in industry.

India also has introduced a variety of measures to help the domestic automotive industry, including tax cuts and lowering gas prices.

Extending all the tax cuts and combining this with a payroll tax holiday would be a difficult proposal for them to oppose.

And last week's extension of the Bush tax cuts, whether one agrees with them or not, means that our bailout tab won't have to paid just yet.

Tax cuts for the wealthy will barely be spent at all; even middle-class tax cuts won't add much to spending.

Most of it has been squandered on vote-seeking tax cuts, he calculates, not on bolstering the economy's growth prospects.

Mr Obama is also shrewdly reaching out to Republicans, proposing that a large part of the stimulus should take the form of tax cuts.

Early in the last decade, President Bush and Congress enacted a series of tax cuts that were designed to expire at the end of this year.

Republicans might be more inclined if the fiscal program took the form of tax cuts.

"They're going to have to explain to their constituents why they're holding up tax cuts for the middle class, " Axelrod said.

Unfortunately, a few centrist Democrats are joining the conservative stampede to extend the Bush tax cuts for this sliver of households.

The administration official would not offer details about the tax cuts Obama is likely to propose for the middle class.

But tax cuts benefit mainly large companies, which tend to pay higher wages, not the small, family-owned firms with thinner margins.

First, the fattening deficit makes it hard to put still more money in consumers' wallets through tax cuts or public spending.

Why would a temporary extension of the high-end Bush tax cuts be a highly ineffective form of stimulus?

He says he will pay for that by rolling back tax cuts on Americans making more than $250, 000 a year.

The president says tax cuts, spending restraint and hard work have kept the U. S. economy the envy of the world.

But more must be done to stop high joblessness becoming entrenched. Payroll-tax cuts and credits to reduce the cost of hiring would help.

An alternative approach is to try to tease out the statistical impact of changes in government spending or tax cuts on GDP.

Most of it will be in the form of tax cuts, with only 17% devoted to infrastructure and poverty relief.

Again, they will refuse to ask the wealthiest Americans to give up their tax cuts or deductions.

Tax rises of any kind (even allowing the unaffordable Bush tax cuts to expire as scheduled) are evil.

Obama had deliberately included in his bill a heavy chunk of tax cuts to try to win over Republicans.

and higher education tax cuts that go directly to pay for your or your child's tuition and dreams of a better future.

the census data also fail to take account of george bush ' s generous tax cuts , which have boosted take - home pay.

Some have proposed easing the pain by returning all the revenues of the tax to the public, either through other tax cuts or direct rebates.

But in 2004 the White House called for reduced spending to compensate for tax cuts and a rising deficit.

But with most Democrats strongly opposed to extending Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest households, even that may be a tough sell.

Reforms are also expected to be introduced for corporate income tax, business income tax cuts and personal income tax, he added.

The Obama campaign called the ad misleading and said Obama would provide tax cuts for a greater proportion of Americans than McCain.

with a fragile economy, the Democrats, if they get in, may have to rethink their plan to roll back George Bush's tax cuts.

Republicans threatened to block an extension of middle-class tax cuts unless Mr. Obama gave in and extended tax cuts for the rich too.

The other part of his record seized on by critics , especially Democrats, is his support for two rounds of tax cuts .

The tax cuts could boost the U. S. economic growth rate by a half percentage point or more in 2011, but they also widen the budget deficit.

The House bill reflects President Barack Obama's position that tax cuts should be allowed to expire for higher earners.

Dole gave a good speech, too, focusing on his lifetime of duty, his tax cuts, and his advocacy of traditional American values.

Mr McCain's recipe is simple. He wants to keep all the Bush tax cuts (except eliminating the estate tax) and add a few more.

Second, they argued that fiscal actions should take the form of tax cuts rather than temporary spending.

His proposals could cost around seven hundred seventy-five billion dollars in government spending and tax cuts over two years.

The Washington Post reported on Thursday that the business tax cuts could be potentially worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Prove you will fight as hard for tax cuts for workers and middle-class people as you do for oil companies and rich folks.

Richard Levin, the president of Yale, said Tobin would have wanted the stimulus package to create more jobs and contain fewer tax cuts.

Fidesz promised tax cuts, a simplified bureaucracy and a crackdown on corruption and criminality.

Then the Bush tax cuts came along, helping turn that surplus into a persistent deficit, even before the crash.

40% of the plan could come in the form of tax cuts. That provision is partly an effort to gain support from Republicans .

President Bush wants all his tax cuts made permanent to maintain productivity and consumer confidence.

See, if we were giving that speech, amid this market, we'd have said: "Congress, get back in session, and let's pas some tax cuts. "

If the FDP leader does not secure tax reform he will have won nothing; the CSU is almost as insistent on tax cuts as he is.

Now we're seeing more optimistic economic forecasts for the year ahead, in part due to the package of tax cuts I signed last month.

These benefits from personal tax cuts and mortgage ref is will support spending power over the next year, in our view.

Tax cuts get cash to consumers, but people may choose to save the money or spend it on imports.

But the tax cuts cannot be given all, or even much, of the credit for today's strong revenues.

The Heritage Foundation projection has large tax cuts actually increasing revenue by almost $600 billion over the next 10 years.

"These tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans are also the tax cuts that are least likely to promote growth, " Mr. Obama said.

But case studies do not measure the overall impact of tax cuts or spending increases on output.

Mr. Obama wants tax cuts for individual Americans and businesses to make up a significant portion of expected legislation.

I said that the reason why I opposed those tax cuts was because we didn't rein in spending.

The FDP, which reluctantly gave up the idea of further tax cuts, vetoed increases in income and consumption taxes.

That's less than half of 1 percent of the budget cost of those tax cuts.

What about tax cuts and job-creation once unemployment has fallen to its minimal inflation-safe level?

Another Republican wish is to retain tax cuts introduced by George Bush that would benefit millionaires and billionaires.

And although Mr Reinfeldt has promised a few tax cuts and some trimming of welfare benefits, his platform was not a radical one.

I consider the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy to be both fiscally irresponsible and morally troubling.

Spending increases will have to be offset, but revenue losses from tax cuts won't.

But it has consistently pushed for corporate tax cuts, reductions in social services, and laissez-faire environmental policies.

Ronald Reagan campaigned by touting tax cuts as a means to rescue the American economy from stagnation.

Eight years of tax cuts we could not afford added to trillions of dollars for two wars we could not afford.

After all, if you never have to offset the cost of tax cuts, why not just eliminate taxes altogether?

The 1980s tax cuts were only one part of a broad movement to reduce government's economic role. Another was deregulation.

Given doubts over the wisdom of more rate cuts, many scholars favor stimulating the economy through government spending or tax cuts.

Tax cuts, while tempting, cannot be relied upon, as some people save the proceeds or spend them on imports.

Government sources indicated yesterday that tax cuts may have to be made.

Wants all his tax cuts made permanent to maintain productivity and consumer confidence.

First, Mr. Obama should scrap his proposal for $150 billion in business tax cuts, which would do little to help the economy.

The extension of income-tax cuts by Congress at the tail end of 2010 adds to the worries of an overheated economy.

In an ideal world, countries would pair more short-term spending and tax cuts with long-term spending cuts and tax increases.

Absent a compromise, there will be a major tax shock at the start of next year as all of the tax cuts enacted under President Bush expire.

That these ideas were so widely accepted was a testament to the perennial political attractiveness of tax cuts and spending increases.

One irony is that the cause of all this Yankee humiliation isn't the familiar Euro-gripe about the "trade deficit" or tax cuts.

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged Congress on Monday to move quickly to extend middle class tax cuts.

Letting their tax cuts expire might reduce those bequests, but it will not reduce their current consumption significantly.

In the horse-trading , lawmakers are zeroing in on a plan that would trim the cost of some Senate - approved tax cuts.

We were promised a new way of doing business in Washington, which included tax cuts for ALL lower and middle class Americans.

He says it's designed to create three million jobs and includes tax cuts and billions to help states.

Can you imagine President Obama defying Axelrod's advice and the progressive wing of his party in support of the tax cuts?

found International Monetary Fund recently called for government spending, tax cuts and international cooperation to support growth.

The US consumer is still depressed, despite substantial tax cuts and lower gasoline prices, which boosted real incomes, in 2008.

He says it's designed to create three million jobs and includes tax cuts in billions to help states.

That's why I believe we should permanently extend the Bush tax cuts for all families making less than $250, 000 a year.

At issue: should broad tax cuts enacted during the Bush administration continue for all income levels, or only for the middle class?

Meanwhile, there's a real deficit issue on the table: whether tax cuts for the wealthy will, as Republicans demand, be extended.

The Obama stimulus plan will be a combination of government spending and tax cuts, proposals that will soon be debated in congress.

The tax cuts, to many of them (though not all) were unjustifiable then, but at least set to expire.

More money for welfare means less for investment and tax cuts, or a smaller financial cushion to soften the effects of a slowing economy.

Republicans say its tax cuts are insufficient, and that the economy will be saddled with debt for years to come.

When Republicans were recently offered a choice between preserving tax cuts and maintaining defence spending, they opted for the tax cuts.

Both candidates supported the bailout, and both call for tax cuts and policing of markets, but in tenor, they were polar opposites.

Democrats have tried to push a compromise: let tax cuts for the wealthy expire, but extend tax cuts for the middle class.

Let's quit taking money from Social Security Trust Fund to fund tax cuts for the wealthy and the war in Iraq.

Thus some of the cash which the plan generates will pay for tax cuts that will offset increases in electricity bills.

White House release notes to explain Barack Obama is driven, including tax cuts for small business measures 8 new bill.

It's not true, of course. Ronald Reagan said that his tax cuts would reduce deficits, then presided over a near-tripling of federal debt.

The president promised across the board tax cuts if re-elected.

Stimulus packages usually consist of a boost in government spending , tax cuts or both .

But the portfolio approach has been hard to sell since it lacks the clarity of a large infrastructure programme or huge tax cuts.

IMO first year expensing should have been the tax cut back in 2001 rather than the "Bush tax cuts" .

The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center puts the revenue loss from these tax cuts at $2. 9 trillion over the next decade.

To ensure the biggest effect on demand it would be best to tilt towards temporary spending rather than tax cuts, with one exception.

His speech, and issues like job creation, tax cuts, climate change and gun control, are more pressing than his fashion choices.

America needs to complement its short-term tax cuts with an agreement on medium-term deficit reduction.

He said broad tax cuts would do a better job of stimulating the economy.

We have reduced burdens on both enterprises and individuals through structural tax cuts and provided greater credit support to enterprises.

Mr Obama also said that his promised tax cuts for "95 per cent of working families" should be seen as part of a new fiscal stimulus.

The government announced big tax cuts in an attempt to regain its lost popularity.

But some critics blame his strong support of tax cuts for increased budget deficits in the United States.

Merkel's government has yet to say whether it will fund the tax cuts with debt or cut spending elsewhere.

There were also promises to raise spending on health and education, as well as tax cuts for the urban middle class.

Thanks to the tax cuts we passed, Americans' paychecks are a little bigger today.

That economic stimulus plan included the loosening of credit restrictions , tax cuts and massive infrastructure spending.

With the economic recovery clearly sputtering, could they be correct to insist that the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy be extended?

Even Alan Greenspan, who supported the tax cuts as chairman of the Federal Reserve, has publicly opposed their extension.

Our return to prosperity depends on permanent tax cuts, predictable policies, and sane deficits.

A primary focus is expected to be whether to extend all or part of the tax cuts passed by Bush administration in 2001 and 2003.

And sure enough, that same trademark deception and dishonesty is being deployed on behalf of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

President Obama has reached a deal with Republicans to extend the Bush tax cuts, in exchange for extending jobless benefits.

But those tax cuts for the next 10 years, every year, are going to cost us.

The best cure for deficits is growth, retorts the FDP; that will not happen without tax cuts.

But some economists say income-tax cuts would be more effective than fiscal stimulus packages that eye only specific areas.

Tax cuts: The middle class will get a tax cut quickly, say several Democrats familiar with the planning.

Days earlier Umberto Bossi, the leader of the Northern League, Mr Berlusconi's coalition partner, had called for tax cuts.

leaving government aside , boosting household spending is where tax cuts can be useful.

But many Democrats feel he has already conceded enough by allowing so many tax cuts in his own proposal.

Several measures meant to boost the economy are also set to expire, including payroll tax cuts and emergency unemployment benefits.

The new tax cuts are only applicable to people who earn more than US$100, 000 a year.

Obama, confronted by bank failures and auto-industry collapse, chose higher government spending, with tax cuts playing a smaller role.

Mindful of this precedent, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates aggressively in 2001, while politicians offered tax cuts.

In November's pre-budget report he announced a package of tax cuts today (and tax rises tomorrow), that will send the national debt soaring.

Nonetheless, Congress was flooded with bills proposing everything from quickie tax cuts to protectionist trade curbs.

It finds that a large part of the supposed savings from spending cuts would go, not to reduce the deficit, but to pay for tax cuts.

Democrats object to keeping tax cuts for the rich at a time when the government is struggling with deep budget deficits.

They accused former Republican President George W. Bush of creating the deficit problem by paying for the Iraq war with tax cuts.

The high gasoline prices swallowed almost all the increase in incomes from U. S. tax cuts enacted in December.

But it doesn't address the much costlier expiration of George Bush's tax cuts at the end of this year.

It was smaller than the left wanted, and included temporary tax cuts as well as increases in spending.

Not the Republican Party, unless you count its ritual calls for tax cuts and deregulation.

Reagan's tax cuts, the biggest in history, led to huge deficits. But the economy started to grow steadily again.

P. now suggests that saying no, and letting the Bush tax cuts expire on schedule, is the lesser of two evils.

Those with big dividend yields should benefit from extensions of the Bush tax cuts, which favor dividend income.

Before the agreement, Senate Republicans had threatened to block other measures unless the tax cuts for the richest Americans were extended.

Likewise, one might argue that without big tax cuts to prop up consumer spending, America's deficit would have shrunk further.

He dismissed suggestions by Republican lawmakers that an extension of George W. Bush's tax cuts would provide an effective fiscal remedy.

But, he added, tax cuts should be aimed at people likely to spend money rather than save it.

But his real sleight-of-hand is to count handouts administered through the tax code as "tax cuts" .

Like everyone else, they are divided over contentious issues like health policy, the Bush tax cuts and the war in Iraq.

But the debate about whether to extend the expiring tax cuts is certain to come to a head in November.

Malcolm Turnbull, the Liberal leader, wants tax cuts, not public spending, to boost the economy, and opposes the stimulus package.

Under Reagan, they simply became the party of tax cuts, without any commitment to fiscal responsibility.

Your goal, along with the expiry of the high- end Bush tax cuts, should be to simplify the definition of income.

Voters look to the FDP for sophistication in economics. But it started by demanding unaffordable tax cuts.

Republicans are advocating a much smaller stimulus package that focuses mostly on tax cuts and spending on infrastructure.

Agreement with the CDU should be straightforward on income tax cuts and inheritance tax reforms.

The black-yellow balm promised by Ms Merkel will take the form of tax cuts.

Yet NRW's voters apparently rejected its boldest ideas: tax cuts, health reform and longer operating lives for nuclear power plants.

Some on the Tory right also want a change of approach, though they favour tax cuts over an easing of the spending squeeze.

Its credibility was damaged by the FDP's insistence on tax cuts that most voters (and many in the CDU) think are unaffordable.

And if Congress does nothing, the Bush-era tax cuts expire at the end of the year.

Often they own political parties: the Republicans kept alive President Bush's tax cuts for the richest Americans.

Much of it consisted of tax cuts, not spending.

The expiration of Mr Bush's tax cuts at the end of next year imposes a deadline for dealing with the tax code.

He wants to raise personal and investment taxes, but mostly to give exceedingly broad tax cuts and credits elsewhere.

Extending the middle- class tax cuts but permitting tax cuts for the wealthy to expire on schedule supports both goals.

As long as the economy is weak and consumers aren't spending, tax cuts will add to the cash pile, not create jobs.

I understand Obama's rationale: perhaps tax cuts would not have stimulated a recovery quickly enough.

His proposals include tax cuts and creating new jobs through increased government spending on public works projects.

Congressional Democrats are working on a stimulus of temporary tax cuts and spending increases.

S. and elsewhere, but corporate tax cuts, followed by individual tax reductions, reversed the pattern of out-migration.

These reductions follow an extension of the Bush-era tax cuts which benefit the nation's wealthiest people.

How about the tentative deal to extend tax cuts and unemployment benefits in the U. S. ?

The Bush administration's tax cuts will expire at the end of this year.

A rally based on improving economic reports and the extension of tax cuts for another two years have pushed stock indexes to two-year highs.

He voted against two of George Bush's three tax cuts but for the war in Iraq.

It also includes a sprinkling of business tax cuts, in part to tempt Republicans to vote for it.

The two candidates clashed frequently over such issues as tax cuts, Iran's nuclear ambitions and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

It contained seven hundred eighty-seven billion dollars in spending increases and tax cuts to strengthen the economy.

Reagan, faced with double-digit inflation and interest rates, focused mostly on government spending and tax cuts.

Deadlock over the Bush tax cuts will see them expire, letting taxes rise sharply by default.

But I also think that his tax cuts, which were very large, spurred economic growth in a way that wasn't sustainable.

But Howard's tax cuts have convinced Penrith mother of four Sharon Cliffe to stay with the Liberals.