Allen told voters he would "trust the people" as he pushed for an across-the-board tax cut.
When 72 percent say the budget surplus should first be used to strengthen Social Security and Medicare, it's impossible to make a case for giving all the surplus away in a giant, unnecessary, unwanted, across-the-board tax cut.
Mr Bush may be willing to privatise Social Security by introducing individual retirement accounts (as The Economist would like) but he may well succumb instead to an across-the-board tax cut.
Republicans get their desired across-the-board tax cut extension, albeit for at least two years.
You may be calling for an across-the-board tax cut for the banking industry right now.
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The bill, the first major tax cut in 20 years, cuts income tax rates across the board, reducing the lowest rate from 15 percent to 10 percent, and the highest rate from 39.6 percent to 35 percent.
Income tax rates were cut across the board by 20%, and the highest tax rate was lowered from 50% to 37%.
On the tax side, Romney promises to extend the Bush-era tax cuts, then cut individual rates by 20 percent across the board, repeal the estate tax and the Alternative Minimum Tax, and repeal the tax hikes in the 2010 health law.
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When Reagan took office in 1981, he proposed a 10 percent across-the-board personal income tax cut each year for three years.
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Some of these ideas have been modest, but plans such as Bush's call for a sweeping across-the-board cut in income tax rates, a massive national missile defense effort and fundamental restructuring of Social Security and Medicare represent the sort of bold departures from which his father recoiled.
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With many companies understandably angry over the loss of their favored treatment, they could likely be placated by an across-the-board cut in corporate income tax rates.
Romney wants to cut tax rates across the board.
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To increase their odds of getting the tax bill through the Senate, the sponsors scaled back some of Bush's tax-cut priorities, such as the across-the-board rate cut and elimination of the marriage penalty, and added provisions appealing to moderate Democrats, including education tax credits and pension reform.
Similarly, after Reagan cut income tax rates across the board by 25% in 1981, and then adopted the 1986 tax reform reducing the top income tax rate from 70% when he entered office all the way down to 28%, the economy boomed throughout the 1980s, and federal revenues doubled, despite the rate cuts.
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As President, Reagan cut federal income tax rates across the board for all taxpayers by 25%.
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As President, he cut federal income tax rates across the board for all taxpayers by 25%.
Similarly, while President Reagan cut tax rates by 25% across the board, and reduced the top income tax rate from 70% all the way down to 28%, federal tax revenues doubled during the 1980s.
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He cut all the other income tax rates by 25% across the board.
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And they asked a basic question: What are the pros and cons of using a VAT to cut the deficit compared to an across-the-board hike in income tax rates.
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On taxes, Romney was asked what tax deductions he would limit in order to cut taxes for all Americans across the board.
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It could cut the tax rate on food and reduce proposed income-tax cuts to make up the revenue shortfall, or simply cut government spending across the board.
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