The speculation is that Mr Bush will push for tax breaks for businesses and a tax rebate for individuals, but will not insist on extending his tax cuts.
That was, however, in exchange for a bigger deal with Republicans for extending tax cuts for all but those at the top and continuing unemployment benefits, moves that, taken together, the Republicans have not publicly signaled they support.
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In the dark, a president chooses tax cuts for millionaires, but job cuts for steelworkers, firefighters and police.
Because if you look at what the Senate passed, the bill the President supported, and the tax cuts it extended for 98 percent of the American people, and you look at what the House passed, which was that same 98 percent, but tax cuts for the wealthiest 2 percent of taxpayers, the overlap is pretty substantial -- 98 percent.
Ever since the 2008 presidential campaign, President Obama has argued passionately for extending the Bush-era tax cuts for all but the richest 2 percent of Americans.
Short of that, there has been a bill languishing in the House for months now that would extend tax cuts for all but 2 percent of the American people -- all the working Americans, all the middle class -- everybody except the top 2 percent.
C. that there is broad agreement among Democrats and Republicans that we should extend tax cuts for middle-class families, but it's not going to happen because Republicans are standing up for tax cuts for wealthy people.
But it outraged businessmen clamouring for the tax cuts which Mr Martin has agreed to shelve.
But support for a stimulus plan with tax cuts climbs to 70 percent among Republicans.
But it has consistently pushed for corporate tax cuts, reductions in social services, and laissez-faire environmental policies.
The President has made clear that when we talk about the need for balance and raising revenue as part of a broader approach to deficit reduction, we are talking about protecting average Americans -- not just protecting them from tax hikes, but, as was noted earlier, extending tax cuts for them.
He reiterated his support for an extension of Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class but now for the wealthy.
It is probably already too late for a grand bargain that includes Social Security reform, but a smaller compromise perhaps trading some tax cuts for higher social spending and expansion of Medicare to include prescription drugs might prove attractive to a lame-duck president.
Having no money to spend, but still able to deliver tax cuts for people and businesses.
Reid, in contrast, asked Boehner to have the House vote on a measure passed by the Senate to extend tax cuts for all but the taxpayers at the top.
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He has laid out a plan for deep tax cuts, but not explained how he plans to square that task with his other big fiscal objective, grappling with the deficit.
To not support that, but then to demand protecting tax cuts for the wealthiest among us, and even extending them, is, to me, I would think an untenable position politically, even if it doesn't weigh on your conscience.
Thus, when Obama got behind preserving the Bush tax cuts for all but the wealthiest Americans, he did so knowing that he would never be able to expand the entitlement programs at any time during the remainder of his term.
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Also, Mr. Rubio did cast a "no" vote against one of the biggest bipartisan bills in recent times: the measure to extend the Bush tax cuts for all but the wealthiest taxpayers, which passed with a vote of 89-8 on New Year's Eve.
Now, I've cut taxes for folks who need it. (Applause.) For middle-class families, for small businesses. (Applause.) But I don't believe another round of tax cuts for millionaires are going to bring jobs back from overseas.
Pelosi said she would not seek to block the president's proposed stimulus plan over its lack of tax hikes for the rich, but she urged Obama not to simply let the tax cuts expire in two years.
But that was before the Fiscal Cave, which left the Bush tax cuts in effect for the lower and middle class, but raised them for the upper bracket, steepening the progressivity even further.
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The president has repeatedly called for even more tax revenue, but the American people don't support trading spending cuts for higher taxes.
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But having hoped for a dessert-spoonful of tax cuts, the opposition allowed him just a teaspoonful.
The Super Committee then can claim deficit reduction when the tax cuts expire (but only for the wealthy).
But either way, both the tax cuts for high-income households and the increase in the deficit would be enormous.
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But he also said he supports tax cuts for middle- and lower-income workers.
But he will not extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
The Senate Republican plan, which would extend the Bush-era income tax cuts for everyone, but would allow the 2009 credits and the temporary payroll tax cut to expire.
Thus preventing the tax cuts from expiring for all but the wealthy adds to the deficit.
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