President Bill Clinton telephoned Hashimoto and urged him to take a "bold course" with new initiatives, including tax cuts.
The weak private-sector spending counteracted a big round of stimulus spending unleashed by the government, including tax cuts for businesses.
The coalition agreement rejects a minimum wage, but the FDP may do a deal if the CDU accepts other priorities, including tax cuts.
The Bush administration is already discussing with Congress plans for further measures to boost the economy, including tax cuts and more interest rate reductions.
He also stakes claim to his role in the accomplishments of the Pataki administration, including tax cuts and the creation of 300, 000 jobs in the state.
Mr Rennie said Lib Dems in the UK government were working to get the economy back on track, including tax cuts for low and middle-income families, a green investment bank and an island fuel discount.
The so-called Lisbon Agenda called on EU governments to implement a range of economic and social changes, including tax cuts, reform of heath care and pension systems, and making it easier for companies to hire and fire workers.
He'll talk about the contrast and the difference between the visions that he is presenting and Mitt Romney is presenting on many issues that impact the middle class, including health care, including education, including access to -- including tax cuts.
Dr. MICKEY LEVY (Chief Economist, Bank of America New York): So, the fiscal stimulus, now that it moves to the top of the priority list, that stimulus package will include some of the components of Obama's economic platform, including tax cuts for the middle and lower income households.
The IMF's warnings against an overreliance on austerity came as Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, held out the prospect of government action, including possible tax cuts, to stimulate domestic demand.
The House will return next week for the lame-duck session, facing major, unfinished business, including how to avoid the fiscal cliff -- the end-of-the-year deadline that looms before huge spending cuts kick in and tax breaks begin to expire, including the Bush-era tax cuts.
President Barack Obama suggestd steeper payroll tax cuts in his jobs speech to Congress on Thursday, this time including cuts for employers along with another round of payroll tax cuts for employees.
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And it has reversed nearly all the tax cuts, including to the annual wealth tax, that Mr Sarkozy brought in.
In return, Athens agreed to introduce a new round of austerity measures, including job cuts and tax rises.
McCain has proposed extending President Bush's tax cuts, including those of high-income earners.
The Republican-controlled House has passed an economic stimulus package that includes new corporate tax cuts, including elimination of the alternative minimum tax on corporations.
Weighed down by a deficit more than four times the EU's limit, Greece has initiated a number of austerity measures, including sweeping tax rises and deep cuts in public spending.
Mr Kwarteng told the BBC that he would like to see more done to generate growth, including further cuts to corporation tax, but the government had "generally the right approach" on the economy and Mr Osborne should stay as chancellor.
Writing in the Mail on Sunday, the MP - touted by some as a future leadership candidate - said the coalition "is about to enter the last chance saloon" and must consider a radical programme of tax cuts, including phasing out employers' national insurance contributions.
And when Governor Romney stands here, after a year of campaigning when during a Republican primary, he stood on stage and said, I'm going to give tax cuts -- he didn't say tax rate cuts, he said tax cuts -- to everybody including the top 1 percent, you should believe him, because that's been his history.
Conversely, Republicans want to retain the Bush tax cuts for everyone including the upper income.
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Moreover, Democrats are likely to have to yield to Republican demands to extend the Bush-era tax cuts for everyone, including the rich, for the time being.
But now, with President Obama having agreed to a two year extension of the Bush tax cuts for everyone, including millionaires and billionaires, the 2011 and 2012 option could be more attractive.
Argument No. 2 against tax cuts, which many economists fall for, including, apparently, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, is that cuts themselves produce inflation.
That plan would have extended the tax cuts for all taxpayers, including those at the top.
In return for its international bailout, Greece has imposed several rounds of stringent austerity measures, including sweeping spending cuts and a series of tax hikes, in an effort to reform its economy.
The move is likely to be part of a package of spending cuts and tax hikes, including a sharp rise in the capital gains tax, to cure a gaping hole in the budget.
Furthermore, the outcome of the negotiations, the so-called sequestration, was clearly not a set of policies intended to heal the economy, but rather, a set of Draconian measures including across the board tax increases and uniform spending cuts, intended to punish both sides if an agreement was not reached at some point the future.
"Children and families are already being hit hard by cuts to support, including those to tax credits, maternity benefits and help with housing costs, " they write.
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