On the one hand, Americans like tax cuts and handouts as much as anyone.
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Nor stimulus or any of the other ideas like tax cuts that we might think of to create a boom.
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In his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention, Obama made fun of pro-growth policies like tax cuts and deregulation.
When you ask folks about what was actually in the Recovery Act, they think it's full of good ideas -- like tax cuts, like infrastructure investment, like unemployment relief.
Steps like extending the tax cuts for the middle class that are set to expire this year.
It will be much harder for Democrats to find unity on other issues, like trade, tax cuts and above all, Iraq.
Similarly, Democrats try to kick the can into 2013 like with the Bush tax cuts and the harshest implements of ObamaCare.
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Romney's jobs plan is the old Republican standby: giving millionaires like himself even more tax cuts and waiting for the jobs to trickle down to the rest of us.
Obama told a bipartisan group of congressional leaders on Monday that he would like a package of tax cuts and spending proposals on his desk by the end of January.
Boehner would like to make the tax cuts permanent.
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And the Congressional Budget Office has found that tax cuts like these for American workers are more than three times more effective in stimulating recovery than tax breaks for the very wealthiest Americans.
And how concerned at all is the President that the Republicans could retaliate by withholding or by resisting compromise on things like extending the payroll tax cuts for the full year, or perhaps even harden their opposition, their resistance to further nominations?
It now looks like the Bush-era tax cuts will (at last) be extended for everyone, probably for 2011 and 2012.
Like the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, this credit, which was enacted as part of the 2009 stimulus, is also scheduled to expire at the end of this year.
Some have suggested that we go back to the tired economics of the past that got us into this mess in the first place, like making budget-busting tax cuts, turning record surpluses into record debts, and squandering assets abroad instead of investing in nation building here at home.
The other side right now, their only agenda is to provide tax cuts to folks like me.
George W. Bush entered office with a modest, insular agenda, focussed on tax cuts and programs like No Child Left Behind.
"The campus Republicans and Democrats should talk about issues that pertain to us, like education, budget cuts and tax issues, " said student Monique Maravilla.
See, for folks like these, the small business tax cuts this administration has passed mean the difference between those kind of businesses hiring new employees or handing out pink slips.
Was there any consideration when you put the budget together to either paying for some of the extension of policies, like the AMT or the Bush tax cuts, or not permanently extending them?
Governor Romney and his allies in Congress think that the solution, the way we provide strong growth and opportunity, is to provide tax cuts for folks like you. (Laughter.) And, listen, I understand nobody likes paying taxes, but that recipe we tried.
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While many like to pretend that the Bush tax cuts brought about a decade of decent growth before it all fell apart in the final days of his presidency, this is simply not the truth as the 8 years of President Bush were not particularly successful from a growth perspective.
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Republicans would like to extend the Bush Tax for everyone, and some Republicans would like to make these cuts permanent for everyone.
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Like the rest of Bush's tax cuts, the 0% rate expires at the end of 2010--and might disappear sooner if Democrats gain control of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue in the November elections.
This is, well OK it depends upon precisely which economic theories you like I suppose, avoidable unemployment and is what all of those things like the stimulus, fiscal expansion, tax cuts and so on are designed to reduce.
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But at the same time, I think the President believes that on a whole host of issues -- national security, middle-class tax cuts, and things like that -- that there ought to be -- we ought to be able to put aside some of those differences to get what we agree on done for the American people.
When he was ahead in the polls, he tended to stress his policy proposals: partial privatisation of Social Security, tax cuts, school vouchers and the like.
Mr Bush would also like to find a way to ensure that the tax cuts he enacted in his first years in office do not expire entirely, as they are currently scheduled to do, in 2010.
In recent months, the business community has scored a few major victories, chief among them a temporary extension of the Bush-era tax cuts and several other tax provisions, like renewal of the research and development tax credit.
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