taxesandgrowth.ncpa.org - 2/12/2009
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Rebate checks were sent to taxpayers in the amount of $300 per individual and $600 per married couple. Personal income tax rates dropped from 39.6, 36, 31, and 28 percent to 35, 33, 28, and 25 percent, respectively. The child tax credit increased from $500 to $600 (effective 2001), and will ...
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 2/8/2009
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
It seems that J.M. Keynes himself thought this
was a good idea . And, indeed, it strikes
me as indefensible that a stimulus package featuring hundreds of billions of dollars of tax cuts doesn’t include any FICA provisions. Payroll tax cuts ...
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Payroll Tax Cuts as Stimulus
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Barack Obama Promised a Tax Cut for 95% of the American People
Wizbang —
... : "You're getting $600. What can you do with that? Not to be ungrateful or anything. But maybe it pays down a bill, but it doesn't pay down every bill every month..." Hmmmm...I'm not sure I understand how $13.00 a week, reduced to $8.00 a week in January, will do much for "paying down every bill every month." $54 per month (or $32), when offset by the increased taxes that will come from ending the infamous Bush Tax Cuts - which stimulated us out of a recession and brought 7 years of ...
The $13 a week stimulus - UPDATED
The Anchoress —
... Hmmmm…forget earrings…I’m not sure I understand how $13.00 a week, reduced to $8.00 a week in January, will do much for “paying down every bill every month.” $54 per month (or $32), when offset by the increased taxes that will come from ending the infamous Bush Tax Cuts - which stimulated us out of a recession and brought 7 years of ...
The $13 a week stimulus
The Anchoress —
... Hmmmm…I’m not sure I understand how $13.00 a week, reduced to $8.00 a week in January, will do much for “paying down every bill every month.” $54 per month (or $32), when offset by the increased taxes that will come from ending the infamous Bush Tax Cuts - which stimulated us out of a recession and brought 7 years of ...
The Obama Disaster -By The Numbers
Gateway Pundit —
... due to the the infamous Bush Tax Cuts. These tax cuts lifted the country out of its recession until the economy took a sudden nosedive in last quarter of 2008 after the mortgage bubble erupted. ...
$13-a-Week Stimulus Working 4 U?
The Anchoress —
... Hmmmm…forget earrings…I’m not sure I understand how $13.00 a week, reduced to $8.00 a week in January, will do much for “paying down every bill every month.” $54 per month (or $32), when offset by the increased taxes that will come from ending the infamous Bush Tax Cuts – which stimulated us out of a recession and brought 7 years of ...
Disaster of the Day– Charting the Obama Destruction
Gateway Pundit —
... : The 2001 George W. Bush taxcuts increased real annual GDP growth rate from 0.3 percent in 2001 to 2.5 percent in 2002. In the third quarter of 2003, GDP grew at a 7.2 percent annual rate. 1.4 million jobs were created in the nine months after August 2003. ...
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Rove: ‘No one that I know of is talking about tax cuts only.’
thinkprogress.org 2/7/2009 — On Fox News today, former Bush adviser Karl Rove responded to President Obama’s criticism last night of Republicans who offer “more tax cuts as the only answer to every problem we face,” by claiming, “no one that I know of is ...
So, US Liberal Bloggers, do you really want US torture investigated?
agonist.org 2/8/2009 —
I saw Bush for what he was before he got elected, I begged my US friends to vote for Gore, but they wanted the tax cuts Bush promised. Boy, how different would it have been if we had the Lock box Gore wanted for a rainy day and done a better job ...
That Old Sweet Tax Cut Song —
Booman Tribune
Tax cuts, tax cuts. That's all the Republicans believe in anymore (well that and gun show loopholes, attacking homosexual marriages and punking Barack Obama). But we've been living the tax cut dream for the last eight years. President Bush and the Republicans in Congress piled on tax cut after ...
Democrats Taking Us Off The Deep End —
Say Anything
First the depressing picture…
Now the words :
In 2003, amid debate about the Bush tax cuts and a budget deficit of merely $400 billion, Maine Senator Olympia Snowe demanded that any tax cuts be capped at $350 billion. “At a time of growing federal deficits,” the ...
Thank the Centrists —
The Democratic Daily
Thank the centrists in the Senate for all those cuts in the stimulus package that have made the plan a good deal smaller and more focused on tax cuts. Paul Krugman noted this evening that, “ according to the CBO’s estimates , we’re facing an output shortfall of almost 14% of GDP over the ...
Queen Nancy Said What? —
Stop The ACLU
Um, huh ?
The new Senate cuts, if passed, “ will do violence to the future ,” said Pelosi , who is also pressing a reluctant Obama to repeal Bush administration tax cuts for the wealthy before they expire at the end of 2010.
Unfortunately, it looks like some wishy washy Rerhinocans ...
Queen Nancy Said What? —
Pirate's Cove
Um, huh ?
The new Senate cuts, if passed, “ will do violence to the future ,” said Pelosi , who is also pressing a reluctant Obama to repeal Bush administration tax cuts for the wealthy before they expire at the end of 2010.
Unfortunately, it looks like some wishy washy Rerhinocans ...
News From the Fifth Columnists —
Daily Pundit
Pelosi dismisses bipartisanship calls - Glenn Thrush and Patrick O’Connor - Politico.com
The new Senate cuts, if passed, “will do violence to the future,” said Pelosi, who is also pressing a reluctant Obama to repeal Bush administration tax cuts for the wealthy before they expire at the ...
Grasping at Talking Points —
The Corner on National Review Online
Nancy Pelosi:
The new Senate [stimulus] cuts, if passed, "will do violence to the future," said Pelosi, who is also pressing a reluctant Obama to repeal Bush administration tax cuts for the wealthy before they expire at the end of 2010.
Um, what?
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