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Missing From Obama's Speech: Business Tax Cuts
In President-elect Barack Obama's major economic address today , he laid out one dozen key planks of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, including initiatives to: 1 . "double the production of alternative energy in the next three years" 2. "modernize more than 75 percent of federal ...
Obama Plan Includes $300 Billion in Tax Cuts
Obama Plan Includes $300 Billion in Tax Cuts
nytimes.com — Tax cuts for workers and businesses are nods to critics worried that the economic recovery program has... been too focused on government spending, advisers said. > (more) Obama Plan Includes $300 Billion in Tax Cuts
Obama plans to unveil big tax cuts
politico.com — President-elect Obama plans to propose huge tax cuts for businesses and middle-class workers that will total about... 40 percent of the package. (more) Obama plans to unveil big tax cuts
Lawmakers and Financial Experts Question Obama's Tax Cuts
washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from... the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) Lawmakers and Financial Experts Question Obama's Tax Cuts
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Bill Scher: Missing From Obama's Speech: Business Tax Cuts
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... on a sustainable path in the long-run. So keep pushing against ineffective business tax breaks, but also push for swift passage of the overall American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan. (Campaign for America's Future has set up a page to easily contact your congresspeople and voice your support.) Because every day of delay limits our ability to blunt the impact of the already 13-month long recession. And we need jobs now. Originally posted at OurFuture.org ...

Progressive Breakfast: Huge Job Loss Adds To Urgency
LiberalOasis : The Blog — ... with [the] wording, as it characterizes the stimulus in rather flattering terms ... Nevertheless, it suggests that -- if framed appropriately by the administration -- the stimulus could be quite popular indeed, a finding also implied by other surveys." DailyKos' SusanG tells Politico to read its own poll. OurFuture.org blogging: Poole on how it's "Up to Us" | Sirota on the "Good, Bad, and Ugly" | Lotke reports from the House | Scher on the missing tax cuts | Robinson on "Mythbusting" More Splits in the ...

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news.yahoo.com 1/9/2009 — AP - President-elect Barack Obama's proposed tax cuts ran into opposition Thursday from senators in his own party who said they wouldn't do much to stimulate the economy or create jobs. Senators from both parties agreed that Congress should do ...
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realclearpolitics.com 1/8/2009 — The lesson of the Bush era is that relying on tax cuts as the centerpiece -- often the only piece -- of economic policy is just plain bad policy.
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rasmussenreports.com 3/27/2009 — Democrats in the Senate are talking of cutting back President Obama's pledge of tax cuts for most Americans in the face of record deficits. But 63% of U.S. voters now say tax cuts would help the economy, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national ...
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politico.com 1/27/2009 — Obama has told House Republicans he will not compromise any further on tax cuts in the economic stimulus.
Lawmakers and Financial Experts Question Obama's Tax Cuts
washingtonpost.com 1/8/2009 — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
Tax Cuts Aren't The Solution
workinglife.org 1/7/2009 — Well, welcome back to all who have been kicking back for the past few days, including yours truly. This year is going to be quite interesting--and, unfortunately, not a happy one as far as the economy goes, or so I'm guessing. I'm not going to ...
Obama's Speech
minx.cc 2/24/2009 — Sounds like fun.Aides say the speech, which will have a heavy focus on the economy, will try and strike an optimistic tone. That's a sign Obama has heard the criticism, including from former President Bill Clinton, that he needs to...
Obama's Economic Team: The Missing Man
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