tax cuts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2017/11/19/gop-tax-bill-is-the-end-of-all-economic-sanity-in-washington/#774a835f77ef Of course, most of the Republican Congressmen are not actually insane; they know full well who this bill helps -- their donors, who will see fantastic returns on...

Of course any one with an once of honesty and half a brain has been well aware of this since at least the middle of the 1980's, but still we will have all the usual rabid appoligist try to spein this with defining/redifining the middle and taxes and tax cuts and what other word that could...

The rich said that they need the tax cuts in order to create jobs. Well, it's time for the rich to put money where their mouth is and use their fortunes to create jobs. They do not have any excuses not to do so. They claimed they can create jobs better than the government. Well lets see it!

CBS News Poll: Most Oppose GOP Tax Plan Only 26% want tax cuts for the rich*. 53% want tax cuts for the middle class only, and 14% think all tax cuts should expire. * I.E., tax cuts on marginal income over $250,000. This would be a winning issue with the public if democrats would make a...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101118/pl_nm/us_usa_congress_jobs Hmm..it appears that the GOP is willing to increase the deficit, by insisting on tax cuts for the rich, but refuses to increase the deficit by extending unemployment benefits for millions of lower and middle-class Americans...

Well... that was quick. Now what's particularly amusing is that less than a week ago, President Obama's weekly address signaled the opposite message: So... wtf?

The arguments over letting the Bush tax cuts "sunset", extend them partially, make them permanent, make some permanent.... Makes my head spin. We know Republicans generally want all the cuts, even for the wealthiest Americans, to be at least extended and preferably made permanent. Obama wants...

http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/2006/05/stoking_the_bea.html#trackback http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/07/AR2006050700924.html Interesting that cutting taxes hasn't led to smaller government, but rather some huge increases. Rauch makes the obvious (at...

An article co-authored by a Nobel Prize winning economist and former president of the World Bank (Joseph Stiglitz) shows that simply throwing tax cuts at an economy isn't the best way to help with a recession. Also: And last: http://www.cbpp.org/11-27-01tax.htm So to summarize, merely...

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5474477/ WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Wednesday that President Bush’s three rounds of tax cuts prevented a severe recession and helped spark the current economic recovery.