Bush Touts Tax Cuts, Aide Acknowledges 'Soft Patch'
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President Bush said on Saturday his tax cuts were working to lift growth but a senior aide acknowledged that the economy hit a "soft patch" over the last six or eight weeks.
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President Bush has vowed to make tax reform a centerpiece of a second term, but Treasury economists warned in 2002 that simplification of the nation's tax system would likely lower taxes for the rich and could have devastating political consequences for its champions.
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President George W Bush outlines his budget for 2005, pledging to halve the US deficit in five years.
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Convinced the US economy is prospering, President Bush in his second term will put even greater emphasis on tax reform, economic experts said Wednesday.
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Buoyed by a clear-cut election victory, President Bush is pledging to make permanent the sweeping tax cuts of his first term and to simplify the nation's tax laws.
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Congress is now poised to hand President Bush an election-year tax cut victory after Senate and House of Representatives negotiators on Wednesday night agreed to extend popular tax breaks for children and couples for five years.
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LIMA, Ohio  - President Bush said on Saturday his  tax cuts were working to lift growth but a senior aide  acknowledged that the economy hit a "soft patch" over the last  six or eight weeks.
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President George W. Bush on Friday called for a package of tax cuts and other measures totaling around $140 billion to shore up the fragile U.S. economy.
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WASHINGTON - Just in time for the election, President Bush is going to one of the most contested states to sign his fourth tax cut in four years.    The White House is holding the signing ceremony Monday at a YMCA in Des Moines, Iowa - a Democratic area of a state that Bush lost by a razor-thin margin in 2000...
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President Bush is likely to tout tax reform as a broad campaign theme but nothing as sweeping as a national sales tax, despite recent warm words, Republican sources said on Thursday.
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President Bush asked Congress on Monday to slash taxes by $1.9 trillion over the next decade, cementing his first-term tax cuts while changing the way health insurance is taxed.
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President Bush signed into law a fourth tax cut in less than four years, extending tax relief for married couples, parents and businesses during a well-timed ceremony in this battleground state.
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With lopsided margins in both houses, Congress gave President George W. Bush his fourth tax cut in four years, extending three popular middle-class tax breaks and reviving some expired business tax incentives just six weeks before the
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Congress is now poised to hand  President Bush an election-year tax cut victory after Senate  and House of Representatives negotiators on Wednesday night  agreed to extend popular tax breaks for children and couples  for five years.
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Just in time for the election, President Bush is going to one of the most contested states to sign his fourth tax cut in four years.
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Congress approved a $145.9-billion package of tax relief Thursday that extends three popular middle-class tax cuts, giving President George W. Bush his fourth major tax victory since taking office.
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One month before Election Day, President Bush sought Saturday to make sure Americans know he is signing into law a fourth tax cut in four years. On Monday in Iowa, Bush will sign legislation extending three popular middle-class tax breaks and reviving some expired business tax incentives.