UPDATE 1-Bush touts tax cuts, aide acknowledges &#39;soft patch&#39;
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US President George W. Bush said on Saturday his tax cuts were working to lift growth but a senior aide acknowledged that the economy hit a &quot;soft patch&quot; over the last six or eight weeks.
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One day after claiming a second term, President Bush gathered reporters to discuss his priorities for the next four years. According to the President, his domestic goals include making his tax cuts permanent
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President Bush&#39;s aides are preparing the groundwork to move ahead with his plans to overhaul the tax code and Social Security, as cabinet members await signals
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President George W. Bush said Americans are ``expecting bipartisan effort and results&#39;&#39; on changing Social Security, the tax code and other issues from his victorious campaign against Senator John Kerry.
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Having generated record federal deficits with tax cuts in his first term, George W. Bush has promised that &quot;fiscal restraint&quot; is now in order.
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President Bush combined two fundraising trips for threatened GOP incumbents Monday with a tour of a family-run manufacturing business he pointed to as proof that his tax cuts are helping the economy.
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WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Through thick and thin, President Bush has consistently extolled the virtues of lowering taxes to make the economy stronger.
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Wholesale changes to the tax code that just weeks ago were identified as a Bush administration goal by the end of 2005 are being pushed back for at least another year.
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US President George W Bush has outlined plans for his next four years in office. The White House claimed Mr Bush&#39;s re-election gave him a second-term mandate for his agenda to keep taxes low and revamp social security.
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President Bush, who credits three years of tax relief programs with helping strengthen the slow economy, said Saturday he would sign into law the Working Families Tax Relief Act to preserve tax cuts.
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WASHINGTON - With lopsided margins in both houses, Congress gave President 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 election.    Many Democrats complained during the debate Thursday that majority Republicans who control Congress should have offset the lost revenue to keep the nation's soaring deficits from getting worse...
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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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Throughout a two-day conference on the economy, President Bush and his allies extolled the virtues of his tax cuts and &quot;pro-growth&quot; policies, which they said have lifted the nation from
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WASHINGTON Sept. 23, 2004 - Legislation to extend several popular middle class tax cuts cleared a House-Senate conference and could be on President Bush&#39;s desk within days, handing him a major legislative
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Democratic presidential contender John Kerry suggested on David Letterman's Late Night show some further tax cuts that President George W. Bush could push for, including &quot;no estate tax for families with at least two US presidents.&quot;
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U.S. News & World Report - One issue the next president will have to deal with is whether to extend the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts that reduced tax rates on income and investments and expanded the child tax credit. U.S. News caught up with Republican presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani last Saturday after he had just finished speaking at a &quot;tax summit&quot; campaign event in Manchester, N.H. There, Giuliani offered his case for making the Bush cuts permanent, killing the estate tax (or &quot;death tax,&quot; as he puts it), indexing the alternative minimum tax to inflation, and lowering corporate  ...
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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.