Bush Wants to Raise Middle-Class Taxes?
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- The Kerry-Edwards campaign says George W. Bush -- a president who&#39;s made cutting taxes a priority -- wants to raise taxes on middle-class families.
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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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PORTSMOUTH, N.H.  - President Bush suggested in an  interview published on Wednesday he may be open to raising the  cap on Social Security taxes paid by high-income earners, but  told a crowd in New Hampshire he would reject an increase in  the payroll tax rate.
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No one in the Republican presidential race talks more about middle-class tax relief than Mitt Romney. The twist: His view of who fits into the middle class is more expansive than most.
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President Bush on Thursday ruled out raising taxes to finance the centerpiece of his second-term domestic agenda: a Social Security overhaul to help the system survive an impending wave of retiring baby boomers.
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TEMPE, Ariz.  - In their third and final debate,  President Bush attacked Democrat John Kerry as a "far left"  senator who would raise taxes while Kerry took aim at job  losses under Bush's watch and said the middle class had lost  ground because of his policies.
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President George W. Bush told  lawmakers on Thursday he wants tax rebates for families and  breaks for businesses in a rescue plan for the struggling U.S.  economy that could total up to $150 billion.
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A tax rebate is at the center of a plan to stimulate a flagging economy.
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President Bush says Democratic challenger Senator John Kerry would have to raise taxes to pay for health care reforms that Mr. Bush says would lower the quality of care.
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WASHINGTON - House-Senate negotiators late Wednesday approved extending three popular middle class tax cuts and Republicans, anxious to get the bill to President Bush, predicted swift passage in both chambers of Congress.    The conference panel approved the bill after overriding objections from Democrats who said the tax cuts should be paid for by tax increases in other areas, limiting its impact on the government soaring budget deficit...
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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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Democratic challenger John Kerry said on Wednesday President Bush had failed America&#39;s middle class as he renewed his focus on the economy less than a week before voters go to the polls.
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WASHINGTON - Legislation extending three popular middle-class tax cuts for the rest of the decade sailed through Congress by lopsided votes in both the House and Senate, giving President Bush a major legislative victory on his signature economic issue, tax relief.    Many Democrats complained during debate Thursday that the 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 scoffed on Saturday at Democrat John Kerry&#39;s claim he has had only one position on Iraq and would not raise taxes on middle-class Americans as Bush sought
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Trying to energize the electorate in heavily Republican western Iowa, President Bush hammered home the message Saturday that voters must keep rival John Kerry out of the White House because the Democrat will raise taxes on the middle class.
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Incoming prime minister Gordon Brown hints at a tax raise.
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WASHINGTON -- Democrats in Congress are preparing a long-awaited plan that seeks to deliver a major tax break to millions of middle-class families -- paid for by raising taxes on upper-income earners.