Next President to Face Pressure on Taxes
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At their national convention, Republicans were short on specifics on how to pay for an economic agenda in a second Bush administration. One reason is that President Bush could end up having to back a tax increase, just as his father did.
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Democratic presidential rivals called for higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans and on some corporations Thursday and said any thought of balancing the federal budget would have to wait.
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The list of major challenges confronting President Bush as he prepares to take the oath of office for the second time is exhausting.
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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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SECOND-TERM SQUEEZE: Serious pressures face President Bush at home and abroad as he prepares for his second term.
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President Bush will be confronted by  strong domestic and foreign policy challenges as he begins a  second term this week that will go a long way toward  determining his place in the pantheon of American presidents.
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The presidential campaign has brought back to the fore the vexing question of how much to tax high-income Americans.
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President Bush is not ruling out raising taxes on people who earn more than &#36;90,000 as a way to help fix Social Security's finances.
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The latest sign of trouble for the White House.
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The pharmaceutical industry is expected to face pressure to curb rising prescription-drug costs no matter which candidate wins next week's U.S. presidential election.
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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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With federal deficits already running amok, it is unclear how President Bush will pay for his second-term agenda, a potentially multitrillion-dollar smorgasbord that includes overhauling Social Security and revamping the tax system.
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Like a captivating novel, the 650-page tax act headed toward President Bush&#39;s desk will make you want to laugh, cry and scream.
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Newly re-elected President Bush faces a range of economic challenges including gaping deficits, soaring health care costs and conflicts over trade.
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Reforming the tax system is more politically risky and economically complex than the president let on during the campaign.
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The threat of growing protectionism  and higher taxes are the issues nearest and dearest to  investors as the U.S. presidential election gathers steam this  week with Tuesday's primary in New Hampshire.
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President Bush, under election-year pressure on the economy, said on Sunday that Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry&#39;s plan to raise taxes on the wealthy would hinder the creation of jobs.