who benefited most from president Bush tax cuts?
367484
Well That wouldn't be ME!!!! The middle class is more and more becoming extinct, and I fear this includes me now that I have officially fallen below poverty level. The "tax cuts" again benefit those that need them the least...the upper echelon!
940874
The first one to come to mind is the first president Bush.  If I remember right he went from above 90% after the Gulf war to under 30% a year later.
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Total Cost of Tax Break: $76.5 billion from 2005-2014\n\nIn this provision, America’s largest energy companies—among the most profitable in the U.S. economy—would succeed in reclassifying energy production as a manufactured good in order to qualify for potentially tens of billions of dollars in new tax deductions. The manufacturing tax deduction has previously only been available to traditional manufacturing industries. The amount of the tax deduction is 3% of a company’s production income in 2005 and 2006; rising to 6% in 2007-2009, and 9% after 2009.\n\nThe total cost of this tax deduction, $76.5 billion from 2005-2014, includes the value of the tax deduction for energy companies and other industries, including movie studios, real estate developers and engineering and architectural services associated with real estate development. It is a safe assumption that energy companies—due to their size within the U.S. economy—will be the largest recipient.\n\nSince 2001, electric power, natural gas and oil corporations have contributed $73 million to federal candidates, with three-quarters of that total going to Republicans. Halliburton is the largest oil field services provider and provides services to Chevron. Bush Sr. was a director of Halliburton. Dick Cheney was Halliburton's CEO. Chevron is the #1 importer of Iraqi oil. Members of the Bush administration planned to oust Saddam and establish control in Iraq since long before the Iraq war. Bush started a war in Iraq. War brings profit to defense contractors. Bush Sr is a director of one of the world's largest defense contractors.    See the circle of greed and profit? These facts show there is a serious conflict of interest with the relationships between the Bush family, the Bush Administration, ChevronTexaco, Halliburton, the Carlyle Group and members of PNAC. The Bush family and friends have been profiting from war and will continue to profit greatly through continued services contracts in Iraq and the controlled flow of Iraqi oil.
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He has increased foreign aid to Africa to fight aids and genocide.  He has gotten his tax bill into law.  He has increased spending on environmental studies.  He has appointed more minorities and women to higher positions than any president in history.\nHe has kept unemployment low even through a stock crash.\nGot medicare reform bill passed.\nNow the question of how much his policy has any real effect on those issues is yet to be seen; nonetheless, he has at the very least ACTED on the issues rather than do the DC norm of just TALKING about them.\n\nAs far as those who say the tax bill is only for the wealthy shame on you for not knowing simple economics and ignorance to current tax laws.  If one person pays $1000 in tax and another pays $10000 and they both get the same amount of government services, who should get more back if there is a refund?  If you hold to FAIRNESS and cut a straight percentage of 17% one gets 170 the other 1700 is that fair?  YES
891348
They serve the most who pay the most taxes.
1153776
Bush (President) is doing a good job--for the super-rich corporate interests. The little people are only here, to provide wealth to the super-greedy, some of whom own the private Federal Reserve.  The tax-collecting division of the Fed, the IRS, shakes down the little people, to provide tax payments (not even covering the interest) that go toward whittling down the National Debt. (Your taxes do not pay for government.)
551971
the good ol FICA... Federal Income Tax.\ngimme dat.
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Bush budget cuts food program for pregnant women and infants.  According to the Los Angeles Times, “Another program new to Bush’s hit list is the Agriculture Department's commodity supplemental food program, which provides food packages to low-income elderly people, pregnant women and infants.” (2/6/06)  One in five children in America live in relative poverty yet President Bush proposes cutting this program that provides food packages for mothers, children, and seniors.  President Bush’s budget would also weaken the Women, Infant, and Children nutrition program\n\nBush budget cuts funding for children.  From health care to child care, President Bush’s budget underserves America’s children:\n\n    * Cuts funding for children’s health care.  “Mr. Bush will propose eliminating programs to treat people with traumatic brain injuries and to improve emergency medical services for children.” (New York Times, 2/5/06)\n    * Cuts to children’s hospitals.  Free-standing children’s hospitals depend upon the federal government to support the training of health professionals.  But the President has proposed to cut the Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education (GME) program by $198 million – from $297 million in Fiscal Year 2006 to $99 million in Fiscal Year 2007. \n    * Cuts to child care assistance.  The Bush budget also calls for $1.03 billion in child care funding cuts over the next five years, denying more than 400,000 children from receiving child care in 2011 as compared to 2005 levels. (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)  \n\nBush budget proposes the largest education cut in the history of our country. Tuition and fees have increased 57 percent for a public four-year college and 32 percent for a private four-year college since 2000.  Despite this growing concern for students and their families, the President’s budget freezes the maximum Pell Grant award at $4,050, the same level as 2003.  Failure to increase Pell Grants is weakening the value of these grants:  in 1975, a Pell Grant covered 80 percent of the cost of a public four-year college education while today it covers only about 40 percent.  The President’s budget also proposes to eliminate the Perkins loan program, which provides low-interest, fixed-rate loans for students with financial need, and plans to recall the federal portion of revolving funds collected by participating institutions.  Furthermore, the President’s budget would eliminate the Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership (LEAP) program, which provides a federal match to states for need-based grant and work-study assistance. \n\nBush budget eliminates Social Security death benefits.  The Bush budget would eliminate the $255 death benefit provided by Social Security to the families of those who die.  While modest, this benefit is important to many families who need assistance in order to bury their loved ones with dignity.Bush budget cuts job training programs.  At a time of uncertainty for so many American workers, the Bush budget proposes to cut funding for critical job training programs.  These cuts could not come at a worse time for working mothers, young women starting out their careers, and their families.  For example, the Bush budget would cut funding for:\n\n    * Job training and employment services by $695 million (eight percent);\n    * Dislocated worker employment and training programs by $223 million (17 percent);\n    * Adult employment and training activities by $145 million (17 percent);\n    * Youth training programs by $100 million (11 percent); and\n    * The Job Corps program, an education and job training program to help young people start their careers, by $55 million (over three percent) and rescind $75 million of un-obligated Job Corps construction funds. This is just some of the buget cuts that are happening with Bush!!
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Amazingly, President Bush has managed, with his batty attack on Iraq, to drain the treasury of the credit balance Clinton left it with and turn it into a huge deficit.  Maybe a drop in the dollar's value will give a temporary boost to exports, but that won't go anywhere to offset the tragedy.  Bill got blown, but George has blown America : her finances AND her moral credibility.  I don't know which is worse.  I just don't want to think about it.
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I used Turbo Tax for the web for two years and this year I used H&R Block's TaxCut. In my opinion, Turbo Tax for the web was far superior.
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A.\n\nThe national government does most of that with the taxes and then redistributes with things like Social Security and welfare.
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hands down - clinton.\n\nI believe Clinton actually did his job in service of the American people (even with the whole cigar thing). The international community loved him on top of it!\n\nWhile Bush on the other hand is in the service of his investors. Who can really say that Bush (1&2) were actually serving the people.\n\nWhen Clinton lied, nobody died.
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This is kind of a lopp sided question as it is always easier to complain about whatever we currently have.  However in this case the answer would be George W. Bush.  I have read some of the answers that you have gotten and some are based on complete misconceptions.  Yes our economy was better under the Clinton Administration, however that was due to the fact that the things that Reagan did for the economy were finally bearing fruit.  By the end of the Clinton years we were back into recession that plagued the early Bush Administration.  Clinton campaigned in 1992 promising National Health Insurance, however in his 8 years as President was not even able to get it to the floor of Congress.  Clinton had Congress's approval for the same reasons as Bush did in 1998 to go to war with Iraq, yet he never followed through with it.  If we blame Bush for making mistakes in his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress and the President made the same mistake in 1998.  What seems to be a common thing for both the American Public as well as our Politicians is a short attention span and a short memory.  In retrospect most Americans now think of Nixon as being a good President as well as a great statesman, yet in 1974 he was the most hated man in history moving Hitler to number 2 for the first time in over thirty years.
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I'll agree with you that Bush isn't a conservative and lost his veto pen when he needed it badly but you are WAY off base giving clinton any credit for helping this country.\n\nThe republican majority was taken off course when Gingrich left office. He was the one responsible for getting this government back on track with spending.\n\nThe only advantage that this spending has given us is it took those talking points away from the democrats that they have been running on for years. They had promised seniors a drug plan the last 3 election cycles and never delivered.... Bush did. That could have been his political goal... to shut the liars up on the democrat side....
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Hardly anyone.\nEXCEPT: The NRA, the drug companies, the oil companies, Cheney's company Halliburton, and all multi-millionaires who pay very few taxes thanks to Bush.
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Mexico, and ultimately the United States (we got land later) benefited. Spain lost out.
972847
actually, they won't cut a whole lot... unless they cut spending for the war.  their campaign was one of "create more social programs to spend the extra money that we will be taxing"