Bush tax cuts, the Glossary
The phrase Bush tax cuts refers to changes to the United States tax code passed originally during the presidency of George W. Bush and extended during the presidency of Barack Obama, through.[1]
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81 relations: Affordable Care Act, Alternative minimum tax, American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, Barack Obama, Bill Frist, CBS News, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, CNN, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Research Service, Debt-to-GDP ratio, Democratic Party (United States), Deutsche Bank, Dick Cheney, Earl Pomeroy, Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, Economic Policy Institute, Economic policy of the Barack Obama administration, Economic policy of the George W. Bush administration, Economists' statement opposing the Bush tax cuts, Eric Cantor, Faegre Drinker, Firedoglake, Income distribution, Internal Revenue Code, Jack Lew, Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, Joe Biden, John Boehner, Lame duck (politics), Mark Zandi, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, National Archives and Records Administration, National debt of the United States, Office of Management and Budget, Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, Paul Krugman, Peter R. Orszag, Presidency of Barack Obama, Presidency of George W. Bush, President of the United States, Reconciliation (United States Congress), Redistribution of income and wealth, Republican Party (United States), Rush Limbaugh, Simon Johnson (economist), Sunset provision, Tax cut, Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005, ... Expand index (31 more) »
Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and colloquially as Obamacare, is a landmark U.S. federal statute enacted by the 111th United States Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. Bush tax cuts and Affordable Care Act are presidency of Barack Obama.
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Alternative minimum tax
The alternative minimum tax (AMT) is a tax imposed by the United States federal government in addition to the regular income tax for certain individuals, estates, and trusts.
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American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA) was enacted and passed by the United States Congress on January 1, 2013, and was signed into law by US President Barack Obama the next day. Bush tax cuts and American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 are presidency of Barack Obama and United States federal taxation legislation.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
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Bill Frist
William Harrison Frist (born February 22, 1952) is an American physician, businessman, conservationist and policymaker who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1995 to 2007.
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CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is a progressive American think tank that analyzes the impact of federal and state government budget policies.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
Congressional Budget Office
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is a federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government that provides budget and economic information to Congress.
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Congressional Research Service
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is a public policy research institute of the United States Congress.
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Debt-to-GDP ratio
In economics, the debt-to-GDP ratio is the ratio between a country's government debt (measured in units of currency) and its gross domestic product (GDP) (measured in units of currency per year).
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank AG is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange.
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Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce Cheney (born January 30, 1941) is an American retired politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under President George W. Bush.
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Earl Pomeroy
Earl Ralph Pomeroy III (born September 2, 1952) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for from 1993 to 2011.
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Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001
The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 was a major piece of tax legislation passed by the 107th United States Congress and signed by President George W. Bush. Bush tax cuts and Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 are United States federal taxation legislation.
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Economic Policy Institute
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit American think tank based in Washington, D.C., that carries out economic research and analyzes the economic impact of policies and proposals.
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Economic policy of the Barack Obama administration
The economic policy of the Barack Obama administration, or in its colloquial portmanteau form "Obamanomics", was characterized by moderate tax increases on higher income Americans designed to fund health care reform, reduce the federal budget deficit, and decrease income inequality.
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Economic policy of the George W. Bush administration
The economic policy and legacy of the George W. Bush administration was characterized by significant income tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, the implementation of Medicare Part D in 2003, increased military spending for two wars, a housing bubble that contributed to the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007–2008, and the Great Recession that followed.
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Economists' statement opposing the Bush tax cuts
The Economists' statement opposing the Bush tax cuts was a statement signed by roughly 450 economists, including ten of the twenty-four American Nobel Prize laureates alive at the time, in February 2003 who urged the U.S. President George W. Bush not to enact the 2003 tax cuts; seeking and sought to gather public support for the position.
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Eric Cantor
Eric Ivan Cantor (born June 6, 1963) is an American lawyer and former politician who represented Virginia's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2014.
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Faegre Drinker
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath, also known as Faegre Drinker, is a full-service international law firm and one of the 100 largest law firms in the United States.
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Firedoglake
Firedoglake (abbreviated as FDL) was an American collaborative blog that described itself as a "leading progressive news site, online community, and action organization".
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Income distribution
In economics, income distribution covers how a country's total GDP is distributed amongst its population.
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Internal Revenue Code
The Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (IRC), is the domestic portion of federal statutory tax law in the United States. Bush tax cuts and Internal Revenue Code are United States federal taxation legislation.
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Jack Lew
Jacob Joseph Lew (born August 29, 1955) is an American attorney and diplomat serving as the United States ambassador to Israel.
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Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003
The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 ("JGTRRA"), was passed by the United States Congress on May 23, 2003, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on May 28, 2003. Bush tax cuts and Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 are United States federal taxation legislation.
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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.
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John Boehner
John Andrew Boehner (born, 1949) is a retired American politician who served as the 53rd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015.
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Lame duck (politics)
In politics, a lame duck or outgoing politician is an elected official whose successor has already been elected or will be soon.
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Mark Zandi
Mark M. Zandi (born 1959) is an American economist who is the chief economist of Moody's Analytics, where he directs economic research.
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Mitch McConnell
Addison Mitchell McConnell III (born February 20, 1942) is an American politician and retired attorney who has been serving as senate minority leader since 2021 and the senior United States senator from Kentucky since 1985, the longest serving senator in his state's history.
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Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and lawyer, and the junior United States senator from Utah since 2019.
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National Archives and Records Administration
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records.
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National debt of the United States
The national debt of the United States is the total national debt owed by the federal government of the United States to Treasury security holders.
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Office of Management and Budget
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP).
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Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA-90) is a United States statute enacted pursuant to the budget reconciliation process to reduce the United States federal budget deficit. Bush tax cuts and Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 are United States federal taxation legislation.
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Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28, 1953) is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a columnist for The New York Times.
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Peter R. Orszag
Peter Richard Orszag (born December 16, 1968) is an American business executive and former government official.
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Presidency of Barack Obama
Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017.
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Presidency of George W. Bush
George W. Bush's tenure as the 43rd president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2001, and ended on January 20, 2009.
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Reconciliation (United States Congress)
Budget reconciliation is a special parliamentary procedure of the United States Congress set up to expedite the passage of certain federal budget legislation in the Senate.
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Redistribution of income and wealth
Redistribution of income and wealth is the transfer of income and wealth (including physical property) from some individuals to others through a social mechanism such as taxation, welfare, public services, land reform, monetary policies, confiscation, divorce or tort law.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Rush Limbaugh
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (January 12, 1951 – February 17, 2021) was an American conservative political commentator who was the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, which first aired in 1984 and was nationally syndicated on AM and FM radio stations from 1988 until his death in 2021.
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Simon Johnson (economist)
Simon H. Johnson (born January 16, 1963) is a British American economist.
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Sunset provision
In public policy, a sunset provision or sunset clause is a measure within a statute, regulation or other law that provides for the law to cease to be effective after a specified date, unless further legislative action is taken to extend it.
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Tax cut
A tax cut represents a decrease in the amount of money taken from taxpayers to go towards government revenue.
Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005
The Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 (or TIPRA) is an American law, which was enacted on May 17, 2006. Bush tax cuts and Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 are United States federal taxation legislation.
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Tax Policy Center
The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, typically shortened to the Tax Policy Center (TPC), is a nonpartisan think tank based in Washington D.C., United States.
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Tax Reform Act of 1986
The Tax Reform Act of 1986 (TRA) was passed by the 99th United States Congress and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on October 22, 1986. Bush tax cuts and Tax Reform Act of 1986 are United States federal taxation legislation.
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The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010, also known as the 2010 Tax Relief Act, was passed by the United States Congress on December 16, 2010, and signed into law by President Barack Obama on December 17, 2010. Bush tax cuts and Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 are presidency of Barack Obama and United States federal taxation legislation.
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Taxation in the United States
The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels.
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Tea Party movement
The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009.
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The Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation, sometimes referred to simply as "Heritage", is an activist American conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1973, it took a leading role in the conservative movement in the 1980s during the presidency of Ronald Reagan, whose policies were taken from Heritage Foundation studies, including its Mandate for Leadership.
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The National Law Review
The National Law Review is an American law journal, daily legal news website and legal analysis content-aggregating database.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Pew Charitable Trusts is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO), founded in 1948.
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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is an American daily newspaper based in Seattle, Washington.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Timothy Geithner
Timothy Franz Geithner (born August 18, 1961) is an American former central banker who served as the 75th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013.
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Trickle-down economics
Trickle-down economics is a pejorative term used to refer to economic policies that disproportionately favor the upper tier of the economic spectrum, comprising wealthy individuals and large corporations.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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United States Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation
The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) is a Committee of the U.S. Congress established under the Internal Revenue Code at.
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United States fiscal cliff
The United States fiscal cliff refers to the combined effect of several previously-enacted laws that came into effect simultaneously in January 2013, increasing taxes and decreasing spending.
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United States House Committee on Ways and Means
The Committee on Ways and Means is the chief tax-writing committee of the United States House of Representatives. Bush tax cuts and United States House Committee on Ways and Means are United States federal taxation legislation.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.
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United States Secretary of the Treasury
The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.
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University of Tennessee
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (or The University of Tennessee; UT; UT Knoxville; or colloquially UTK or Tennessee) is a public land-grant research university in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.
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Whitehouse.gov
whitehouse.gov (also simply known as wh.gov) is the official website of the White House and is managed by the Office of Digital Strategy.
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William G. Gale
William G. "Bill" Gale is the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy and the former vice president and director of the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution.
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111th United States Congress
The 111th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government from January 3, 2009, until January 3, 2011.
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2010 United States elections
The 2010 United States elections were held on Tuesday, November 2, 2010, in the middle of Democratic President Barack Obama's first term.
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2010 United States House of Representatives elections
The 2010 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 2, 2010, as part of the 2010 midterm elections during President Barack Obama's first term in office.
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2010 United States Senate elections
The 2010 United States Senate elections were held on November 2, 2010, from among the United States Senate's 100 seats.
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2012 Republican Party presidential primaries
Voters of the Republican Party elected state delegations to the 2012 Republican National Convention in presidential primaries.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_tax_cuts
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