Bush Tax Policies

News

• A Tax Cut By Any Other Name - 01/03/2013
• New York Times Asks How Obama Plan Really Affects the Top Two Percent - 12/07/2012
• No Dancing on Grover's Grave - 11/29/2012
• Top Ten Tax Moments from the VP Debate - 10/12/2012
• For more articles on the Bush Tax Policies from our Tax Justice Digest, click here.

Reports

• Fact Sheet: How Many People Are Rich Enough to Lose Part of the Bush Tax Cuts Under Obama's Proposal? - 06/20/2012
• The Bush Tax Cuts: Obama's Approach vs. Congressional GOP's Approach, State-by-State - 06/20/2012
• Presentation: Tax and Revenue Decisions Facing Congress and the President - 03/24/2012
• National Priorities Project & CTJ: The Cost of the Bush Tax Cuts for the Rich - 10/14/2011
• Both Sides of Debt Ceiling Talks Propose Increasing the Budget Deficit - 07/14/2011
• Another Decade of Bush Tax Cuts Will Cost More than Twice as Much as the First Decade - 06/07/2011
• The Bush Tax Cuts After Ten Years: State Fact Sheets - 06/02/2011
• Compromise Tax Cut Plan Tilts Heavily in Favor of the Well-Off - 12/07/2010
• Married Couples with Incomes Between $250,000 and $300,000 Would Lose Only 1% of Their Bush Tax Cuts under Obama Plan versus GOP Plan - 12/03/2010
• The U.S. Chamber's Fight to Protect Its Richest Corporate CEOs' Wallets - 11/30/2010
• The Bush Tax Cuts and Small Business - 11/12/2010
• Will Taxes Cause Former Bush Adviser Greg Mankiw to Work Less? - 10/22/2010
• State-by-State Estate Tax Figures: Number of Deaths Resulting in Estate Tax Liability Continues to Drop - 10/20/2010
• Group of House Democrats Support Tax Preferences for Wealthy Investor Class that President Reagan Ended - 09/28/2010
• Most House Democrats Supporting Tax Cuts for the Rich Have Lower than Average Percentage of High-Income Households in Their Districts - 09/21/2010
• Republican Approach to Extending the Bush Tax Cuts Would Result in Huge Break for Richest 1% and Higher Taxes for Middle Class, Compared to Obama's Approach - 09/17/2010
• Myths and Facts about Tax Cuts - 09/10/2010
• CTJ's Online Tax Calculator - 09/01/2010
• Allowing the Bush Dividends Tax Cut to Expire for the Richest 2% Will Not Harm Seniors - 07/22/2010
• Holtz-Eakin Peddles Myths about the Bush Tax Cuts - 07/16/2010
• Extending Bush Tax Cuts for High-Income "Small Business" Owners Would Further Enrich the Wealthiest Taxpayers While Doing Nothing to Create Jobs - 05/13/2010
• CTJ's Legislative Agenda for 2010 - 02/25/2010
• President Obama's FY2011 Budget: Federal Government Should Collect at Least as Much Revenue as Obama Proposes - 02/10/2010
• The Bush Tax Cuts Cost Two and a Half Times as Much as the House Democrats' Health Care Proposal - 09/08/2009
• Time to Stop Subsidizing Wall Street: Eliminate the Tax Loopholes for Capital Gains and Dividends - 10/01/2008
• Right-Wing Spin Machine Uses Misleading Figures to Argue that the Tax Code Is More Progressive Under Bush - 07/31/2008
• Capital Gains and Dividends Tax Cuts Offer Almost No Benefit to Middle-Income Americans and Add to the Nation's Fiscal Problems - 05/13/2008
• President Bush Has Made Tax Day Easier for the Rich - at the Expense of Everyone Else - 04/14/2008
• House Budget Plan Deals with Tax Policy in a More Responsible Way than the Senate Version - 03/20/2008
• Bush's Proposed Budget Cuts Show the Price of the Bush Tax Cuts - 02/08/2008
• The Wall Street Journal Ignores Facts in Its Crusade for High-Income Tax Cuts - 02/04/2008
• Most Taxpayers Will Get Less than a Third of the Tax Cut Touted by Bush in His State of the Union Address - 01/30/2008
• Who's Rich? CTJ Analyzes Presidential Candidates' Definitions of "Rich" - 01/16/2008
• Congress Should Stop Subsidizing Millionaires Through the Tax Code - 11/07/2007
• Carried Interest and Real Estate - 11/07/2007
• Congressman Rangel's Tax Bill Would Make the Tax Code Simpler & Fairer -- and the Changes Are All Paid For - 11/02/2007
• President's Reckless Tax and Fiscal Policies Force Congress to Raise the Debt Limit - Again - 09/13/2007
• New IRS Data Pegs Cost of Special Low Tax Rates on Capital Gains and Dividends at $92 Billion in 2005 Alone: Three Quarters Goes to Richest 0.6% - 08/10/2007
• Myths and Facts about Private Equity Fund Managers -- and the Tax Loophole They Enjoy - 07/19/2007
• Bush Tax Cuts Reduced President's Taxes by 14 Percent, Cheney's by 21 Percent - 05/03/2007
• United States Remains One of the Least Taxed Industrial Countries - 04/26/2007
• Recently Passed Budget Resolutions Do Not Increase Taxes Despite Accusations of "Biggest Tax Increase in History" - 04/02/2007
• The Bush Tax Cuts So Far and the President's Proposed New Tax Cuts: Testimony of Bob McIntyre - 03/06/2007
• The Bush Tax Cuts Enacted Through 2006: The Latest Data - 03/02/2007
• CTJ's Advice to the New Congress - 01/10/2007
• CTJ's Congressional Tax Report Card: See How Your Senators and Representatives Voted on the Big Issues of Tax Fairness and Responsible Fiscal Policy - 10/16/2006
• UPDATED: CTJ's Bush Tax Cut Scorecard: Summary of Bush Tax Changes From 2001 to 2010 - 10/13/2006
• The Bush Tax Cuts: Is Your State Better Off? - 10/10/2006
• 99 Percent of Americans are Net Losers Under Bush Tax and Spending Policies - 06/29/2006
• Congressional Republicans Defend Tax Cuts With Fuzzy Math - 05/18/2006
• Conference Committee Tax Plan: Another Tax Cut for the Rich - 05/12/2006
• Bush Tax Cuts Saved President $26,000, Cheney $1.1 Million in 2005 - 04/18/2006
• Tax Cuts on Capital Gains and Dividends Doubled Bush Income Tax Cuts for the Wealthiest in 2003 - 04/05/2006
• Bush Implies All of His Tax Cuts Were Failures Until 2003 - 03/14/2006
• CBO Projects $8.5 Trillion in Borrowing over Next Decade Under Bush Policies - 01/26/2006
• Bush Funding 25% of Non-Social Security Spending This Year with Borrowed Money - 01/23/2006
• New CBO Report Shows Bleak Fiscal Forecast - 12/22/2005
• Senate and House Tax Reconciliation Bills Compared - 12/06/2005
• Two New 2006 Tax Cuts Benefit Only Wealthiest Few - 11/21/2005
• Bushes & Cheneys Got $110,000 in Combined Tax Cuts in 2004 - 04/15/2005
• Corporate Income Taxes in the Bush Years - 09/22/2004
• New "Tax Day" Report: Overall Tax Rates Have Flattened Sharply Under Bush - 04/13/2004
• How do the Bush Tax Cuts Affect YOUR State? - 11/19/2003
• Final Tax Plan Tilts Even More Toward Richest - 06/05/2003
• Senate Action Makes Bad Tax Plan Much Worse - 05/16/2003
• Senate GOP Tax Plan Targets Tax Aid to Best-off 10 Percent - 05/13/2003
• Most of House GOP Tax Plan Would Benefit Best-Off Five Percent - 05/06/2003
• Revised Estimate Pegs Latest Bush Tax Cut Plan at $2.0 Trillion Over Decade - 03/18/2003
• Bush Administration Pegs Its New Tax Cut Plan at $1.8 Trillion Over Decade - 02/03/2003
• Bush 2003 Tax Plan a Big Fat Zero for a Third of Nation's Taxpayers - 01/27/2003
• Most of Bush's Proposed New 2003 Tax Cuts Would Go to Top 10% - 01/07/2003
• White House Reveals Nation's Biggest Problem: Rich not Rich Enough - 12/16/2002
• Year-by-Year Analysis of the Bush Tax Cuts Shows Growing Tilt To the Very Rich - 06/12/2002
• Most of Post-2002 Bush Tax Cuts Will Go to Top 1% - 04/18/2002
• $212 Billion House GOP "Stimulus" Tax Bill Would Almost Double Bush Tax Cuts Over Next Three Years - 10/15/2001
• Bush's Misguided "Stimulus" Plan - 10/09/2001
• Administration Proposal to Accelerate Income Tax Cuts Would Overwhelmingly Benefit the Wealthy - 10/05/2001
• Freeze the Cuts - 09/18/2001
• Bush Energy Bill Passed by House Showers Tax Breaks on Energy Industry - 08/17/2001
• Joint Committee on Taxation Agrees - 06/19/2001
• Post-2001 Tax Cuts Offer Little to Most Americans - 06/18/2001
• The Bush Tax Plan, State by State - 06/13/2001
• State-by-State Impact of Agreed-Upon Conference Bill Analyzed - 06/01/2001
• Who Will Receive the 2001 Tax Rebate? - 06/01/2001
• Final Version of Bush Tax Plan Keeps High-End Tax Cuts, Adds to Long-Term Cost - 05/26/2001
• Senate Finance Committee-passed version of Bush tax plan analyzed - 05/16/2001
• The Effects of the Bush Tax Cuts on State Tax Revenues - 05/02/2001
• Treasury Press Release Confirms CTJ Estimates of Bush Plan's Impact - But Leaves out Critical Details - 04/25/2001
• Senate Democratic Alternative Plan Analyzed - 04/16/2001
• Most States Shortchanged by Bush Tax Plan - 04/11/2001
• New Estimates Show Cost of Bush Tax Plan Continues to Rise - 03/08/2001
• House GOP's Version of Second Part of Bush Income Tax Cuts Analyzed - 03/08/2001
• CTJ Analysis of Ways and Means Tax Proposals - 03/02/2001
• CTJ Analysis of Bush Plan Updated to 2001 Levels - 02/27/2001
• Proposed Tax Giveaways for Wealthiest 1% Would Pay for Medicare Prescription Coverage for Seniors - 02/15/2001
• Bush Tax Cuts Would Save George and Laura Almost $100,000 a Year - 02/12/2001
• When Would the Bush Tax Plan Take Effect? - 02/12/2001
• The Bush Tax Plan and "Average" Families - 02/08/2001
• Revised Analysis of Bush Plan - 08/31/2000
• Bush Tax Plan Takes Giant Bite Out of Social Security - 02/04/2000
• Income Taxes on Working Families with Modest Incomes Under the George W. Bush Tax Plan - 01/01/2000