While proponents of the Bush tax cuts argued that the.

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9 rowsAug 24, Comparing the size of these tax cuts with the federal budget shows that the Kennedy’s tax cuts.

InReagan’s tax cuts represented percent of the budget. Each of Bush’s tax cuts are smaller than Reagan’s- EGTRRA ( percent), JCWA ( percent) and the Tax Cut( percent). When the Bush tax cuts are combined ( percent), they would be larger than Reagan’s tax cut, yet smaller than Kennedy’s tax cut. But, of course, the Bush cuts were quite small compared to the Reagan cuts. I have not found any estimate of the cost of the Best saw for removing bushes cuts, but I can tell you that he reduced top rate from 70% to 50% in and eventually to 28% in So, he cut the top tax rate more than half.

Clinton raised the top rate to in Apr 26, President Ronald Reagan further lowered the top marginal rate to 50% from 70%​and phased in a 23% average cut across individual tax rates. Feb 28, The Bush tax cuts were two tax code changes that President George W.

Bush authorized during his first term. Congress enacted tax cuts to families in and investors in They were supposed to expire at the end of Instead, Congress extended them for two more years, and many of the tax provisions remain in effect- and continue to affect the economy- to this day.

Jul 11, Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, And Job Creation Act Ofwhich extended the Bush personal income tax cuts for two years through American Taxpayer Relief Act Of (the “fiscal cliff deal”) which made permanent most, but not all, of the Bush tax cuts. Obama Expansion of Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit. May 26, No tax cut that has significant marginal rate cuts, as the Bush tax cuts did, will cost the Treasury its full “static” score.

Static in this sense means that people don’t change their behavior when tax rates drop or rise: if a 40% tax rate raisesbillion, then a 20% tax rate would raisebillion.

This is wrong because people do change their behavior when faced with such starkly lower tax rates.