Fiscal cliff hysteria is manipulated by self-serving deficit hawks
Dean Baker
Obama talks tough over fiscal cliff and refuses to buckle on GOP tax demands
October 2012
GDP figures show economic growth – but a pall of gloom hangs over America
Dominic Rushe: Soon we'll all stop talking about the election – and what's waiting on the other side is the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts
July 2012
Ana Marie Cox column
Obama's Bush tax cut proposal hits Republican roadblock
Ana Marie Cox
Barack Obama to ask Congress for one-year extension on Bush-era tax cuts
June 2012
OECD says US economy is recovering but income inequality problematic
Organisation of worldwide economists backs Obama plan to end Bush-era tax cuts as it presents report on still-fragile recovery
March 2012
Watch out for George Osborne's 'dynamic scoring' wheeze
Jonny Medland
Jonny Medland: With plan A in tatters the chancellor is looking to a Bush-era tax-cut tactic that would hurt Britain's finances for a generation
November 2011
The Bush-era tax cuts that sank the supercommittee
Debate rages over tax cuts that proved to be the kryptonite to the supercommittee set up to tackle the US's $15tn deficit
August 2011
The right word
The Right Word: No deal on the Bush tax cuts
Sadhbh Walshe
Sadhbh Walshe: Despite a consensus that Republicans got the better of the debt ceiling deal, the pundits' anxiety is high about the Bush tax cuts
July 2011
Short-term debt deal poses severe political risks for Obama
Kicking the US deficit can down the road will solve the problem now, but could ruin Obama's second term and leave Bush's tax cuts for the rich untouched
December 2010
Barack Obama gives way to Republicans over Bush tax cuts
Allies say president 'blackmailed' into extending tax cut for wealthier Americans which may cost $4tn in lost revenue
Michael Tomasky's blog
Letting the Bush tax cuts expire
Michael Tomasky: If only we had the Hollywood version of President Obama, we might hear him say, 'The hell with these tax cuts for millionaires'
The party of the rich, by the rich, for the rich
Paul Harris
Paul Harris: Never have Republican values been so brazenly apparent than in holding the unemployed to ransom for the Bush tax cuts
November 2010
Barack Obama imposes public sector pay freeze
Michael Tomasky's blog
Tax cuts and growth and the two parties
The right word
The Right Word: healthcare and tax cuts
Sadhbh Walshe
Michael Tomasky's blog
The looming Bush tax cuts
September 2010
Michael Tomasky's blog
The seemingly unanswerable small-business question
Michael Tomasky's blog
Line in the sand on taxes
August 2010
Michael Tomasky's blog
The next tax war
Repealing Bush's tax cuts for the rich is a matter of correcting both policy and history.
