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Taxes

• October 25 -- Bush Out to Break with The Great Society
David Rosenbaum and Robin Toner insist Bush is out to break with the Great Society: "Mr. Bush would, in important ways, break with the underpinnings of the New Deal and the Great Society that have directed the government's domestic policies for generations."

• October 21 -- "Why Taxes Have to Go Up"
Credit the Times editorial page for candor.

• October 15 -- Fact-Checking Bush's Tax Cuts from a Liberal Angle
David Rosenbaum's economic fact-check purports to hit both Kerry and Bush for misleading statements, but as usual Bush comes off worse.

• October 11 -- More Fact-Checking of Bush on the Trail
Elisabeth Bumiller helps Kerry out by fact-checking Bush on the stump: "In truth, Mr. Kerry essentially voted for one large tax increase, the Clinton tax bill of 1993, which mostly imposed additional income taxes on the wealthy but did include an increase in taxes on Social Security benefits for middle-income retirees. Mr. Kerry also supports middle-class tax breaks, but voted against them in 2001 as part of an overall tax bill that he opposed."

• October 8 -- Bushonomics: Ambitious, Divisive, or a "Hoax"?
Richard Stevenson on Bush's economic philosophy: "His assertion that reducing the top income-tax rate is primarily an effort to help small businesses has been challenged by many economists, who say the White House has exaggerated how much tax reductions in the top bracket flow to small-business owners. 'You can fairly say this is a political hoax,' said [anti-Bush author] Kevin Phillips."

• October 5 -- Taking the High (Tax) Road to Energy Efficiency
Jad Mouawad: "The United States, land of gas-guzzling S.U.V.'s and air-conditioned McMansions, might do well to turn to the country some Americans love to hate for lessons on how to curb its reliance on imported oil: France."

• September 20 -- "Tendentious" Fact-Checking at the Times
A "Fact Check" feature on the campaign defends (no surprise) John Kerry. And the online version includes an amusing gaffe never meant for publication.

• August 24 -- Celebrating CBO's Chief for Making the Democrats' Day
The Times celebrates the CBO chief for giving Bush heartburn: "The White House tax cuts are skewed to the wealthiest. Spoken like a…Republican?"

• July 12 -- No Hypocrisy Among Wealthy "Populist" Democrats?
Michael Moss and Kate Zernike dip their toes lightly into the matter of hypocrisy on the wealthy Democratic ticket--but quickly draw back.

• June 23 -- Gassing Up For Higher Taxes
Timothy Egan pumps up prospects for an increase in the federal gas tax: "Gas prices finally headed down last week, and may have peaked for the year, the Energy Department reported….the pattern over the last 30 years suggests that this is bad news for anyone who believes that Americans, the world's biggest oil consumers, can ever curb their energy consumption."

• June 11 -- Chewing Over the Reagan Legacy
R.W. Apple praises Reagan's tax-raising "pragmatism" while despairing of his "severe and continuing cutbacks in government services to the poor and vulnerable."

• June 8 -- Using and Abusing Reagan's Memory, Part II
Paul Krugman finds something nice to say about Ronald Reagan.

• May 21 -- Pushing Tax Credits for Non-Taxpayers
Edmund Andrews files a report on bills to expand the child tax credit, and wonders why people making $10,500 a year "would still get nothing at all"--despite the fact they pay little or no federal taxes in the first place.

• March 26 -- A Tale of Two Tax Plans
A proposal from the Democrat candidate is a "response to widespread anxiety," while the Republican plan "would increase the nation's already swollen federal budget deficit."

• February 4 -- Bush's "Threats To Our Way of Life"
Nicholas Kristof claims Bush fiscal policy poses the real threat to the American way of life and applauds the fiscal conservatism of Bill Clinton.

• January 22 -- Gov. Pataki's High-Spending Love-In
James McKinley Jr. sends a valentine to New York Gov. George Pataki: "This year, the governor stressed togetherness and optimism in his 55-minute budget address. Gone was his hard-line stance against raising taxes or spending."

• January 21 -- Loving Higher Taxes in Virginia
James Dao puts his usual chirpy, optimistic spin on Democratic politicians in a profile of Virginia Gov. Mark Warner's push for a tax hike, while letting the tax-raising Democrat call his plan "conservative."

• October 20 -- Times Editor Explains Tax Policy to Alabamans
Thank goodness Adam Cohen is around to tell Alabamans how to vote!

• October 14 -- Bush's Forbidden Love?
Paul Krugman outlines his paranoid view of Republicans: "They've decided that the way to win is to give Grover Norquist and the Heritage Foundation and John Ashcroft whatever they want." Also: "Can you imagine the Bush family allowing some member to marry a liberal Democrat?"

• September 29 -- California Needs Higher Taxes, Part 1
Charlie LeDuff characterizes the campaign of Arnold Schwarzenegger (now leading in the California governor’s race) as a feel-good exercise that ignores the need for tax hikes: “Promising deliverance without sacrifice and a balanced budget without tax increases…”

• September 29 -- California Needs Higher Taxes, Part 2
Dean Murphy is another Times reporter suggesting Schwarzenegger would have to raise taxes as governor, claiming the “state's formidable obstacles to raising taxes” have “tied [Gray] Davis's hands in keeping the state fiscally afloat. On the bright side: a Schwarzenegger win could mean a tax hike.

• August 12 -- But Is It a “Vast” Right-Wing Cabal?
Times Magazine writer Matt Bai again praises a moderate Republican senator fighting “extremist” and “fringe” elements to his right and talks of a “right-wing cabal that administration officials would consult on a regular basis.”

• July 7 -- Democracy Can Wait --We’ve Got Taxes to Raise
A Saturday editorial doesn’t let the expansion of voting rights get in the way of supporting a tax hike.

• June 26 -- The Times’ Tax Collector
Tax reporter David Cay Johnston is always willing to give the IRS a boost.

• April 29 -- France’s “Fiscal Discipline”
“Europe has imposed on itself a fiscal discipline so tight that it leaves little room for economic pump priming,” writes James Tagliabue. “The U.S. is back to cutting taxes and running up record deficits.” “Fiscal discipline” among European welfare states?

• April 25 -- Adam Clymer: No “Major-League” Economists?
Bush’s favorite reporter says the president can’t find respected economists who think “tax cuts and bigger deficits are the elixir the economy needs.”

• April 24 -- Bitter Conservatives Attack…Colin Powell
The Times defends moderate Colin Powell and accuses former Speaker Newt Gingrich of a “savage attack against [George Bush Sr.] for raising taxes.” 

• April 24 -- Bitter Conservatives Attack…Senate Moderates
David Firestone paints conservatives as sore, frustrated losers: “Bitter about the success of Republican moderates in whittling down President Bush's tax cuts, Republican conservatives are planning to exact a political price for what they consider to be economic heresy.”

• April 24 -- Gov. Pataki Taxes Times Patience
The Times advice to New York Gov. Pataki: Win the public’s approval by raising their taxes.

• April 14 -- You Can Trust Him…To Keep Your Taxes High
When the New York Times salutes a Republican senator as “a man of his word” not once but twice in one piece, alert readers know to watch their wallets.

• April 8 -- No Shelter From Bias
Not even architecture provides a shelter against the Times liberal bias. Herbert Muschamp spices up his critique of a Miami structure with some free-lance Florida tax policy: “There is no income tax. In consequence, there is no safety net.”