Stock prices will plummet on the end of the Bush tax cuts for capital gains and cash dividends.
Bush also cut the capital gains tax rate by 25%.
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The BBC's Jon Leyne in Washington says the US administration has been careful to play down the significance of an Iraqi offer it views with deep scepticism, and President George W Bush has left the capital for the weekend without commenting on it.
Kicking off his campaign today in the state's capital city, Bush admitted his early timing was unusual but saw no reason to wait once he'd made his decision.
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From the clear appeal of a stock that pays you for holding it at a time of puny interest rates, to the likelihood of higher taxes on those payouts due to the expiration of the Bush tax cuts, the capital companies deploy to shareholders in the form of dividends has become something of an 800-pound gorilla.
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Congress should make permanent the 2003 Bush tax cuts on income and capital gains.
The Bush tax cuts on income and capital gains are set to expire next year.
The Treasury and the Bush Administration have urged banks getting capital under this plan to go out and lend.
Mr Bush has devoted almost no political capital to the cause, despite his claims to be an ardent believer in free trade.
Conservatives assumed that they had a mandate from the American people, and President Bush assumed that he had political capital to burn.
George W. Bush vowed to spend his political capital after winning in 2004, but a move to privatize Social Security quickly collapsed.
Mr Bush had hoped to spend his capital from cutting taxes on partly privatising Social Security and reorganising America's armed forces (see article).
Kerry would also punish risk-takers by increasing the capital gains levy and would reduce the supply of capital by rescinding President Bush's dividend tax reductions.
Just as during the Carter years, during the Bush years productive businesses suffered a capital deficit as money flowed into the dead money sector that is housing.
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Mr Bush's somewhat cavalier attitude to capital punishment is unlikely to be probed by Mr Gore, who is a supporter.
President Bush today was in Tbilisi, the capital of the former Soviet republic of Georgia, where he delivered a speech before a cheering crowd.
For this purpose, the Bush team should create a new interagency capital markets working group, perhaps calling it the Committee on Foreign Financing and Borrowing (COFFAB).
Having emerged victorious from his election campaign, President George Bush has pledged to spend his political capital bringing about a Palestinian state in the next four years.
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Moreover Mr Bush is rapidly running out of political capital.
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Bush said it's in the interest of home builders and real estate agents to encourage such a program, Bush said, urging lenders to make capital available and calling for tax credits.
For example, when former President George W. Bush lowered the maximum long-term capital gains tax rate to 15% in 2003, all gains generated prior to May 6, 2003 were subject to a 20% rate, with all gains derived after that date taxed at the lower 15% maximum.
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Simple: If Bush thinks he's got little political capital left now, just wait until later in the year.
If Congress were to let the Bush cuts expire in December the long term capital gain rate for most people would be 20% in 2011.
Since the Bush tax cuts of 2003 reduced both the capital gains and dividend rates to 15%, the top 400 have been paying an effective income tax rate of only around 18% of AGI.
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Obama and Buffett are blowing so much smoke over the 15% rate on capital gains and on dividends adopted in the Bush years.
Mr Bush has been far more willing to spend his political capital on tax cuts than on faith-based initiatives (which have been allowed to wither on the vine).
And there will be screaming, including some inside the Bush administration, against anything that supposedly impedes on keeping capital markets open to any firms that meet proper investment standards.
Russian forces pushed troops from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia out of a key town 50 miles from the Georgian capital Monday, prompting a plea from President Bush that Russia accept Georgia's move toward a peace agreement.
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