He proposed eliminating entire government agencies and pushed a tax-cut plan that was considered radical.
He also discussed his tax-cut plan unveiled this week, which he said would stimulate the economy.
Obama likes to link McCain's tax-cut plan to the Bush administration's tax breaks for wealthier Americans.
George W. Bush would have to rethink the wisdom of placing his tax-cut plan centre-stage.
One of the president's main arguments for his tax-cut plan was the parlous state of the American economy.
John Breaux, D-Louisiana, to draft a compromise tax-cut plan that could get votes from both sides of the aisle.
Republicans, in turn, criticize the President's plan that his tax cut plan would benefit 97 percent of small businesses.
Bush has argued that the faltering economy would benefit from his tax-cut plan.
The source of the current argument is the tax-cut plan itself, and the somewhat bizarre way in which it was implemented.
In 2009 as the auto market was diving globally, Goodyear withdrew the job-cut plan and shortly afterward began negotiations with Quincy, Ill.
His tax-cut plan may score points with the conservative faithful, but it represents a significant departure from Bill Clinton's deficit-first economic strategy.
The GOP's successful San Diego convention gave Dole and his running mate Jack Kemp a much-needed bounce in the polls, and Dole's tax cut plan appeared to helping too.
Last month, around 450 economists, including ten Nobel laureates, openly criticised the tax-cut plan: in response, the White House quickly marshalled support from economists who took a different view.
They have been encouraged by opposition to Mr Bush's tax-cut plan from some unlikely quarters, most notably from Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, who recently reiterated his doubts.
Despite polls indicating tax cuts are not a top priority for Americans, the lawmakers claim they found nothing but support for their tax cut plan once they explained it to their constituents.
And as BBC News Online's North America business reporter David Schepp explains, the battle this year pits a new president and his tax-cut plan against a Congress steeped in eight years of fiscal responsibility .
But there has also been some fiscal easing this year, first from President George Bush's tax-cut plan, which included tax rebates sent to taxpayers over the summer, and then from the extra spending approved by Congress in response to the war on terrorism.
Obama countered that both he and McCain want to cut taxes, but that his plan would cut taxes for "95 percent of American families, " more than McCain's plan.
The firm scored each country by subtracting the percentage of companies that said they plan to cut back on workers from the percentage that said they plan to add them.
That plan cut taxes for small businesses and for 95 percent of working Americans.
This is the one tax cut in the plan that is unprincipled, because there is no good reason to treat taxpayers above those thresholds differently than taxpayers below those thresholds.
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Taken together with the small business tax cut and lending plan we passed through Congress last week, these steps will help spur jobs in the short run, and strengthen our economy for the long run.
By contrast, if AMT rates are also trimmed by about one-fifth, to 21 percent and 23 percent, many of these households would enjoy the full tax cut but the plan would lose more revenue than if the AMT rates were left alone.
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But any cut in the plan would drive up the already high cost of the stealthy strike fighter in a way that might undermine political support, a fact not lost on Boeing marketers charged with keeping their company in the fighter business.
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In January, Honda's decision to cut 800 jobs at its Swindon plant in the UK was soon followed by Renault's plan to cut 7, 500 jobs - 14% of its workforce.
The Gingrich plan would cut taxes for everyone and raise them for no one.
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And half the firms surveyed plan to cut staffing levels in the next few months.
That implies the government is slightly ahead of its plan to cut the structural deficit.
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