Barack Obama on Taxes

DemocratIL

Taxes55 votes · 97.4/100 consistent

Raise revenueCut taxes

119 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Taxes. 55 of them counted toward the score above: 41 toward “Raise revenue” and 14 toward “Cut taxes”.

The other 64 did not count: 47 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 17 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
2005-11-17	To provide an additional $500,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2006 through 2010, to be used for readjustment counseling, related mental health services, and treatment and rehabilitative services for veterans with mental illness, post-traumatic stress disorder, or substance use disorder.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide extended and additional protection to Medicare beneficiaries who enroll for the Medicare prescription drug benefit during 2006.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a temporary windfall profit tax on crude oil and to use the proceeds of the tax collected to provide a nonrefundable tax credit of $100 for every personal exemption claimed for taxable years beginning in 2005.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Raise revenue
2005-11-17	To fully reinstate the pay-as-you-go requirement through 2010.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To impose a temporary windfall profits tax on crude oil and to use the proceeds of the tax collected to fund programs under the Low-Income Energy Assistance Act of 1981 through a trust fund.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Raise revenue
2005-11-17	To eliminate child poverty.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To express the sense of the Senate concerning the provision of health care for children before providing tax cuts for the wealthy.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To express the sense of the Senate.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To clarify treatment of outside income and expenses in the Senate.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To improve the Federal Trade Commission's ability to protect consumers from price-gouging during energy emergencies, and for other purposes.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-11-17	To reinstate for millionaires a top individual income tax rate of 39.6 percent, the pre-May 2003 rates of tax on capital gains and dividends, and to repeal the reduction and termination of the phase out of personal exemptions and overall limitation on itemized deductions, until the Federal budget deficit is eliminated.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Raise revenue
2005-11-17	To repeal certain tax benefits relating to oil and gas wells intangible drilling and development costs.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Raise revenue
2005-11-17	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a temporary windfall profit tax on crude oil and to rebate the tax collected back to the American consumer, and for other purposes.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Raise revenue
2005-11-17	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax benefits for areas affected by Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma and to extend certain expiring provisions, and for other purposes.S. 2020 · 109th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Cut taxes
2005-11-16	A bill to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reform the pension funding rules, and for other purposes.S. 1783 · 109th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-03-17	To repeal the 1993 tax increase on Social Security benefits.S.Con.Res. 18 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Raise revenue
2005-03-17	To express the sense of the Senate that the tax cuts assumed in the budget resolution should include the repeal of the 1993 increase in the income tax on Social Security benefits.S.Con.Res. 18 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-03-17	To establish a reserve fund in the event that legislation is passed to provide a 50 percent tax credit to employers that continue to pay the salaries of Guard and Reserve employees who have been called to active duty.S.Con.Res. 18 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Cut taxes
2005-03-14	To restore funding for education programs that are cut and reduce debt by closing corporate tax loopholes.S.Con.Res. 18 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Raise revenue

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Raise revenue / Cut taxes axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.