After taking office in 2001, president george w. bush signed two tax bills that

Created a stimulus and cut taxes--the surplus that was created was given back to the tax payer through stimulus checks and taxes were cut in particular for upper classes.

Bush returned to economic policies of Reagan creating tax cuts for the upper-middle and upper class to create stimulus for jobs. The excess monies from the 1990s surplus was given back to the tax payer through stimulus checks.