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In a time of war, never before has the President of the United States proposed tax cuts. Intuitively, all Presidents have understood that it would not make sense to undermine our country’s ability to pay for a war by reducing federal funds. How then do we explain the unprecedented tax policy of George W. Bush over the last two years?
My focus in this paper is on this President’s approach to tax policy as a microcosm of his approach to the policy formulation process in general. In this paper I argue that this President’s tax policy is based on campaign slogans and partisan ideology as opposed to the pragmatism of the traditional economic policy formulation process. The President’s tax policy is a clear example of this public policy paradigm shift. President Bush campaigned in 2000 on the rhetoric that the federal government was guilty of overcharging taxpayers, and he would collect a refund on behalf of the American taxpayers if elected. He used the 1998-2001 budget surpluses and the long-term surplus projections as empirical proof of this claim. |
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Name: Southwestern Political Science Association
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| Culver, John. "The Politics of Policy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, Fairmont Hotel, Mar 23, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p89003_index.html> |
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| Culver, J. , 2005-03-23 "The Politics of Policy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, Fairmont Hotel Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p89003_index.html |
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Abstract: In a time of war, never before has the President of the United States proposed tax cuts. Intuitively, all Presidents have understood that it would not make sense to undermine our country’s ability to pay for a war by reducing federal funds. How then do we explain the unprecedented tax policy of George W. Bush over the last two years?
My focus in this paper is on this President’s approach to tax policy as a microcosm of his approach to the policy formulation process in general. In this paper I argue that this President’s tax policy is based on campaign slogans and partisan ideology as opposed to the pragmatism of the traditional economic policy formulation process. The President’s tax policy is a clear example of this public policy paradigm shift. President Bush campaigned in 2000 on the rhetoric that the federal government was guilty of overcharging taxpayers, and he would collect a refund on behalf of the American taxpayers if elected. He used the 1998-2001 budget surpluses and the long-term surplus projections as empirical proof of this claim. |
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| The Politics of Policy By John Culver Abstract In a time of war never before has the President of the United States proposed tax cuts. Intuitively all Presidents have understood that it would not make sense to undermine our country's ability to pay for a war by reducing federal funds. How then do we explain the unprecedented tax policy of George W. Bush over the last two years? My focus in this paper is on this President's approach to |
| 36 restored to the public policy process. This is more difficult than it seems however. The Bush administration favors putting ideological loyalists in top administrative positions over policy experts. Ultimately the only way to solve this problem lies in the hands of voters. Voters must become more engaged in the political process looking past moral platitudes and party rhetoric and choosing candidates based on their qualifications and actions. Further tax cut research would involve looking at how the tax |
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