Bryan D. Jones
Autor von Agendas and Instability in American Politics
Werke von Bryan D. Jones
The Politics of Bad Ideas: The Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America (2007) — Autor — 12 Exemplare
Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Public Policy (1994) 4 Exemplare
The Politics of Information: Problem Definition and the Course of Public Policy in America (2015) 4 Exemplare
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• The “miracle” variant of supply-side economics— that tax cuts pay for themselves— is not supported by data.
• The “starve the beast” principle of tax cuts— that cutting taxes without cutting spending and running up the deficit will prompt voters to shrink the size of government— doesn’t work. Deficit spending postpones worrying about the budget for enough of the electorate that there aren’t serious repercussions.
• Raising taxes makes more people identify as fiscal conservatives. Lowering taxes encourages people to demand more from government.
• There are no simple party-based solutions. Neither unified Democratic control of the White House and Congress, nor unified Republican control, nor “divided government” is a recipe for fiscal prudence.
They don’t have any snappy fixes for the problem. Their prescription is the policy equivalent of “eat your vegetables”: check your numbers against reality and don’t follow your theories in spite of contrary evidence. (For example, they suggest that the Office of Management and Budget should be separated into two parts, with a budget director appointed by the President, ratified by the Senate, who cannot be fired by the President, whose responsibility is to produce nonpartisan analysis.) They are highly displeased with the George W Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress for allowing the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 to lapse in 2002 and ignoring analysis in favor of faith in supply-side theories, but draw a clear distinction between them and the fiscal conservative wing of the party, who they hold as the best hope for restoring fiscal sanity; they only assert that the Democrats couldn’t do any worse than the Republicans. Ultimately, the only solution is for everyone involved in government— politicians, think tanks, activists, and the voters— to regain “a healthy respect for sound finances and honest numbers”.… (mehr)