Tyler Cowen posts this analysis over at Marginal Revolutions reflecting that the Bush Administration compares poorly with other administrations of the past 40 years in terms of reducing the amount of major governmental agency or department budgets. As Mr. Cowen notes:
George W. comes in tied for last with Clinton II. This is a highly imperfect proxy, but when you are 0 for 15 it is hard to blame measurement error alone.
As noted in here just the other day in regard to the issue of tax simplification, the Bush Administration’s inaction on these types of issues is, in my view, more likely to cause a loss in the upcoming election than anything that is likely to occur in the Middle East.
Bush’s record on Discretionary Spending
This will be the first in a multi-part series on Bush’s discretionary spending record. I’m going to begin by breaking down an article by Veronique de Rugy at the American Enterprise Institute. She looked at the spending records of a number of President…