Jeb Bush in Slate.com
On Education:
Advocate for Common Core education standards
Bush has taken policy stances against his party's grass roots on the hot button issues of immigration and education. Bush is also an advocate for Common Core education standards, which advocates like Bill Gates say are designed to make the
United States more competitive in the world. Grass-roots conservatives are passionately opposed to the standards, arguing that they remove local control of education and dumb down teaching of crucial subjects like math.
Source: John Dickerson on Slate.com, "Hard on the GOP"
Mar 31, 2014
On Immigration:
Advocate for residency for illegal immigrants
Bush has taken policy stances against his party's grass roots on the hot button issues of immigration and education. Bush is an advocate for pathways to citizenship and residency for illegal immigrants, positions that
House Republican leaders didn't even want to debate in this election year for fear they would cause too big a rift in the ranks.
Source: John Dickerson on Slate.com, "Hard on the GOP"
Mar 31, 2014
On Tax Reform:
No pledge on taxes; trade-offs on taxes means leadership
On domestic issues, the Bush family is synonymous among some conservatives with tax increases and federal spending. Perhaps the greatest sin in the modern conservative movement is George H. W. Bush's 1990 budget deal where he traded tax increases for
budget savings. Jeb Bush has cited his father's compromise as the epitome of presidential leadership. In his positions on fiscal policy, Jeb Bush has given comfort to the suspicious. When asked about the hypothetical trade-off posited during a 2012
GOP debate, where no GOP candidate would accept a dollar of tax increases in exchange for 10 dollars in spending reductions, Jeb Bush took a different view. "If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that
we're going to have $10 in spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement--put me in, coach," he said at the time. He has also criticized Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge that few GOP lawmakers refuse to sign.
Source: John Dickerson on Slate.com, "Hard on the GOP"
Mar 31, 2014
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