Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 2008
Abstract
The article examines the Bush Administration's tax cutting agenda, focusing on recent attempts to repeal the estate tax and to eliminate the shareholder-level income tax on corporate dividends. In each of these two seemingly disparate episodes, the Administration used dubious economic claims and populist rhetoric to promote tax cuts without considering revenue costs or distributional effects. The legislative outcomes, however, were driven largely by budget constraints and interest group politics. In conclusion, the article suggests that the Administration's tax cutting agenda is best understood in terms of politics and ideology rather than conventional tax policy.
Recommended Citation
Karen C. Burke & Grayson M.P. McCouch, Turning Slogans Into Tax Policy, 27 Va. Tax Rev. 747 (2008), available at http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/559