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Mark Davis Subject Files
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Originally Processed With FOIA(s):
FOIA Number:
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FOIA
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This is not a textual record. This is used as an
administrative marker by the George Bush Presidential
Library Staff.
Record Group/Collection:
George H.W. Bush Presidential Records
Collection/Office of Origin:
Speechwriting, White House Office of
Series:
Davis, Mark, Files
Subseries:
Subject File, 1989-1991
OA/ID Number:
13868
Folder ID Number:
13868-013
Folder Title:
Budget, 5/29/90
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Shelf:
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May 29, 1990
Memorandum
Re:
Setting the Agenda
There are two ways to look at most issues and policies:
either we are succeeding with our agenda, or the opposition is
succeeding with their agenda. Sometimes the agendas overlap, but
sometimes they do not:
Their Agenda
Our Agenda
Taxes:
Taxes:
increase
capital gains rate cut;
personal exemption increased
More spending
Spending restraint: Budget
reform: Balanced Budget
Amendment; Line Item Veto;
look at all spending,
including Amtrak, Davis-
Bacon, etc.
Civil Rights:
Civil Rights:
quotas
Commitment to equal
opportunity; includes anti-
credentialism
Education:
Education:
Increased spending;
Parental choice; increased
bureaucracy;
flexibility; vouchers;
Focus on inputs: e.g.,
Focus on outcomes, e.g.,
amount of spending
How US students compare to
other students, how much
they learn
Environment/Clean Air:
Environment/Clean Air:
command and control
Market-oriented policies,
e.g., emissions trading;
tree planting
Crime:
Crime:
increased spending,
death penalty; tough judges
gun control
Health Care:
Health Care:
Centralization, employer
Individual empowerment: Health
mandates
IRA's; Fitness/Prevention
-2-
Housing:
Housing:
Increased subsidies,
housing vouchers
construction of public
housing
Trade:
Trade:
"Managed" trade
Free trade: agreement with
(protectionism)
Mexico (include labor
mobility?)
Child Care:
Child Care:
increased spending for day
Tax credit for parents;
care centers; increased
range of options to parents,
regulation and bureaucracy
affordability, availability.
Long run: increase personal
exemption
Hatch Act:
Hatch Act:
repeal
preserve
Welfare:
Welfare:
Status quo with increased
Low Income Opportunity Board;
spending; no hope for
Kaus plan?
underclass
Working Poor:
Working Poor:
increase minimum wage
Earned Income Tax Credit
More spending on
Telecommuting
"infrastructure"
Campaign finance:
Campaign finance:
Public financing,
Enforce Beck prohibition
limit private spending;
against soft money; end the
frank, incumbency protection;
Look at ways to save consumers
billions -- sugar program,
Postal Service, etc.
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