Three Excellent Ideas from Jeb Bush: Liberate Two-Earner Couples and Liberate the Elderly
November 13, 2015
News Article
Jeb Bush has been taking a beating lately—from the talking heads on TV and radio, from some of his own backers and from the mainstream media. But all these folks are talking about the governor’s performance as a debater. What’s getting ignored is far more important: the innovative policies he would pursue as president.
You would expect the Republican candidates to agree on many things. But Bush has introduced two novel economic ideas into the policy arena. One would liberate every two-earner couple in America from the onerous provisions of an anti-marriage tax code. The other could liberate seniors from some of the anti-work provisions of Social Security. In both cases, the economy as a whole would benefit from the skills, talents and productive ability of millions of people who are not now contributing as much as they could and would, with better economic incentives.
A third idea would liberate seniors as patients in a medical marketplace that is far too dominated by non-market rules and regualtions.
