Jeb Bush

Jeb Bush

Jeb Bush was born in Midland, Texas on February 11, 1953. He graduated from the University Of Texas and moved to florida where he worked as a real estate agent and broker. While in Florida, Jeb Bush held his first political position as the states secretary of commerce. He quickly rose through the ranks and in 1998 Bush became Governor of the Florida after losing the 1994 election to Lawton Chiles [1]. As Governor he is remembered for cutting taxes, adding jobs and growing Florida's economy[2].

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Tax Reform

• • Fact check: Affordable Care Act increases taxes, but the high class is getting a majority of the impact of these tax increases. Subsidies also cushion the impact of the taxes.
    • Tax increases passed by Supreme Court would lead to an estimated cost to taxpayers over 804.6 billion dollars over the next decade [3][4][5]
• Business and corporations
  • Tax Proposal: Lower taxes on small business and big businesses, simplified tax code that is easier on middle class and families[6][7]
  • reduce personal income tax brackets down to three brackets: 28%, 25%, 10% like the Reagan administration’s second tax reform
  • fact check: Reagan’s 2nd tax reform wasn’t like this; it was broken into 4 groups (10%, 28%, 33%, 28%), making a tax “bubble”. Taxpayers after a certain income level paid a flat 28% tax rate [8][9]
  • cut down corporate tax rate from 35% to 20% and change it to territorial tax system (tax only on earnings made in US)[10]
  • 2% cap of filer’s gross income on total tax deductions
  • double size of standard deduction
  • double income tax credit for childless workers
  • eliminate carried interest loophole
  • estimate increasing number of Americans that don’t pay tax by 15 million, bringing the number of filers with zero taxes from 40% up to 50%
  • claims this will help lower and middle class, but this will benefit high earners instead[11]
  • plan estimated to cost up to $3.4 trillion over the next decade without growth
  • businesses deduct new capital investments== Jobs And Business Policy ==

Immigration

Jeb Bush plans to strengthen the enforcement of Immigration laws, both internally and at the border through six proposals.

1. A forward-leaning Border Patrol with the flexibility to deploy resources to meet threats.
2. implementing new surveillance technologies such as drones sensors and radars
3. improving the border infrastructure to allow easier access to border patrol agents
4. Reduce the incentive for illegal immigration by decreasing the likelihood that they will be employed through an improved E-Verify system
5. Identify and send home the people who are entering the United States and overstaying their visas or otherwise violating the terms of their admission.
6. Punish sanctuary cities which are impairing the federal government from enforcing immigration laws, by withholding federal law enforcement funds.

For those already within the United States Jeb Bush intends too instate a rigorous path towards citizenship which would require a background check, paying fines, paying taxes, learning English, obtaining a provisional work permit and a job all while not receiving government assistance.