Summary: Buck Wild E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Political Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 19

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The must-read summary of Stephen A. Slivinski's book: “Buck Wild: How Republicans Blew the Bank and Became the Party of Big Government”.

This complete summary of "Buck Wild" by Stephen A. Slivinski, a renowned American economist, presents his argument that the Republican Party has become more fiscally irresponsible in office than the Democrats, and have adopted principles that betray the very foundation of the party and threaten the future of America.

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To learn more, read "Buck Wild" and discover how a party that once embraced fiscal conservatism changed once they were in office.

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Book Presentation: Buck Wild by Stephen A. Slivinski

Book Abstract

Buck Wild is Slivinski’s critical analysis of the Republican Party and how its abandonment of limited government principles betrays the very foundation of the party and threatens the future of the country. Slivinski believes that what used to be one of the biggest reasons voters supported the party – less government and more individual freedom – no longer exists.

The book is written as a historical review of change within the Republican Party and reveals how and why Republicans, not Democrats, have become the biggest spenders in Washington, abandoned the principles that put them in power after such a long drought in Congress, betrayed taxpayers and fiscal conservatives and planted the seeds for the undoing of the party.

About the Author

Stephen Slivinksi is director of budget studies at the Cato Institute. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, Newsday, the Washington Times and National Review Online. He appears as a guest on Fox News, CNN, CNBC and MSNBC. He is the author of Cato’s Fiscal Policy Report Card on America’s Government, an influential biennial report on tax and budget politics in the states.

Summary of Buck Wild(Stephen A. Slivinski)

The Fight for Limited Government

In May 2004, a small band of Republican Congressmen met to discuss the fiscal profligacy that characterized the modern GOP. The Republican Study Committee was formed in 1973 by conservatives in the House who wanted to declare their independence from fiscally irresponsible President Nixon. At that time, they met in ornate rooms in the Capitol building or the Speaker’s office. In May 2004, they met in a basement like a band of insurgents.

This is what it means to be a fiscal conservative in Congress these days, alone against the President and most of the Republican Congress who have embraced Big Government and expanded the welfare state beyond the dreams of even the most starry-eyed liberal Democrat.