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In April, a Republican National Committee spokesperson said the Republican Party’s 2012 platform would focus on the same policies pushed by former President George W. Bush, “just updated.” In case anyone needs a reminder, Bush’s policies included massive tax cuts that led to exploding deficits and debt and a weak decade of job growth, the attempted privatization of Social Security, and deregulation of the financial industry that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis.
Despite that record, the party’s nominee seems to be chasing an agenda that truly is “Bush updated.” Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s economic advisers include two former chairmen of Bush’s Council on Economic Advisers and a veteran of Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign. The policies favored by those advisers include even bigger tax cuts, more deregulation, and support for dismantling Social Security. ThinkProgress compiled a look at each of Romney’s five economic advisers and the policies they have supported in the past, as well as those they hope to implement in the future.
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