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Jeb Bush presidential campaign, 2016/Budgets

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Jeb Bush suspended his presidential campaign on February 20, 2016.[1]


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Former presidential candidate
Jeb Bush
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Former governor of Florida
(1999-2007)
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  • Speaking at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in New Hampshire on October 14, 2015, Jeb Bush said he supported the government partnering with private sector leaders like SpaceX’s Elon Musk to develop our space program. He said, "I mean what's wrong with having big aspirational goals? It's not in the absence of taking care of the hungry or the poor. We're a big country. We're a generous country. The benefits of this are far more than people realize.”[2]
  • During Bush's eight years as governor, "Florida general fund spending increased from $18.0 billion to $28.2 billion during those eight years, or 57 percent. Total state spending increased from $45.6 billion to $66.1 billion, or 45 percent. (This is NASBO data from here and here). Over those eight years, Florida’s population grew 16 percent and the CPI, which measures inflation, grew 24 percent," according to the Cato Institute.[3]
  • In 2006, the Cato Institute gave Bush a fiscal grade of "C" for an "explosive growth in state spending, spurred largely by some big-spending schemes proposed by Bush himself, such as the grant of $310 million in taxpayer money to the Scripps Institute to lure it to Florida from La Jolla, California. Real per capita general fund spending has grown an annual average of 5 percent over the past two years, making Bush one of the biggest spending Republican governors in this report card."[4]

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  1. ↑ [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/21/us/politics/jeb-bush.html?_r=0 The New York Times, " Jeb Bush Bows Out of Campaign, Humbled and Outgunned," February 20, 2016]
  2. ↑ CNN Politics, "Jeb Bush: Newt Gingrich's moon colony idea was 'cool'," October 14, 2015
  3. ↑ Cato Institute, "Jeb Bush's Fiscal Record," April 9, 2014
  4. ↑ Cato Institute, "Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors: 2006," October 24, 2006
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