Bruce Bartlett

Bruce Reeves Bartlett (born October 11, 1951) is an American historian and author. He served as a

In January 1977, Bartlett went to work for U.S. Congressman Jack Kemp (R-New York) as a staff economist.^{[citation needed]} Bartlett spent much of his time on tax issues, helping to draft the Kemp-Roth tax bill, which ultimately formed the basis of Ronald Reagan's 1981 tax cut. Bartlett's book, Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action, appeared in 1981 (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers). He also co-edited the book The Supply-Side Solution (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers, 1983).

In 1978, Bartlett went to work for

In late 1984, Bartlett became vice president of Polyconomics, a New Jersey-based consulting company founded by Jude Wanniski, a former editorial writer with The Wall Street Journal, that advised Wall Street clients on economic and investment policy. Bartlett left in 1985 to become a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in tax policy and was involved in the debate around the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

George H. W. Bush administration

In 1987, Bartlett became a senior policy analyst in the White House Office of Policy Development, then headed by Gary Bauer. He left in 1988 to become the deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department, where he served until the end of the George H. W. Bush administration.

Afterwards, Bartlett worked briefly at the

Since 1995, he has written a

In 2005, the National Center for Policy Analysis fired Bartlett for his criticism of President George W. Bush.^[3]

In 2006, he published Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy, which is critical of the George W. Bush administration's economic policies as departing from traditional conservative principles. He described Bush and

In a 2013 article for The American Conservative, Bartlett explained that after conducting research for the book, he "came to the annoying conclusion that Keynes had been 100 percent right in the 1930s", that "we needed Keynesian policies again", and that "no one has been more correct in his analysis and prescriptions for the economy's problems than Paul Krugman", a prominent Keynesian economist.^[9]

Criticism of "Fair Tax" proposal

In an August 2007 The Wall Street Journal op-ed, Bartlett criticized the FairTax proposal as misleading and unlikely to simplify taxpaying.^[10] Bartlett was especially critical of what he states are FairTax's accounting tricks in rate calculation and proponent claims that "real investment spending would rise 76%" if their plan were adopted.^[10] Supporters of the FairTax proposal accused him of falsely conflating their campaign with a national sales tax proposal by an organization affiliated with the Church of Scientology.^[11][12][13] In a September 2007 article for The New Republic, Bartlett stated that the FairTax proposal was "nearly identical" to a Scientologist proposal.^[14]

Personal life

Bartlett lives in Great Falls, Virginia. He is a member of the American Economic Association and the Committee for Monetary Research and Education.^[2]

Works

Books

• Bruce R. Bartlett, The Keynesian Revolution Revisited, Committee for Monetary Research and Education, 1977.
• Bruce R. Bartlett, Cover-Up: The Politics of Pearl Harbor, 1941–1946, Arlington House Productions (1978)
  ISBN 978-0-87000-423-0
• Bruce R. Bartlett, Reagonomics: Supply-side economics in action, Arlington House (1981)
  ISBN 978-0-517-54817-2
• Bruce R. Bartlett and
  ISBN 978-0-333-37364-4
• Bruce R. Bartlett, Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy,
  ISBN 978-0-385-51827-7
• Bruce R. Bartlett, Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past,
  ISBN 978-0-230-61099-6
• Bruce R. Bartlett, The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward,
  ISBN 978-0-230-61587-8
• Bruce R. Bartlett, The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform – Why We Need It and What It Will Take,
  ISBN 978-1-4516-4619-1
• Bruce R. Bartlett, The Truth Matters: A Citizen's Guide to Separating Facts from Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks,
  ISBN 978-0-399-58116-8

• The First Year: A Mandate for Leadership Report, Heritage Foundation, 1982.
• Supply Side Economics, Aletheia Books, 1982.
• Agenda '83: A Mandate for Leadership Report, Heritage Foundation, 1983.
• The Federal Debt: On-Budget, Off-Budget, and Contingent Liabilities: A Staff Study,
  U.S. G.P.O.
  , 1983.
• The Industrial Policy Debate, Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1984.
• Beyond the Status Quo, Cato Institute, 1985.
• Articles in
  Modern Age, and to newspapers. Contributing editor of Libertarian Review
  .

External links

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• Capital Gains and Games Archived October 10, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Bruce Bartlett's blog "on Washington, Wall Street and Everything in Between"
• Column archive at The Daily Beast
• Column archive at The Fiscal Times