Freedom or Ruin

Today's conservatards want the shovel back so they can keep digging the hole.
Romney-Ryan are just the ones to do it too!

It was Tip O'neill who controlled dpending. He promised to cut it in return for giving Reagan the tax cuts he wanted, but then like all Dems, he broke that promise.

I did not argue that Reagan did not raise taxes (or thyat TEFRA was good by any means). I do not dispute facts that actually ARE facts. The FACT remains that he was a net tax cutter.

Hey sorry if the truth hurts, Seawolf.

Troll spew and twisted reasoning

Troll spew

Troll rowboat captain spews his nonsense as usual

Again the 21 Boat cuts to the chase!

You two clowns should get a room....if you don't like this country..get the hell out, try Cuba, you'd love it down there. You must not work, no sane person votes to hand over ever more of his hard earned income to foster ever more sloth ands stupidity.

Well Fetch he did sign TEFRA. In 1988, libertarian political writer Sheldon Richman described TEFRA as "the largest tax increase in American history." In 2003, former Reagan adviser Bruce Bartlett wrote in National Review that "TEFRA raised taxes by $37.5 billion per year", elaborating, "according to a recent Treasury Department study, TEFRA alone raised taxes by almost 1 percent of the gross domestic product, making it the largest peacetime tax increase in American history."

Hey Doc, he always said he regretted it and these were not broad based tax increases. Not good, but still.

Well I can see getting snookered once or twice but 11 times?

Why would we choose to believe such completely inaccurate delusions. Quite the contrary, federal revenues nearly tripled and the tax cuts nearly (albeit not quite) paid for themselves during his presidency (arguably they more than paid for themselves over a longer period - a matter of discussion among economists). That Congress passed a budget every year that was larger than he submitted is not subject to debate.

As for Second Asisstant Janitor Roy, the fact remains that on a net basis Reagan was still a tax cutter and the general prosperity resulting from those and his deregulatory policies lasted for nearly two decades.

That was the Democrat Congress.
They promised to cut spending for a tax raise and didn't. Reagan never trusted them after that.

He would have been primaried for breaking Grover's "pledge".

Don't forget Raygun's massive Keynesian style deficit spending. What a great guy, he started digging the hole that today's conservatards want to bury us in.

And how did rates net out after the lowering and raising, DoctorRoy?

You know just little enough to be dangerous. Which is Ransom's point, isn't it?