Just some FACTS to help you understand why we are betrayed by the GOP establishment. They keep adulating Ronald Reagan as if he were a real conservative... The Cato Institute did a study called: "Assessing the Reagan Years," which showed that under Reagan, federal spending actually increased from 23 percent to 24 percent of gross national product, while payroll tax increases resulted in a net tax increase for most Americans. These are the facts and they are indisputable.