Posted on 08/24/2011 6:28:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sounds like someone needs a lesson in gross versus net.
Were taxes lower or higher after his term in office from when he first came in?
This is like saying he cut $100 but added in four $1 increases and accusing him of a spender.
What about signing one of the biggest amnesty bills in modern history?
Got taken by the rats...3 dollars in cuts for every dollar of tax increases...hell Reagan started a twenty year boom....and rebuilt the military and beat the Russians not to bad for an old man..did more work in one day than Obama has done in 2.5 years..
This is journalism?? Uh...no...it’s crap. The tax decrease this cretin barely mentions dropped the tax rate from 70 to 28 per cent. Compare that to the incidental taxes he increased and he still comes off as a major tax cutter.
No matter how you try to sully Reagan, whichever RINO you try to put a ribbon on still smells like a pig.
Here’s a good rule of thumb.
If you’ve got to deconstruct Reagan to make your guy look good, find another guy.
bump.
[ (He signed into law 11 different tax increases as President) ]
Of course Reagan had a totally democrat Congresses to deal with as well..
Its a wonder he did what he did.. a miracle really..
The democrats have always been for SPENDING more and more taxpayer bucks..
Its not a new thing.. what happened to the republican party was democrats becoming republicans..
You can remove the democrat form the party but its almost impossible to remove the democrat from the democrat..
Even Reagan was an EX-democrat.. and yes had a little of the spending disease in him..
EX-democrats must be watched they have a virulent disease in them..
They WANT a democracy INSTEAD of a REPUBLIC..
I think Bush(all three of them) were infected.. for sure Romney is.. and probably Perry..
Changebthat to one day vs Obama’s whole life and I’m on board.
RE: Why in the world would anyone post anything from the Frum Forum?
For discussion purposes my friend, as well as for thoughtful and knowledgeable conservatives to rebut them.
Yep.
“Here’s a good rule of thumb.
If you’ve got to deconstruct Reagan to make your guy look good, find another guy.”
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Absolutely—couldn’t agree more.
I couldn’t get through that article. I was a green 18 year-old that first election and I voted for Ronald Reagan because my dad told me to, then I rebelled and voted against him in the next election.
But then I grew up, and came to appreciate him.
Frum?? Even RATS know he’s an idiot.
“Were taxes lower or higher after his term in office from when he first came in?”
The 1986 :Tax Simplification Act” was the bigest tax increase in our history!!!
When he was Governor of California he was one of the biggest tax increasers in history.
Durring his term he doubled taxes and trippled the number of State emoloyees.
The only way he ballanced the budget in his last year was instituting witholding taxes on payroll and taking 2 years taxes on a one time basis in one year.
Look at what he did, not what he spewed out of his mouth!
“came to appreciate him”—both Ronald Reagan ... and my Dad! :)
Had Reagan’s amnesty worked as intended, it would have meant limited numbers and secure borders.
20 or 30 million illegals later, he’d probably kick his own ass for it.
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