The only source I can find You're not researching much apparently. It is right in the first paragraph of the Times article you referenced if you bothered to read it:
imposed a 100 percent tariff today on some Japanese-made computers, television sets and power tools.
So, what is your point. I am 100% correct.
You are so lax on reading your own freekin' article I will just say I am 100% correct on the payroll tax: there are countless references in a Google search, you must be kidding:
In 1983, Reagan signed off on legislation to raise payroll taxes and tax Social Security benefits for some higher earners.
That is just the first one right off the top from Politifact. Obviously you are jerking my chain.
Stop misquoting me, never mind truncating my quotes. I said the only source I could find for the alleged increase of the
payroll tax was
Krugman, and he could not cite an increase in the rate, but only in the percentage of government revenue represented by what was taken in from payroll tax. Not even
this article makes a claim that tax rates herein were raised, but uses sophistry with respect to what they call “effective tax rates” due to their being indexed to inflation.
Since I said that you were lying about a tariff being put on Japanese imports (which happened), I
take that back with all humility. However, you were not candid about the nature, which was a response to Japanese violation of the semiconductor agreement and did not stipulate that it was levied only on
certain goods.
Also, I would leave Politifact (the baby of the Poynter Institute, yet another Soros-funded group) alone. They play fast and loose with facts. Some documentation of that is
here.