When faced with mounting debt Reagan raised taxes!!

[The Paperboy]

Under Reagan top personal tax bracket dropped from 70% to 28%.

 

[rayboyusmc]

Trickle down - Wow!

 

[PeterS]

He was a man whose energy policies would have worked to save us from the mess we're in now.

How shamefully prescient that man was.

I never have understood the conservative animosity for Carter. His YoY spending was just slightly below that of Reagans; he opened up North Slope oil; started the ball rolling on deregulation; placed Saddam on the terrorist list; pushed through CART restrictions that cut oil consumption and the price of gas in half; and not only believed in Christ but lived his beliefs.

Yet cons hated him. Go figure...

 

[The Paperboy]

Also cardigans.

Mr. Cater's Neighborhood​

20% interest rates.

7.8% unemployment.

Iran Hostage Crises.

Mondale.

 

[PeterS]

20% interest rates.

7.8% unemployment.

Iran Hostage Crises.

Mondale.

Reagan embraces the same fed policy, the high unemployment was largely the result of stagflation due to decade long high oil prices, and the hostages were released with no deaths.

As for Mondale...what exactly was the problem?

 

[DiveCon]

Reagan embraces the same fed policy, the high unemployment was largely the result of stagflation due to decade long high oil prices, and the hostages were released with no deaths.

As for Mondale...what exactly was the problem?

well, he ran 4 years later, and won 2 states and DC
LOL

 

[xsited1]

The President controls the budget.

Congress is just a rubber stamp.

Reading the Rev. Moon's newspaper I see...

Ahem. When do you graduate High School?

 

[The Paperboy]

and the hostages were released with no deaths.

Perhaps you're forgetting the botched rescue attempt.

 

[PeterS]

Under Reagan top personal tax bracket dropped from 70% to 28%.

The 87 tax act was revenue neutral...that is, cuts were balanced with increases and/or the elimination of deductions. The net effect of the 87 tax act was to increase the effective rate from 20.9% to 21.6% and 0.6% under where it was in 1979 under Carter. In other words, under Reagan we saw a redistribution of tax burden but very little decrease in total tax burden and since the top 1% saw their tax burden decline from 37% to 31.2% guess where that redistribution of taxes went....

 

[PeterS]

Perhaps you're forgetting the botched rescue attempt.

True but the predicate was shame and I am not ashamed of the rescue attempt nor the courage those men showed. How are you ashamed?

 

[Red Dawn]

I never have understood the conservative animosity for Carter. His YoY spending was just slightly below that of Reagans; he opened up North Slope oil; started the ball rolling on deregulation; placed Saddam on the terrorist list; pushed through CART restrictions that cut oil consumption and the price of gas in half; and not only believed in Christ but lived his beliefs.

Yet cons hated him. Go figure...

He didn't handle the hostage crises well. That was his major downfall. And while he was an honest man, we wasn't a particularly good politician, at least from the pulpit of the presidency.

Yet, in retrospect, his handling of the hostage crises was no worse, in fact arguably better than Reagan's handling of the Lebanese hostage crisis. Carter never caved into terrorists, or paid ransom for hostages like Reagan did. Carter never illegally sold high tech weapons secretly to iran, to gain the hostages freedom.

 

[PeterS]

He didn't handle the hostage crises well. That was his major downfall. And while he was an honest man, we wasn't a particularly good politician, at least from the pulpit of the presidency.

Yet, in retrospect, his handling of the hostage crises was no worse, in fact arguably better than Reagan's handling of the Lebanese hostage crisis. Carter never caved into terrorists, or paid ransom for hostages like Reagan did. Carter never illegally sold high tech weapons secretly to iran, to gain the hostages freedom.

Carter got through the bulk of his foreign policy, fiscal policy, cuts to discretionary spending, increases to military spending, energy policy, and deregulation all against a hostel democrat controlled congress. How can you accomplish what he accomplished and be a bad politician? As for Iraq no one could have handled it any better--certainly not Reagan.

 

[WillowTree]

yes, but what's yer point? thebrockguy will not raise taxes on anyone unless they make over 250,000 dollars,, right? right.



and he's gonna make sure I have health care just like he does..


without raising my taxes...



what's not to like?





we will see.. gobrockguy

 

[The Paperboy]

True but the predicate was shame and I am not ashamed of the rescue attempt nor the courage those men showed. How are you ashamed?

No shame here.

 

[The Paperboy]

yes, but what's yer point? thebrockguy will not raise taxes on anyone unless they make over 250,000 dollars,, right? right.

and he's gonna make sure I have health care just like he does..

without raising my taxes...

what's not to like?

we will see.. gobrockguy

Working less is seeming like a better idea all the time!

 

[Ravi]

He didn't handle the hostage crises well. That was his major downfall. And while he was an honest man, we wasn't a particularly good politician, at least from the pulpit of the presidency.

Yet, in retrospect, his handling of the hostage crises was no worse, in fact arguably better than Reagan's handling of the Lebanese hostage crisis. Carter never caved into terrorists, or paid ransom for hostages like Reagan did. Carter never illegally sold high tech weapons secretly to iran, to gain the hostages freedom.

Doesn't Carter actually get credit for solving the hostage crisis? Just because Ronnie took office around the day it was resolved...I've never understood why Ronnie got credit.

 

[Chris]

Doesn't Carter actually get credit for solving the hostage crisis? Just because Ronnie took office around the day it was resolved...I've never understood why Ronnie got credit.

Because people are stupid.

 

[PeterS]

No shame here.

And yet the animosity by conservatives towards Carter remains. It really doesn't make any sense. Were you against increased military spending; against North Slope oil; against deregulation of airlines, trucking, and railroads; against pegging Saddam as the terrorist he was; against indexing taxes to inflation and reducing capital gains taxes; against breaking the back of stagflation; against having a real Christian as a president? What part of Carters actions, all against a very hostile Democratic congress, were so abhorrent to conservatives?

 

[bk1983]

And yet the animosity by conservatives towards Carter remains. It really doesn't make any sense. Were you against increased military spending; against North Slope oil; against deregulation of airlines, trucking, and railroads; against pegging Saddam as the terrorist he was; against indexing taxes to inflation and reducing capital gains taxes; against breaking the back of stagflation; against having a real Christian as a president? What part of Carters actions, all against a very hostile Democratic congress, were so abhorrent to conservatives?

They cannot answer the question because they dont think for themselves, just follow RNC talking points and ignore history seem to be the popular trend.

 

[editec]

Doesn't Carter actually get credit for solving the hostage crisis? Just because Ronnie took office around the day it was resolved...I've never understood why Ronnie got credit.

More importantly, Ayatollah Homenie took credit for putting Reagan in office.

You do all realize that, right? The American people were played like puppets by that person they most hated.

He set out to prove, just as he said he would, that he could topple the sitting American POTUS, and he succeeded...using the hostgages as, well...hostages, naturally.

He set the hostages free during the swearing in ceremony of Reagan, just to prove his point.

And what was his point?

That a so-called democratic society is easy to manipulate.

Reagan was elected and the Ayatollah gained political capital because of it in Iran.

The Ayatollah Homenie was Ronald Reagan's most important political ally.