You gotta say one thing for Ronald Reagan and his administration, they raised taxes constantly, and yet the right wing hadn't yet become the Pavlov dog of taxes. Reagan's folks fooled the right wing fools into thinking they were getting tax cuts. One of the great cons of modern American history. Paid pipers will create a history for the braindead republicans and they will all bark on cue. Today like puppies they yap and yap whenever the word tax is mentioned. They are some of the most trained citizens the world has ever known. Pavlov would have loved them.
To be fair, I do give Reagan credit for raising taxes many times, and in a bipartisan manner helping social security. http://www.usmessageboard.com/education/126617-reagan-and-taxes.html
"Its conservative lore that Reagan the icon cut taxes, while George H.W. Bush the renegade raised them. As Stockman recalls, "No one was authorized to talk about tax increases on Ronald Reagans watch, no matter what kind of tax, no matter how justified it was." Yet raising taxes is exactly what Reagan did. He did not always instigate those hikes or agree to them willinglybut he signed off on them. One year after his massive tax cut, Reagan agreed to a tax increase to reduce the deficit that restored fully one-third of the previous years reduction. (In a bizarre bit of self-deception, Reagan, who never came to terms with this episode of ideological apostasy, persuaded himself that the three-year, $100 billion tax hikethe largest since World War IIwas actually "tax reform" that closed loopholes in his earlier cut and therefore didnt count as raising taxes.)
Faced with looming deficits, Reagan raised taxes again in 1983 with a gasoline tax and once more in 1984, this time by $50 billion over three years, mainly through closing tax loopholes for business. Despite the fact that such increases were anathema to conservativesand probably cost Reagans successor, George H.W. Bush, reelectionReagan raised taxes a grand total of four times just between 1982-84." Newsflash: Ronald Reagan Raised Taxes (You Idiots) | Firedoglake
To be fair, I do give Reagan credit for raising taxes many times, and in a bipartisan manner helping social security. http://www.usmessageboard.com/education/126617-reagan-and-taxes.html
"Its conservative lore that Reagan the icon cut taxes, while George H.W. Bush the renegade raised them. As Stockman recalls, "No one was authorized to talk about tax increases on Ronald Reagans watch, no matter what kind of tax, no matter how justified it was." Yet raising taxes is exactly what Reagan did. He did not always instigate those hikes or agree to them willinglybut he signed off on them. One year after his massive tax cut, Reagan agreed to a tax increase to reduce the deficit that restored fully one-third of the previous years reduction. (In a bizarre bit of self-deception, Reagan, who never came to terms with this episode of ideological apostasy, persuaded himself that the three-year, $100 billion tax hikethe largest since World War IIwas actually "tax reform" that closed loopholes in his earlier cut and therefore didnt count as raising taxes.)
Faced with looming deficits, Reagan raised taxes again in 1983 with a gasoline tax and once more in 1984, this time by $50 billion over three years, mainly through closing tax loopholes for business. Despite the fact that such increases were anathema to conservativesand probably cost Reagans successor, George H.W. Bush, reelectionReagan raised taxes a grand total of four times just between 1982-84." Newsflash: Ronald Reagan Raised Taxes (You Idiots) | Firedoglake