Jimmy_Jam
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- Sep 29, 2012
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Dead serious.
I thought Reagan was a fine President on many points, but he did run up a deficit. It's common knowledge. The following link is very useful.
USGovernmentSpending.com Past Debt Briefing
Were there higher deficits? Sure, the four highest since the founding always being during wartime. Go figure. War costs a lot of money. But if you look at the chart on deficit, Reagan ran it up to about 6-7%, significantly higher than it was the decade before, so it is accurate to say that he ran up the deficit.