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*sigh*
I see another edition of 'correcting the re-writting of Reagan' is in order.
Reagan cut taxes and rebuilt the military. He did not blow the budget to do it. Under Reagan, revenue increased every year after the first two. The first two were recession years caused by cleaning up the mess that Carter left.
The reason the deficit exploded, despite increasing revenues, is due to the demo controlled Congress. Rather than keeping their promise to peg spending to inflation, they spent at a rate twice that of revenue. They also threw out the Reagan budgets every year and created their own, usually at the last minute.
If the demos in Congress had simply kept their promise to reign in spending and allowed Reagan to keep to the budgets he submitted the debt would never have happened.
By contrast, the reason we have surplusses now, is because the GOP Congress has refused to pass some of Slick Willy's more outrageous spending plans. Sadly however, they've subsitutied a few of their own.
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