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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: i-node who wrote (45849)11/20/2017 6:16:46 PM
From: zzpat  Read Replies (1) of 355858
 
Reagan didn't win the Cold War. Gorbachev gave the people of the former USSR the right to free elections and they used this right to vote communists out of power. The fall of the USSR was then used as an excuse for the Reagan debt. It's simply not true.

In nearly every speech Reagan gave on the issue, he said the US needed to catch up with the USSR not bankrupt them (besides a communist country can't go bankrupt because their currency is not floated and there isn't any interest or debt).

Regardless it's always fun to see how easy it is for people to fall for things that are not true to justify the failure of their party.

Imagine if Reagan said, "I want to spend $1 trillion on new defense spending and raise your taxes by $1 trillion to pay for it." Not even his wife would have voted for him, but a tax cut...well, that's an easy sell. Free spending, free tax cuts, massive debt and you get buildings named after you.
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