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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ecommerceman who wrote (126738)	2/13/2001 12:17:46 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I think that it is true enough that Reagan was overly sanguine about matching spending cuts with revenue. But I think that Stockmann simply didn't understand that it didn't matter much, as time has borne out, and chickened out as a conventional Republican deficit hawk. And while it is true that there was some interest in tax reform on the Democratic side, and that some deregulation occurred in the Carter Administration, it is overblown to make out that the extent of each was primarily a matter of Democratic initiatives. Some Democrats were interested, sure. Some of them, like Phil Gramm, eventually became Republicans. The real split, of course, was not Democrat/Republican, but liberal/conservative, and it was mainly conservatives and occasional moderates who showed an interest in tax reform and deregulation. Heck, I was a Democrat myself in the 80s, though a Reagan supporter.......