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To: surfbaron who wrote (8081)	10/14/2002 12:07:45 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Reagan tax policy and logical sentence structure. Your message seems to be that two oranges minus an apple equals something. You treat the cuts in income tax and the increases in social security taxes different ways in different parts of your sentences. If his tax cuts were so wrongheaded why then did social security receipts go through the roof in the 80's? The tax cuts were in income tax, while the social security taxes were raised. might reply that it was the ss rate increase, Uh Huh! I just might. but that also hit biz owners. What does that have to do with anything?, The SS receipts increased because both business and salaried were paying in more. you can not argue that his cuts didn't increase revenue. That's a lot of negation so it's hard to parse just what you mean. It's pretty clear that federal revenues went down after the tax cuts, that's why there was a deficit on more or less the same amount of spending. the proper argument is the mis-accounting of those revenues i.e. ss receipts went for general spending Mis-accounting is not an argument, proper or not, so I can't determine what you are suggesting. I will agree that it was misleading to stop a separate accounting of the social security funds. Reagan pretty much invented the idea of looting pensions which has now come back to haunt Americans . do you deny Tip commited to less spending? I don't recall Tip O'Neil ever pledging support to Reagan's agenda. If I recall he was a New Deal Democrat so why would anyone expect him to be a Republican water-carrier.