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


To: Peter O'Brien who wrote (537280)2/8/2004 7:29:19 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769670
 
My original point was that the big budget deficits during the Reagan years did not just disappear by growth alone. There were many tax increases and a capital gains tax cut. I would submit that the tax increases in 1982, 1986, 1990 and 1993 far outweighed the reduction in capital gains rates.