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To: Bill who wrote (1871)	4/6/2006 2:39:07 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 14758

Reala also raised taxes, though he called them by a different name. He still left us a whopper deficit, forcing Bush Sr. and Clinton to both raise taxes more. Much of Reagan's deficit was based on his "free enterprise" deregulation of the S+L's, which Bush's brother had a hand in as well. A 300 billion dollar rip off of the public wealth. But nothing Reagan did or spent compared to the trillions in ripoffs and borrowing and over-spending going on now. BTW, guys like Hannity and Limbaugh regularly lie about the revenues Reagan brought in, supposedly by lowering taxes. They deliberately ignore the real math.

To: Bill who wrote (1871)	4/6/2006 2:43:25 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Can you give me any figures which support actual military cuts by Reagan (which is what we were talking about), rather than a simple shifting of money to alternative programs? I've always felt his "deficits don't matter" philosophy was a problem. I think he put Bush senior (a president who I actually had some respect for) in a terrible position. I couldn't find any stats on the net that showed him reducing the military. I didn't look for data on his budgets overall because that wasn't what we were talking about.