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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (43255)	5/18/2010 2:11:32 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: was a link to an quote of an opinions piece about how "starve the beast" failed to reduce government spending. (How it failed to reduce government spending as a percentage of Gross National Product, yes. And it pretty conclusively proved it's point too, I'd say....) Re: In other words it was an article about the effect of tax changes on government spending (specifically claiming that cutting taxes does not lead to lower government spending) Two sides of the same coin.... Showed that the ever-so-slight-reduction, (still within the margin or error or normal fluctuations), of government spending that occurred across the eight Reagan/Bush Presidency years was completely swamped by the MUCH LARGER reduction of government spending that the eight years of the Clinton Presidency produced.... (And that even the extremely modest Reagan reduction was blown apart by the subsequent Bush I Presidency's spending... which was, again, only cut by the Clinton terms....)