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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (136846)	9/3/2013 7:13:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

It's mixed bag according to Wiki---not that I pretend to understand all of this article. But Gross Domestic Product (GDP--the measurement of all goods and services an econmy produces) and revenues rose during the Reagan Administration. We took on more debt too as a percentage of such from 2.65% under Carter to 3.03% under Reagan. Reagan cut taxes, but the rates were still higher than the are today--as far as I can figure. This simple chart pretty much says it all: zfacts.com