Reagan actually ended up raising taxes - eleven times.

kpete

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Reagan actually ended up raising taxes - eleven times.

Reagan actually ended up raising taxes - eleven times. That's according to former Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, a longtime Reagan friend who co-chaired President Obama's fiscal commission that last year offered a deficit reduction proposal.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20030729-503544.html

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underpants

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Sun Feb-06-11 12:03 PM
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1. McClatchy article with almost the exact same title - same ending basically too

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/02/06/108136/commentary-reagans-myth-doesnt.html#storylink=omni_popular

Reagan, in other words, couldn�t be counted among contemporary Reaganites.

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ET Awful

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Sun Feb-06-11 12:04 PM
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2. Of course he did, he instituted the largest peacetime tax increases in US history during his terms.

He also set the stage for the decline of the US as a manufacturing power and as the number one lending nation in the world to the number one debtor country.

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