Happy 100th Birthday Ronald Reagan.

[Jim Jeffries]

The greatest president of the last century was born 100 years ago today. We need him today even more than we did after 4 years with that disaster Jimmy Carter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ubwc_xKb6fc



Gotta love the new Times cover

[BrooklynBomber]

bitch, he dead.

[Cupocity303]

Overrated.

[Kevin Malone]

http://mises.org/daily/5009/The-Reagan-Fraud-and-After

If you are looking for bigger government and higher taxes Reagan and Obama are your guys...

[badblood]

Ronald Reagan one of the greatest presidents America has ever know.

[Jim Jeffries]

Originally Posted by Kevin Malone

http://mises.org/daily/5009/The-Reagan-Fraud-and-After

If you are looking for bigger government and higher taxes Reagan and Obama are your guys...

I think you ought to take a look at the tax rates under Carter before making yourself look even more foolish.

[Kevin Malone]

Originally Posted by Jim Jeffries

I think you ought to take a look at the tax rates under Carter before making yourself look even more foolish.

I think you might want to learn history and reality before you bow before a politician and worship them.

Government and taxes increased under Reagan in California as governor and in the US as President.

If all you got is the canned standard Rush/Hannity drone "look at specific tax rate 'x' under Carter" you got nothin'...

[Miburo]

All the deficit spending and debt started here. Amazing to think the US was below $1 trillion before his tenure. What a champion, Reaganomics ftw

[Cupocity303]

Originally Posted by Kevin Malone

http://mises.org/daily/5009/The-Reagan-Fraud-and-After

If you are looking for bigger government and higher taxes Reagan and Obama are your guys...

Despite his bravado about having stopped the growth of state government, the actual story is that the California budget grew by 122 percent during his eight years as governor, not much of an improvement on the growth rate of 130 percent during the preceding two terms of free-spending liberal Pat Brown . The state bureaucracy increased during Reagan's administration from 158,000 to 192,000, a rise of nearly 22 percent — hardly squaring with Reagan's boast of having "stopped the bureaucracy cold."

Nor "is Reagan's record on taxes any comfort. He started off with a bang by increasing state taxes nearly $1 billion in his first year in office — the biggest tax increase in California history . Income, sales, corporate, bank, liquor, and cigarette taxes were all boosted dramatically." After his reelection as governor in 1970, "two more tax hikes — in 1971 and 1972 — raised revenues by another $500 million and $700 million respectively." Overall,

IF a carbon copy or Reagan introduced himself into today's politics, only with a different name. The same people who are all up in his ass-crack would be the first to call him a Elitist Hollywood type Tax and Spend Liberal.

[Jim Jeffries]

Originally Posted by Kevin Malone

I think you might want to learn history and reality before you bow before a politician and worship them.

Government and taxes increased under Reagan in California as governor and in the US as President.

If all you got is the canned standard Rush/Hannity drone "look at specific tax rate 'x' under Carter" you got nothin'...

You're just wrong kid, sorry to burst your bubble. Reagan cut taxes across the board, pretty amazing considering he had to fight the Dems in Congress to do it. Not only that, but he greatly simplified the tax structure.

But don't take my word for it, look it up for yourself:

http://www.taxfoundation.org/publications/show/151.html