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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Thats one example of a Republican
	Date:	3/13/2010 10:31:20 AM

Now lets talk about the 5,000 examples of Demoncrats raising taxes...or 10,000......let's talk about the Demoncrats $1.6 trillion deficit when they had absolute power over our government.

You see that's the problem with you constantly pointing out the exceptions when Republicans make a mistake as if that justifies the rule of Demoncrats always making that same mistake. You see GF, if its wrong to raise taxes it is always wrong regardless of whether it is a Dem doing what they do best and loving it or a Republican getting off the reservation.

As for your specific example, Reagan and the GOP-controlled Senate sadly had to compromise with the Dems that controlled the House and could filibuster in the Senate by allowing means testing for taxing SS benefits. I can assure you left to their own devices they would have NEVER proposed this. But in order to get the tax cuts that fueled 20 years of economic growth they agreed to this particular increase as well as some other Dem-inspired requirements to get it through the House.

What we also got was an increase in spending likewise foisted on us by the Dems in the House that fueled the increase in deficits. How do I know this? Because after the Reagan tax cuts revenue to the government actually INCREASED as predicted but sadly spending outpaced the increase in revenue and hence the deficits. I could refer you to some historically accurate books about this but it would be a waste of time.

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