…the way Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill did the last time that Social Security was in deep trouble, and that was way back in 1983.” Ronald Reagan, a conservative president…

…in since 1958. Unfortunately, since we decided to focus on money (yes Reagan) we seem to waffle around 125,000. A full 75,000 person weeks of lost work. However, what is…

…of view. Our presidents have been satanic (Richard Nixon), angelic (Jimmy Carter), a sleepy idiot savant (Ronald Reagan), a cagey realist (George H. W. Bush), wonderfully charming (Bill Clinton) and…

…we are to consider progressive taxation? No it is not. The covers blown. We have not had a progressive tax adjustment since we started playing with the code with Reagan….

…rose 4 points with Reagan/Bush. Well I was right…sort of. Bill # H.R.3876: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to limit the deductibility of excessive rates of executive…

…this country in an amount equal to their acquisition. We’ll take it back to 1981 the beginning of St. Reagan. From 21.83% (2005) to 10.02%. Using BEA’s table 2.1 total…

…tax cuts cause spending cuts after a few years. It may be, for example, that Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts helped doom Bill Clinton’s push for socialized medicine. Not so original….

…the very slow Jonah Goldberg. Government spending as a share of GDP did not decline during the Reagan years and went up during the Bush43 years, which was Niskanen’s point….

…really, really hard on Bush): Bruce Bartlett is a card-carrying Reaganite libertarian. He truly believes in free markets, small government and low taxes. His 1981 book “Reaganomics” was a manifesto…

…not wish to repeat his claim that Reagan slashed Federal spending – else being hammered again by Brad DeLong so he dusts off that old canard from Congressman Watts that…