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The Reagan Legacy
OK, I am in no way directly comparing John McCain to Ronald Reagan.
But seeing how forcefully the hard right slams JM, I was wondering how well President Reagan would objectively hold up to their standards today.
As "In-Line" with the ideology as he was, keep in mind:
- He withdrew the troops from Beirut after the bombings. Does that make him a "cut and runner"?
- He increased funding each year for the National Endowment for the Arts
- He cut taxes early in his term, but then signed off in raising them in 1982's "Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act", which "according to a recent Treasury Department study, TEFRA alone raised taxes by almost 1 percent of the gross domestic product, making it the largest peacetime tax increase in American history."
- In 1986 amnesty and citizenship was granted to illegal aliens
In spite of this, or perhaps because of faded memories, President Reagan is held in high esteem as a "pure conservative".
Again. John McCain is no Ronald Reagan. But by the impossible standards set by the "crybaby conservatives", neither was Pres. Reagan!
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"Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal distribution of poverty." - Winston Churchill
I am not John Galt, I am Jon Arbuckle!
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