Yes. Sort of ruins your idea that Dems...especially back then.... were/are liberals, doesn't it?6ftstick wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:06 amThe eighties?Farfromgeneva wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 10:59 amThe last part is what bugs me. At this point taxes have to go up, unfortunately (thanks boomer generation, will never stop on this one, the 1980s ruined this country for everyone afterwards), but it shouldn’t have been that way and if we have to hit future generations harder than prior ones got as taxes were being reduced and spending went up then some degree of sterilization and reduced spending has to occur too.
2 decades into uninterrupted democrat power in the house and senate. With another decade and a half to go.
We had a thriving middle class, food on the table, reasonable access to health care, solid unions, and corporations paid their share of their taxes----keeping taxes for guys like you low.
And Reagan----and yes, the Dems------turned all that upside down by allowing corporations and the rich to operate without paying their fair share. Result? Your taxes are higher here in 2020 at the State and local level to make up the difference for all that lost revenue....and, of course, we're borrowing trillions to make up the short fall.
So yep, you can place every bit of this at Democrats feet, because it wouldn't have happened without them.
At the same time, none of it happens without either Reagan's signature, or, later, Gingrich's vote.