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- From: robinson@mdivax1.uucp (Jim Robinson)
- Subject: Re: Negative Income Tax (Was: Social programs)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.202631.12666@mdivax1.uucp>
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 20:27:53 GMT
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- Gary L Dare (gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu) wrote:
- >cmk@athena.mit.edu (Charles M Kozierok) writes:
- >>gld@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Gary L Dare) writes:
- >>
- >>>[Re: Reagan and Thatcher and spending cuts ...]
- >>>>>they threw up their hands halfway through their first terms.
- >>>>
- >>>>total, unadulterated bull. Reagan's deficits were horrendous all
- >>>>through his terms.
- >>>
- >>>That's what I meant. Slow down and read more carefully next time.
- >>
- >>bull that's what you meant. slow down and *think* more carefully next time.
- >>
- >>you put Reagan and Thatcher in the same class as "fiscal
- >>conservatives". Thatcher was. Reagan was not. Reagan never *was*.
-
- >However, numerous guests from the Republican and Libertarian side
- >on CNN Crossfire persist in that notion, and that is the general
- >impression that has been left on people. John C. Whitehead, who
- >is now a senior partner at Goldman Sachs, former undersecretary
- >in the Reagan State Dept. and the chairman of the foundation that
- >runs the private grad dormitory that I live in has expressed that
- >viewpoint in his speeches and directly to me over drinks.
-
- Gotta go w/ Charles on this one: Reagan was as much a fiscal conservative
- as was David Peterson; the only difference being on which area(s) to spend
- like a banshee - military or social. Gary, would I be wrong if I guessed
- that Mr Whitehead is one of the Reagan-can-do-no-wrong Republicans?
-
- As an aside, it has been suggested that Reagan and co know that his "voodoo
- economics" would produce massive deficits, but that was fine and even
- desirable; the reason being that by the time the chickens came home to
- roost the Republicans would have already firmly entrenched their spending
- objectives (largely military), but with no fiscal room to maneuver it would
- be almost impossible for a future Democratic administration to increase
- social spending. Don't know how much currency to put in this theory, but it
- is interesting.
-
- --
- Jim Robinson
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