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- From: ivaliote@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Lotus )
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- Subject: Re: DC Myth # 302 : A tax increase will lower the deficit
- Keywords: taxes, deficit, lower
- Message-ID: <C1KALz.H68@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 11:29:45 GMT
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- kkopp@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (koppenhoefer kyle cramm) writes:
- > Year Federal Taxes per person
- > 1983 $2,490
- > 1993 $4,438 ( projected )
- >( from a Tax Foundation report , Sept 1992 )
- Good point, however....
-
- > Of course, while the tax burden nearly doubled, the deficit spireled
- >through the roof. [ no need to flame Reagan/Bush, they tried to decrease
- >spending, but Congress wouldn't do it ]
- This is not entirely true, or at least not a string argument. Reagan and Bush
- would have impressed me as *real* Republicans (pre McCarthy era) if they had
- done so much as submit a single balanced budget. That never happened, so they
- never really asserted themselves as standing for fiscal responsibility.
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- As much as I speak, I don't speak for C.C.S.O. Aren't they lucky?
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