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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
(Okay, I understand your point. Honestly, I'm just pissed off that more people haven't taken up, loudly, the fact that Reagan massively increased taxes on the working poor and middle class, pretended it didn't matter because those were payroll taxes that were going into SS, then debt-financed the government and now the day of reckoning is getting closer. That piece of shit set the tone for fiscal irresponsibility that will doom this country.)
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The irresponsibility argument I understand. What that has to do with tax increases on the working poor and middle class I don't. Are you suggesting the portion of Reagan's spending not financed with debt could have been covered exclusively by those outside the middle class and working poor?
A deficit's a holiday from tax obligations for all, not just for the rich, or the poor, or the middle. And even that's generous, as it can be argued the poor and middle get more in terms of services and as a result see a much bigger free lunch from deficit spending than do their wealthy counterparts.
Reagan ballooned deficits, yes. And this is worthy of criticism. But the argument he did so by fucking the poor and middle class doesn't hold water. You wreck a good point stretching to make that argument.
