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83. Oh but Reagan lowered the top rates and corporate rates, oil windfall profits tax reduced in 81

Wed Feb 25, 2015, 10:03 AM

Feb 2015

and eliminated in 88. 1981 Reagan reduced Corporate and Top Marginal rates, which were adjusted back up a bit but were never restored. 1982 saw an increase in the Payroll Taxes. The 1986 Reforms again cut the top marginal rates while 'closing loopholes'. Rates for lower incomes were increased.
" Personal income tax revenues declined from 9.4% GDP in 1981 to 8.3% GDP in 1989, while payroll tax revenues increased from 6.0% GDP to 6.7% GDP during the same period.[4] This represented a more regressive tax regime, with more revenue derived from the flat payroll tax versus the progressive income tax."
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We are MUCH better than Republican voters. tridim Feb 2015 #1

Our team good. Their team bad. Yay, us! nichomachus Feb 2015 #22

Yes, Republicans are bad. nt tridim Feb 2015 #23

Yes, Republican Team BAD. BlueCaliDem Feb 2015 #51

Period. LWolf Feb 2015 #62

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"Rebels without a cause." LWolf Feb 2015 #68

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Moving to Sweden as a refugee. Jackpine Radical Feb 2015 #6

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That's pretty much what I think, too. n/t Exhibit A Feb 2015 #9

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A lesser kind. bigwillq Feb 2015 #26

Remember the daze, bigwill? RobertEarl Feb 2015 #48

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Planet TPP. JEB Feb 2015 #10

Oh, you mean the trade deal that isn't? ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #16

My position on TPP is likely not to change. JEB Feb 2015 #30

That is, probably, a true statement ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #34

Give the track record of trade agreements, JEB Feb 2015 #76

There are still poor white males in America ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #18

under fdr highest tax rates were something like 90%. under obama something like 32%. ND-Dem Feb 2015 #72

Too bad for LBJ, then, who cut the top rate by 20%. No liberal there! DanTex Feb 2015 #73

yeah, from 91 to 70%, still way higher than anything today. reagan raised taxes too. so what? ND-Dem Feb 2015 #74

Well, the effect of Obama's economic policies were to prevent a second great depression. DanTex Feb 2015 #75

Oh but Reagan lowered the top rates and corporate rates, oil windfall profits tax reduced in 81 Bluenorthwest Feb 2015 #83

I don't disagree that Reagan's increases were largely regressive. That's why I don't think ND-Dem Feb 2015 #84

I never voted to deprive a person of his or her rights so I am better./NT DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2015 #11

We keep getting fooled... AZ Progressive Feb 2015 #12

Good question... Left coast liberal Feb 2015 #13

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Who needs "electability" ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #19

We seem to have neither principles nor electability MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #27

I think if you were honest ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #29

Whoosh!!! Holy crap!!! MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #31

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Correct. MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #38

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Even when I agree with you, I'm awful? MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #43

You were agreeing with me?... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #45

You wrote that you don't understand MannyGoldstein Feb 2015 #47

Ohhhh, you were being cleverly antagonistic ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #50

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Clearly ... 1StrongBlackMan Feb 2015 #57

And how does that seem to be working for the party? Doctor_J Feb 2015 #40

Seems to be working out pretty well Egnever Feb 2015 #41

so you believe the party's standing is "pretty good" compared to what is was Doctor_J Feb 2015 #44

The 30s 40s etc were a different time Egnever Feb 2015 #46

...^ that 840high Feb 2015 #55

It's won 5 of the past 6 Presidential elections Recursion Feb 2015 #53

Unlikely, since Smirk won twice Doctor_J Feb 2015 #59

Forgetting 2000 already? Smirk lost that one (nt) Recursion Feb 2015 #61

OK, I will grant you that Doctor_J Feb 2015 #65

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take away the politics olddots Feb 2015 #28

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There has been a slow slide. Our side is even using angry attack language in ways newthinking Feb 2015 #33

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xactly - but more and more 840high Feb 2015 #56

. LiberalElite Feb 2015 #79

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Yes. alarimer Feb 2015 #60

They are more afraid of corporations and the media. mmonk Feb 2015 #64

Politicians BubbaFett Feb 2015 #71

There is a HUGH difference ... Martin Eden Feb 2015 #77

Not when we use the word, "redneck". jmondine Feb 2015 #78