IRS demanding share of server's tips.....I had no idea.....this is AWFULL.

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22. See the excerpt and link below. The Senate however, had just flipped to repub.

The Democratic response to the heightened salience of taxation was more
tortured. The problem for the Democrats was especially focused in 1981: reeling
in the wake of the 1980 election, when the Senate had unexpectedly gone
Republican, House Democrats could only wonder whether 1982 would be a
repeat of 1980 (or even of 1934, the last time the party controlling the
presidency gained seats in the House during an off-year election). Southern
Democrats were especially in a tight spot, since the 1980 election represented
the greatest strength of the Republican party in the South since Reconstruction.
Southern Democrats had lost 8 of their 77 seats in the House in the 1980 election, along
with 4 of their 16 Senate seats.

Of the Southern Democrats who remained in the House, Ronald Reagan was proficient
in winning votes in their districts: Reagan carried 58% of the southern districts
that sent a Democrat to the House in 1980 (Almanac of American Politics 1982). (emphasis added)

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The National Bureau of Economic Research
The politics of tax reform 1980s
Charles H. Stewart, III