This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Tax Cut Madness
Message #197028
AK> Yes, the last really big rise in unemployment did approach 10%, peaking around 9.8, as I recall. Under Reagan. Not Carter. Do you recall that the unemployment peaked right after Carter's policies were replaced by Reagan's?
Tax Cut Madness
Message #197027
AK> Under Carter, the final one-year deficit we labored under was 73.8 billion dollars. Under Reagan, that ballooned to 273 billion dollars. Those are the figures for the 1980 and 1986 single-year deficits (I don't have later years handy), not the cumulative debt. You people talk about "under Reagan" as…
Tax Cut Madness
Message #197026
EPE> You talk a good story but what is the answer? I am not in favor of giving government more control over people's lives. That isn't the question. The question is whether it is the federal government that shoves its snout into our lives, or local government. I believe the…
Tax Cut Madness
Message #197025
EPE> Surely you jest. How can anyone believe Uncle George when he said No new Taxes? I believed him. He said it long and loud and often. I believed him. EPE> I do not consider myself more intelligent than anyone else, but there was so much about Uncle George that…
Tax Cut Madness
Message #197024
SRT> The Commerce data comes from the 1990 "Statistical Abstract of the United States" (page 425), and online data available in CENDATA. SRT> The OMB data comes from the 1988 "United States Budget in Brief" (page 111) and the 1992 "Budget of the United States Government" (Part Seven, page 71).…
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Prayer
Message #197023
GH> My child's first period teacher wouldn't be a Satanist, at least not one week after I found out. SMB> Then I take it that it's OK with you if your child's first period teacher is no longer a Christian one week after a classmate's Jewish (or Moslem or Buddhist…
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Tax Cut Madness
Message #197022
AK> Oh stop it. You keep pretending that the LARGER rises in the deficit before the tax hike are less revelatory than the SMALLER rises after it. Not at all. The largest tax hike in history has produced the largest annual deficit. The new deficit is now projected by the…
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Prayer
Message #197021
GH> > VCV> Of course, your statement here defines your attitude that you are willing to accept the wording of a prayer by a group of individuals whom you heretofore rated as less than, shall we say, committed to excellence. Well there are certain prayers whose wording few people need…
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Tax Cut Madness
Message #197020
DJ> You make the claim that Congress was responsible for the economics of the 1980s. No I don't. I made the claim that congress was responsible for the deficits of the 1980s, not the economics.