Can someone tell me the amount of debt Regan and the Bush's accumulated?

[nynco]

At no other time in US history have we cut taxes and gone to war. It was and is being proven today to be pure insanity. You all want to fix the debt and avoid a dollar melt down. Go back to the tax structures from Roosevelt till Reagan. Our economy was booming back then. The middle class was receiving pay increases that mirror the increases in productivity. After Reagan we went into astronomical debt and today it takes two income earners to earn what my father did in purchasing power in 1979. Reagan was the beginning of the end for the middle class. Time to learn from that mistake and move forward.

[spqrzilla]

At no other time in US history have we cut taxes and gone to war. It was and is being proven today to be pure insanity. You all want to fix the debt and avoid a dollar melt down. Go back to the tax structures from Roosevelt till Reagan. Our economy was booming back then. The middle class was receiving pay increases that mirror the increases in productivity. After Reagan we went into astronomical debt and today it takes two income earners to earn what my father did in purchasing power in 1979. Reagan was the beginning of the end for the middle class. Time to learn from that mistake and move forward.

This makes no sense at all. You've associated things that are simply not associated and filled your comment with non sequiturs. Our economy has boomed since the Reagan era tax reforms as well. There were tax reforms in the JFK administration too.

If you've a specific tax proposal make it, but your vague belief that there was something special about pre-Reagan tax structure is nonsensical. Tax rates were higher, but applied to less income. Do you have any idea what the practical differences were?

Tax foundation refutes your claims rather handily.

http://taxfoundation.org/article/com...-bush-tax-cuts

[nynco]

No the economy boomed for one section of the US population. For the rest of us today it takes two wage earners to have the same purchasing power as one in 1979. I don't measure a boom by how the richest do. I look at the total picture, which the total pictures shows that the vast majority of the population did not feel the boom since Reagan one bit. Other than a boom as in broke.

Also At no other time in US history have we cut taxes and gone to war

That is a fact

[low drag]

This makes no sense at all. You've associated things that are simply not associated and filled your comment with non sequiturs. Our economy has boomed since the Reagan era tax reforms as well. There were tax reforms in the JFK administration too.

If you've a specific tax proposal make it, but your vague belief that there was something special about pre-Reagan tax structure is nonsensical. Tax rates were higher, but applied to less income. Do you have any idea what the practical differences were?

Tax foundation refutes your claims rather handily.

http://taxfoundation.org/article/com...-bush-tax-cuts

People always make the mistake of mixing up receipts to the US Treasury with outputs spent by congress. I understand what you're saying, those on the left that haven't gotten it yet won't.