{"id":350,"date":"2011-11-21T21:53:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T21:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/?p=350"},"modified":"2011-11-21T22:12:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T22:12:12","slug":"dont-be-a-coward-reagan-did-raise-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2011\/11\/21\/dont-be-a-coward-reagan-did-raise-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t be a coward &#8211; Reagan did raise taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-18560_162-57327816\/the-pledge-grover-norquists-hold-on-the-gop\/\"> joint super committee to end all committees <\/a>evidently was unable to accomplish anything.<\/p>\n<p>I blame it on the simplicity of the American people and their lack of understanding that complex problems require more in the way of a solution than a mindless commitment to no new taxes.\u00a0(see\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-18560_162-57327816\/the-pledge-grover-norquists-hold-on-the-gop\/\">The Pledge<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Evidently the committee members really did not believe they had the power to compromise. It is always &#8211; you change because I am right. I just agreed to participate to make this clear.<\/p>\n<p>Cut expenditures AND raise taxes. BTW &#8211; this is what Reagan, supposed Republican hero, actually did. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-07-22\/democrats-recall-reagan-s-tax-increases.html\">HE DID RAISE TAXES<\/a>. It is those politicians who take on expenditures such as wars with taking responsibility for covering the expenses that do not understand balancing the budget.<\/p>\n<p>I have created a mantra &#8211; see if this helps:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Repeat after me &#8211; Reagan raised taxes. Reagan raised taxes. It is OK to be responsible. It is OK to be responsible. I can think for myself. I can think for myself. Rich people have a little extra money. Rich people have a little extra money. I don&#8217;t need all of those campaign contributions. I don&#8217;t need all of those campaign contributions.<\/p>\n<p>Repeat as many times as necessary.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the joint super committee to end all committees evidently was unable to accomplish anything. I blame it on the simplicity of the American people and their lack of understanding that complex problems require more in the way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/2011\/11\/21\/dont-be-a-coward-reagan-did-raise-taxes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningaloud.com\/curmudgeonspeaks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}