Are Conservative kids today taught Ronald Reagan’s shameful legacy? or are they taught the "Marry Poppins" Fox News version?

Question

Ronald Reagan’s shameful legacy: Violence, the homeless, mental illness
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_legacy_violence_the_homeless_mental_illness/

Answer 1

Are Democrat kids today using Salon.com as a credible source? Are Democrat kids today not taught that Democrats controlled the House every single year Reagan was President? If you want spending bills and legislation for Mental Illness, the House has to write and pass those spending bills for the President to sign, as they must all originate in the House.



Salon.com conveniently left all of those details out of their entire BS article, and brainwashed you in the process.

Answer 2

Reagan doubled treasury revenue by cutting taxes, and won the Cold War without firing a shot!



All your people seem to accomplish is getting BJ's and taking the debt from 9- to $20 Trillion. Now THAT'S a shameful legacy!





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Answer 3

YOu mean the way Reagan cut federal taxes in more than half, spurring an economic boom that lasted for 20 years? And he managed to do this with a house and senate controlled by the Dimocrats.

Answer 4

You forgot that Reagan passed an amnesty, which attracted over 11 million more illegals. Furthermore, several ADDITIONAL Americans were kidnapped by Lebanese terrorists and their hired thugs AFTER Reagan started rewarding them by selling arms to their backers. You also forgot that 1/7 of your income tax went to pay interest on the national debt last fiscal year, and a good chunk of that was due to Reagan's borrow and spend ways.

Answer 5

Ronald won the cold war.

Salon is not a reputable news source.

Answer 6

Im taught today how horrible and evil white males are, especially if they are Christian. I now have white guilt and use the Twitter tag #crimingwhilewhite, and I am now responsible for ever wrong in the world.



This is what I'm taught today. I am ashamed of myself.

Answer 7

LOL, you use Salon.com as a source and expect us to take you seriously. This is like a conservative using Glenn Beck, only Beck would not lie.

Answer 8

Umm. Salon is a notoriously left wing publication and hardly an objective source of historical analysis. It is you who is getting the fairy tale version.

Answer 9

Salon.com is that the best you can do Tony.



Looks to me you were taught the "Marry Poppins" MSNBC News version.



Here are so real Reagan Facts Tony from multiple reliable sources.



The nominal national debt rose from $900 billion to $2.8 trillion during Reagan's tenure, an average national budget deficit per year of $237.5 billion, as compared to an average national budget deficit per year of $56.9 billion during Carter's tenure. The federal deficit as percentage of GDP rose from 2.65% of GDP in 1980, Carter's final budget year, to 3.04% of GDP in 1988, Reagan's final budget year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaganomics





Ronald Reagan raised taxes 11 times? The real story

http://dailycaller.com/2012/06/06/ronald-reagan-raised-taxes-11-times-the-real-story/



Reagan inherited a nation with 16 tax brackets — ranging from marginal rates of 14 percent to 70 percent. By 1989, that was down to two brackets — with marginal rates of 15 percent and 28 percent.



H.R. 6863 - the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1982 which Ronald Reagan claimed would "bust the budget" was passed by both houses of the DEMOCRAT Congress over his VETO.



Now Reagan also had a democrat congress that refused to make spending cuts after Reagan agreed to raising taxes, This was called TEFRA



President of the United States Ronald Reagan agreed to the tax hikes on the promise from Congress of a $3 reduction in spending for every $1 increase in taxes.

http://www.policyarchive.org/handle/10207/bitstreams/9126.pdf



Some conservatives, led by then-Congressman Jack Kemp, claim that the promised spending reductions never occurred.



One week after TEFRA was signed, H.R. 6863 - the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 1982 which Ronald Reagan claimed would "bust the budget" was passed by both houses of Congress over his veto.



Four years later, then-budget director David Stockman, however, stated that Congress substantially upheld its end of the bargain, and cites the Administration's failure to identify management savings and its resistance to defense spending cuts as the key impediments to greater outlay savings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Equity_and_Fiscal_Responsibility_Act_of_1982



Reagan cut the top marginal income tax rate in half, and doubled revenue to the U.S. Treasury.



Top Marginal Tax Rates

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Docid=213



Reagan Doubled Federal Revenue 1980-1988

http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/downchart_gr.php?year=1980_1990&view=1&expand=&units=b&log=linear&fy=fy12&chart=F0-total&bar=0&stack=1&size=m&title=&state=US&color=c&local=s

Answer 10

Reagan did some bad stuff. I wish republicans would accept this so our country can move on.