tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post4579695011669376622..comments2023-11-03T04:54:28.663-07:00Comments on Reason Reigns: Are you a Jeffersonian or a Reaganite?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-75473710327111773022015-01-11T15:52:29.430-08:002015-01-11T15:52:29.430-08:00Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times, at least ...Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times, at least tripling it, while increasing/expanding many taxes. <br /><br />Romney eliminated huge deficits and created large surpluses in the Salt Lake Olympics and as MA Governor, where 85% of the legislature were Democrats. <br /><br />In 1982, Reagan supported the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA), then the largest tax increase in American history. Reagan's legacy includes large payroll-tax increases. He enacted what at the time was the most dramatic expansion of Medicare coverage since its inception, including a complex system of price controls. He started the phone give-aways. <br /><br />Romney wanted to eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). Reagan pummeled the middle class with the AMT. "The Tax Reform Act of 1986... expanded the AMT from a law for untaxed rich investors to one refocused on middle class Americans who had children, owned a home, or lived in high tax states. This parallel tax system hits middle class Americans the hardest by reducing their deductions & effectively raising their taxes." <br /><br />Most of all, Romney is a businessman, while under Reagan, businessmen were gestapoed. <br /><br />http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/03/17/answering-mark-levins-challenge/Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-23645112789573728352015-01-11T15:24:18.689-08:002015-01-11T15:24:18.689-08:00Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times, at least ...Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times, at least tripling it, while increasing/expanding many taxes. <br /><br />Romney eliminated huge deficits and created large surpluses in the Salt Lake Olympics and as MA Governor, where 85% of the legislature were Democrats. <br /><br />In 1982, Reagan supported the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA), then the largest tax increase in American history. Reagan's legacy includes large payroll-tax increases. He enacted what at the time was the most dramatic expansion of Medicare coverage since its inception, including a complex system of price controls. He started the phone give-aways. <br /><br />Romney wanted to eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). Reagan pummeled the middle class with the AMT. "The Tax Reform Act of 1986... expanded the AMT from a law for untaxed rich investors to one refocused on middle class Americans who had children, owned a home, or lived in high tax states. This parallel tax system hits middle class Americans the hardest by reducing their deductions & effectively raising their taxes." <br /><br />Most of all, Romney is a businessman, while under Reagan, businessmen were gestapoed. <br /><br />http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/03/17/answering-mark-levins-challenge/<br />Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-79625138091490160222014-07-28T14:45:32.253-07:002014-07-28T14:45:32.253-07:00Ayn Rand on Reagan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...Ayn Rand on Reagan<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4196WvmEcYMIlyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-30955067764117416482014-05-28T19:52:22.973-07:002014-05-28T19:52:22.973-07:00Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times, at least ...Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times, at least tripling it, while increasing/expanding many taxes.<br /><br />Romney eliminated huge deficits and created large surpluses in the Salt Lake Olympics and as MA Governor, where 85% of the legislature were Democrats. Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-72903748169935430282014-05-18T05:04:13.596-07:002014-05-18T05:04:13.596-07:00Cruz says his hero is Reagan. Reagan gave amnesty ...Cruz says his hero is Reagan. Reagan gave amnesty to millions, while Cruz decries amnesty.<br /><br />Reagan at least tripled the national debt while increasing/expanding taxes. If Cruz decries the national debt and increasing/expanding taxes, he is an infinte shameless hypocrite.Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-68164508111823206092014-05-18T04:55:16.899-07:002014-05-18T04:55:16.899-07:00Whose actions led to 9-11? REAGAN.
Reagan retreat...Whose actions led to 9-11? REAGAN.<br /><br />Reagan retreated from Lebanon after the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine barracks. (In one of his fatwas, Osama bin Laden cited the pullout as evidence of American weakness.) Reagan also agreed to sell arms for hostages — and not just to any nation, but to the Iranian regime led by Ayatollah Khomeini.<br /><br />http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/03/17/answering-mark-levins-challenge/ <br /><br />Reagan armed the Taliban. <br /><br />http://www.businessinsider.com/reagan-freedom-fighters-taliban-foreign-policy-2013-2Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-47064520863236769072014-05-17T22:02:12.579-07:002014-05-17T22:02:12.579-07:00"Reagan has tripled the Gross Federal Debt, f..."Reagan has tripled the Gross Federal Debt, from $900 billion to $2.7 trillion. Ford and Carter in their combined terms could only double it. It took 31 years to accomplish the first postwar debt tripling, yet Reagan did it in eight." <br /><br />http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=488 Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-6537604512936564452014-05-09T20:56:38.529-07:002014-05-09T20:56:38.529-07:00@ 2:22 - Reagan blamed Carter
https://www.youtub...@ 2:22 - Reagan blamed Carter <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjpwx3IiYNQIlyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-78462383292317699772014-05-09T20:55:46.664-07:002014-05-09T20:55:46.664-07:00Reagan blamed the press.
http://crooksandliars.co...Reagan blamed the press.<br /><br />http://crooksandliars.com/gordonskene/december-1st-1986-and-rag-beirutIlyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-2574678260367371352014-04-23T21:40:27.825-07:002014-04-23T21:40:27.825-07:00Another thing about Reagan in relation to the Bund...Another thing about Reagan in relation to the Bundy Ranch -<br /><br />"DOI’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM)--which was created in 1946--administers 245 million acres of public land nationwide. This includes grazing rights on 155 million acres. The Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978 created the current system of charging rental fees for ranchers to use these acres to feed their private livestock, and was extended by President Ronald Reagan in a 1986 executive order."<br /><br />http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/12/Nevada-Ranch-War-Feds-Right-on-Property-But-Wrong-on-Constitution-and-Limited-Government Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-33298637766963219882014-04-13T06:59:08.055-07:002014-04-13T06:59:08.055-07:00The top 2 reason why I say that Reagan is anti fre...The top 2 reason why I say that Reagan is anti freedom is because he paved the way back to the Dark Ages - <br /><br />"The outstanding political fact of the 1980s is the rise of the New Right, and its penetration of the Republican party under President Reagan.... What we are seeing is the medievalism of the Puritans all over again, but without their excuse of ignorance. We are seeing it on the part of modern Americans, who live not before the Founding Fathers' heroic experiment in liberty, but after it."<br /><br />http://books.google.com/books?id=OsCSArJxIRwC&pg=PT67&lpg=PT67&dq=%22The+outstanding+political+fact+of+the+1980s+is+the+rise+of+the+New+Right%22&source=bl&ots=n7CPlWZI1Q&sig=DNMOF0WNyoTasXpYK9vwzBJRVrM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0JdKU5GOPOvMsQSWqICwAQ&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22The%20outstanding%20political%20fact%20of%20the%201980s%20is%20the%20rise%20of%20the%20New%20Right%22&f=falseIlyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-29082820955125687772014-04-12T06:24:27.132-07:002014-04-12T06:24:27.132-07:00A Democrat, Reagan, darling of Conservatives, conq...A Democrat, Reagan, darling of Conservatives, conquered the GOP. Lenin said, "The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves." Reagan was a success at this Lenin tactic. <br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJDhS4oUm0M Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-21187681308482531652013-11-25T20:21:27.230-08:002013-11-25T20:21:27.230-08:003M granted amnesty -
http://www.ontheissues.org/c...3M granted amnesty -<br /><br />http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Ronald_Reagan_Immigration.htmIlyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-18079977311108912452013-11-25T20:19:59.644-08:002013-11-25T20:19:59.644-08:00http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=48...http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=488Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-7086317751864264512013-11-10T15:01:21.665-08:002013-11-10T15:01:21.665-08:00Another Reaganite! Obamaite, too.
Christie: I’m r...Another Reaganite! Obamaite, too.<br /><br />Christie: I’m ready to be president because I’d do ‘exactly what Ronald Reagan would have done’<br /><br />http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/10/christie-im-ready-to-be-president-because-id-do-exactly-what-ronald-reagan-would-have-done/ <br /><br />Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-62951345279223558722013-11-03T17:19:26.482-08:002013-11-03T17:19:26.482-08:00I've checked the data from the WH Office of Ma...I've checked the data from the WH Office of Management and Budget - "Statutory Limits on Federal debt 1940 - Current" (Table 7.3). <br /><br />Reagan -> 18 increases to the debt ceiling between February 1981 and September 1987. 935B to 2.800T [link inside the photo].<br /><br />Bush43 -> from 5.950T to 11.315T (7 increases)<br /><br />Obama as of 10/17/2013 -> 11.315T to 17.075T<br /><br />-IR<br />http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals/ Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-70582793395981498862013-11-03T15:10:40.448-08:002013-11-03T15:10:40.448-08:00This says 17 times - The debt ceiling was raised o...This says 17 times - The debt ceiling was raised on 17 occasions under President Ronald Reagan, nearly tripling from $935.1 billion to $2.8 trillion.<br /><br />Under Reagan the debt ceiling was raised to:<br />•$985 billion in February 1981;<br />•$999.8 billion in September 1981;<br />•$1.0798 trillion September 1981;<br />•$1.1431 trillion in June 1982;<br />•$1.2902 trillion in September 1982;<br />•$1.389 trillion in May 1993;<br />•$1.49 trillion in November 1983;<br />•$1.52 trillion in May 1984;<br />•$1.573 trillion in July 1984;<br />•$1.8238 trillion in October 1984;<br />•$1.9038 trillion in November 1985;<br />•$2.0787 trillion in December 1985;<br />•$2.111 trillion in August 1986;<br />•$2.3 trillion in October 1986;<br />•$2.32 trillion in July 1987;<br />•$2.352 trillion in August 1987;<br />•and $2.8 trillion in September 1987.<br /><br />http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/moneymatters/tp/5-Presidents-Who-Raised-The-Debt-Limit.htm Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-9338642508610317162013-11-02T17:53:53.821-07:002013-11-02T17:53:53.821-07:00http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/09/24/...http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2013/09/24/Decoding-Ted-Cruz-21-Things-You-Don-t-Know-About-HimIlyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-76931194815402114412013-11-02T17:51:30.225-07:002013-11-02T17:51:30.225-07:00Ted Cruz - Reaganite
https://www.facebook.com/ph...Ted Cruz - Reaganite <br /><br />https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=611356602254913&set=a.124831897574055.18006.100373710019874&type=1&theaterIlyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-3794379960610016452013-11-02T17:51:04.347-07:002013-11-02T17:51:04.347-07:00https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=6113566022...https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=611356602254913&set=a.124831897574055.18006.100373710019874&type=1&theaterIlyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-58375538945783798152013-11-02T17:49:03.782-07:002013-11-02T17:49:03.782-07:00In 1982, Reagan supported the Tax Equity and Fisca...In 1982, Reagan supported the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA), then the largest tax increase in American history. Reagan's legacy includes large payroll-tax increases. He enacted what at the time was the most dramatic expansion of Medicare coverage since its inception, including a complex system of price controls. He started the phone give-aways.<br /><br />Romney wanted to eliminate the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). Reagan pummeled the middle class with the AMT. "The Tax Reform Act of 1986... expanded the AMT from a law for untaxed rich investors to one refocused on middle class Americans who had children, owned a home, or lived in high tax states. This parallel tax system hits middle class Americans the hardest by reducing their deductions & effectively raising their taxes."<br /><br />Reagan retreated from Lebanon after the 1983 bombing of a U.S. Marine barracks. (In one of his fatwas, Osama bin Laden cited the pullout as evidence of American weakness.) Reagan also agreed to sell arms for hostages — and not just to any nation, but to the Iranian regime led by Ayatollah Khomeini.<br /><br />One who describes the early Christians as ANGELS says, "The outstanding political fact of the 1980s is the rise of the New Right, and its penetration of the Republican party under President Reagan.... What we are seeing is the medievalism of the Puritans all over again, but without their excuse of ignorance. We are seeing it on the part of modern Americans, who live not before the Founding Fathers' heroic experiment in liberty, but after it.<br /><br />The New Right is not the voice of Americanism. It is the voice of thought control attempting to take over in this country and pervert and undo the actual American revolution."<br /><br />Under Reagan, businessmen were gestapoed.<br />Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-26619482185478343232013-10-19T10:41:03.989-07:002013-10-19T10:41:03.989-07:00http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements...http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jul/26/barack-obama/obama-says-reagan-raised-debt-ceiling-18-times-geo/ Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-16535124168198212482013-10-19T10:34:13.499-07:002013-10-19T10:34:13.499-07:00The Sad Legacy of Ronald Reagan
http://mises.org/...The Sad Legacy of Ronald Reagan <br />http://mises.org/freemarket_detail.aspx?control=488Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-14936333039603842032013-10-19T10:30:16.313-07:002013-10-19T10:30:16.313-07:00The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms...The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. <br /><br />http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57400369-503544/national-debt-has-increased-more-under-obama-than-under-bush/Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4886353283832358677.post-79837168611501347452013-10-19T10:27:58.767-07:002013-10-19T10:27:58.767-07:00U.S. Federal Deficits, Presidents, and Congress
h...U.S. Federal Deficits, Presidents, and Congress<br /><br />http://home.adelphi.edu/sbloch/deficits.html Ilyn Rosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14361065075979697054noreply@blogger.com