Here's a graph I took off a queer who posts charts that he doesn't even understand:
http://acivilamericandebate.com/2011/04 ... ud-part-3/
As the graph clearly shows, Carter's worst year was flat, unlike the worst years of his predecessors, and his correction was
well underway before he handed over the government to retard ronnie in the second quarter of fiscal year 1981. That year's growth was 2.6%. Here are the four years that Carter's house budgeted:
1978 5.6
1979 3.2
1980 -0.2
1981 2.6
As the chart above demonstrates, Carter's numbers were in a significant upward trajectory at handoff.
The chart also shows that Reagan's big spending could only artificially stimulate the economy for a few years. After it overheated, it went into free fall, costing Bush his job. Afterhe brought the country out of the free-fall Bush recession (see chart above), Clinton's spending grew slower than his revenues. Reagan's? Not at all - not at all. His revenue growth was quite anemic compared to the growth in spending.
Let's look at Reagan's taxes and spending, against the preceding 40 years:
http://money.cnn.com/2010/09/08/news/ec ... /index.htm
I found it interesting that the graph at top looks very, very much like the graph immediately below. It seems pretty obvious that the jipper borrowed and spent his way out of trouble. The issue whether it was reagan's keynesian stimulus or his cocksuckerian tax breaks for the rich which saved murka from the fallout from the johnson/nixon breton woods backstab seems answered by this mirror which chart presents:
Excluding the various tricks intended to hit poorer Americans, like raising taxes on cigarette (but NOT pipe) tobacco, Reagan raised taxes on the bottom twice - in 1983, he raised the payroll taxes on all employees (no effect on capital gainers, or above the ceiling on big W2 earners), and in 1986 he raised the income taxes paid by the lowest paid workers - WHILE cutting top rates. Chumps like the sissies o this board ate that up - and it was against them, personally.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Refor ... _tax_rates
The top tax rate for individuals was lowered from 50% to 28% while the bottom rate was raised from 11% to 15%.
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4] Many lower level tax brackets were consolidated, and the upper income level of the bottom rate (married filing jointly) was increased from $5,720/year to $29,750/year. This package ultimately consolidated tax brackets from fifteen levels of income to four levels of income.
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5] This would be the only time in the history of the U.S. income tax (which dates back to the passage of the
Revenue Act of 1862) that the top rate was reduced and the bottom rate increased concomitantly. In addition,
capital gains faced the same tax rate as
ordinary income.
If one looks at the big spenders of the last 35 years, one sees Rs next to their names.
Ragan was a big government, big borrowing, big spending, big regulator.
TOTAL NUMBER OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES, BY ADMINISTRATION
http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversigh ... ince-1962/
Year........Exec Civilians..........Military..........Judicial and legislative..........Total Federal Employees
1977........2,840,000 ..........2,112,000......53,000...............................5,005,000 .....................Ford's last Budget
1981........2,806,000 ..........2,122,000......54,000...............................4,982,000 .....................Carter's last Budget Civilian shrank, military grew
1989........3,064,000 ..........2,168,000......60,000...............................5,292,000 .....................Reagan's last Budget
As % of population, Reagan's military SHRANK. Civilian employees - federal bureaucrats - grew by leaps and bounds.
Let's look at population.
https://www.google.com/fusiontables/Dat ... #rows:id=1 Ford's last year was 220,239,425 people in '77. Carter's last year was 229,465,714 - a population growth of 4.189% during his presidency. Reagan ended 1989 with 246,819,230 people - a population growth of 7.57%. Reagan's military forces (see above) grew by an anemic 2.2% (Carter's only grew by half a point, but Carter was CUTTING civilians, not padding the government employment roster with bureaucrats).
While Reagan was growing the population by 7.57% and the debt by 300% and the military by 2.2%, he was growing the CIVILIAN side of government - the part that focuses on we the people - by a whopping 9.2%. The man who promised to shrink government - who told Americans that government was the problem and that he was going to get government out of their way - grew that government faster than the population it served grew. The debt grew, the economy grew, the federal government's control of education grew, the federal labor force grew. The only thing that grew slower than the population was the military.
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