humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Apr 11, 9:59 am, Agent Cooper wrote:

> Now as an old Reaganaut I am far from blaming the Old Man for
> this. But it created a precedent that deficit spending by Republicans
> ain't so bad, and gave political cover for what were essentially
> Keynesian pump-priming policies. Ever since, ironically, the
> Republican Party has become the fiscally irresponsible one,


Would you like to address this issue, for once? How did the Clinton
Administration apply the 1991 24% increase in FICA taxes recommended
by the bipartisan Moynihan Commission and President Reagan in 1983 to
carry out ANY of the recommendations of the Moynihan Commission? As
recently as 2001, Moynihan said that "a new system could be designed
that, by giving families private stock accounts, would help poorer
Americans to accumulate wealth and to pass it on to succeeding
generations." Which party, contradicting the agreement reached in
1983, vigorously opposes any such system but would rather just
successively increase taxes, and reduce benefits, and increase
retirement age, only to pool the ever-increasing taxes into the
general revenue fund? Which party in negotiations with the newly
President Bush agreed to bipartisan support for changes in Education,
Medicare (prescription), Immigration and Social Security and then
proceeded to act in every way to sabotage the President's bipartisan
efforts on all of these, except Immigration?