[lbo-talk] California Collapsing: What Would Reagan Do

[Michael Perelman]

You are absolutely correct, but Reagan and George Deukmejian, for all their 
right-wing fanaticism, still were willing to raise taxes rather than to 
destroy the state.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 05:56:03AM -0500, Jim Farmelant wrote:
> 
> All that is certainly true.  However, if in 1966 Pat Brown
> had beaten Reagan and gotten re-elected and then
> in his second term proceeded to raise taxes in order
> to balance the state budget, I can gaurantee you
> that Reagan would have been first in line to denounce
> Brown for raising taxes "on the backs of the people
> of California."
> 

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Michael Perelman
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