Bloom County by Berkeley Breathed for February 22, 2013

Saint Ronnie said higher taxes were good.Why does the current GOP disagree?

Everything sounds better, after 2 dozen eggnogs.

Looks like caroling and politics don’t mix.

Same song, different party.

Somebody needs to check the timing belt on this strip

Reagan raised taxes dozens of times, especially payroll taxes that hit the middle class hardest, and never once submitted a balanced budget. Most of what you hear about him is a manufactured myth.

At least he submitted a budget……..

chizzel – the strip isn’t done any more. These are re-runs.

Regan began with a dead economy and kickstarted it by cutting taxes, per the trickledown theory. When this didn’t work fast enough he restored the tax cuts and instead borrowed from the US to get money (=industry=jobs) into the economy. Net result was the tripling of the national debt. This worked out so well that from then on borrowing and raising the national debt was standard practice; the only president to reduce the national debt (over the objections of the Republicans. Remember what happened to Newt?) was Clinton.

Humph—that got mangled somewhere…Regan actually ended the tax cuts that he started at the beginning of his term.

There’s only one problem with trickle-down economics: it doesn’t consider the greed of those at the top, who decide not to let the economics trickle out of their hands. I think the middle class should have gotten the bailout. But then again, greed is not limited to the rich.

You people are insane, yeah, 20 TRILLION dollars of debt is good right? Why don’t YOU go out and do the same thing with YOUR personal budget. My god, yer idiots.

didn’t jesse helms oppose any funding for hiv/aids prevention?