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    Repiglican Roast

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    I'm furious about my squandered nation.

    Wednesday, November 23, 2005

    Hannity again falsely claimed that Reagan's tax cuts "doubled revenue"

    {...} evidence suggests that the Reagan tax cuts were not the cause of the revenue increases that did occur during the 1980s. As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has documented, citing figures from OMB, "Income tax receipts grew noticeably more slowly than usual in the 1980s, after the large cuts in individual and corporate income tax rates in 1981." By contrast, "income tax collections grew much more rapidly in the 1990s," when "marginal income tax rates at the top of the income spectrum were raised," CBPP noted.

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