DAVID STOCKMAN: Woodshedded for telling truth about Reaganomics.

  • DAVID STOCKMAN: “Woodshedded” in his youthful days for telling truth about Reaganomics.

Ernest Dumas tells some important truths about Republican budget messaging — something you won’t hear from Republicans.

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Facts: Ronald Reagan didn’t cut federal spending or, in the end, taxes. Tax cuts for the wealthy under Reagan and Bush didn’t create economic prosperity. The only meaningful budget discipline and federal government reduction came from a Democratic administration (Bill Clinton). George W. Bush exploded deficits, which Dick Cheney said didn’t matter. Reagan’s budget adviser, David Stockman, says current Republican Party messaging on the need for still more tax cuts for the wealthy is rank demagoguery. Says Stockman:

“If these people were all put into a room on penalty of death to come up with how much they could cut, they couldn’t come up with $50 billion, when the problem is $1.3 trillion. So, to stand before the public and rub raw this anti-tax sentiment, the Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say it, should be ashamed of themselves.”

Breathes a single Republican in public office today who’s such a truth teller? You know the answer. You may now return to the regular scheduled messages from Republicans that they’ve delivered only smaller government and greater prosperity; that budget deficits are the country’s main concern, and that black man in the White House is a Muslim, African, socialist spendthrift.

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