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Originally Posted by Tim Hancock
Ah...now I understand, poor George didn't get all of his "free money" .... I wasn't eligible for free money and had to work part-time to pay my way thru school. Maybe I should also be mad at Reagan, didn't I deserve a free ride from the tax payers too?
I guess this reminds me of a good flying buddy who hates Reagan also....he was a union air traffic controller....Reagan wouldn't play footsie with them and showed them the door  |
You worked part time? Hah, what a pansy.
I worked 40+ hours a week to pay for a bio/biochem degree I'll never use.
on Reagan, I have a poorly formed and I'm sure easily knocked down thesis that he is responsible for the beginning of the end of US Manufacturing and destruction of our economy.
By giving illegal aliens amnesty, he gave Business a taste for cheap labor and lower quality standards. A taste that became a hunger in which Business has since been on the hunt for cheaper and cheaper labor no matter the consequences in terms of product quality and quality of jobs in the U.S. And it's this replacement of good paying, high quality manufacturing jobs with lower paying, lower skilled service jobs that has eroded our economy, decreasing tax revenues along the way.
From my perspective, people are living as if they had good, solid lifetime jobs of yesterday and compensating for any delta by going deeper and deeper in debt. and government is following suit.
I would love to see a comparison of per capita tax revenues from the 50s to the present adjusted for everything.