Hello Earl,   
      
    >>> He calls it "Reagan's" tax increase, ignoring the fact that   
    >>> it was proposed by a bipartisan commission and passed by a   
    >>> bipartisan majority in Congress before being signed by   
    >>> Reagan.  But Bob considers those facts "meaningless" to the   
    >>> question of whose tax increases they were!  Meaningless!   
      
    >> The commission was headed by Alan Greenspan, and served the   
    >> purposes of the Reagan administration.   
      
   EC>Finally you say something about the bipartisan commission (while   
   EC>still ignoring the bipartisan support in both houses of Congress),   
   EC>but really you say nothing.   
      
   Every committee/commission in Congress is by definition "bipartisan".   
   All that is needed is for one member of another party to be on that   
   committee/commission to make it bipartisan.  See how that works?   
   Golly gee.  I'm sooooo smart.  :)   
      
   EC>Greenspan was one of the fifteen members.  He didn't make the   
   EC>recommendations.   
      
   "If you'll lie by omission, you'll lie by commission."   
   - Kathleen Parker   
      
   Who appointed Greenspan?  Was it a Democrat who appointed him?  Or   
   was it a Republican?  And who set the agenda for the meetings?  Who   
   chaired the meetings?  How many Democrats were on the commssion?   
   How many Republicans were on the commission?   
      
   ED>The commission made the recommendations.  That includes several   
   ED>Democrats including Claude Pepper, and an assistant secretary of HHS   
   ED>under Carter, and a former head of the SSA, and the head of the   
   EC>AFL-CIO!  It was bipartisan, which is one of the many words you just   
   EC>don't understand.   
      
   None of those Democrats had any real power at the time, given there   
   was a Republican president by the name of Ronald Reagan who was heads   
   and heels in love with a monetarist named Alan Greenspan.   
      
   And let's not forget about Reagan's Boy Wonder, David Stockman ...   
      
   --Lee   
      
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