Here’s a blast from the past that should be resuscitated today. 
It’s a campaign commercial produced by the 1984 Reagan campaign.
And while it doesn’t have the substance and strength of the Gipper’s own words, the message is as appropriate in 2011 as it was in 1984.
The strength of this commercial isn’t just that it appeals to pocketbook concerns. It also makes the direct connection between higher taxes and higher spending, thus trumping the typical DC prevarication that higher taxes will be used to reduce red ink.
Speaking of which, the cartoon in this post is one of my best creations, probably surpassing Mitchell’s Law and Mitchell’s Golden Rule.
International Liberty 
Like Reagan?
Like cutting Government?
Largest increase in government in peacetime=80% by ron
Like Cutting Debt–180% increase by Ron
Like Job Increase–cut Carter job increase rate by 24%
Like Truth–book “Ronald Reagan There He Goes Again” listing over 300 non truths.
Like having Alzi in 1984
Like being labeled a Brain Dead Affable Dunce
I liked the guy not his record
To the extent that the extra taxes will be paid by less than 50% of the electorate what does it matter what they think?
And since the more I am successful at increasing redistribution, the less likely I am to one day join the more heavily taxed minority myself, I have little reason to refrain from promoting redistribution. As my short sighted urge to redistribute (and increase my effective income by 10%) makes it less and less likely that I will one day swim in the prosperity pool, the more likely I am to urinate in a pool that looks like I’ll never swim in. A 1%-2% average annual growth will not affect me for couple of decades – or so I think. So alright, under slow growth the cure for cancer may be found in 2080 instead of 2060 but nobody will die from cancer in those 20 years. And even if they do, that is a small price for our kids to pay for compassion here and now! And if under slow growth the difference compounds to my children being only half as wealthy as they would have been under faster growth then again that is a small price for our kids to pay for compassion here and now!
2008 is the new 1984
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