Reagan taught us all too well to borrow and spend and ...
Utter nonsense. Complete rewriting of history by a believing lefty.
The congress under Reagan spent two dollars for every one dollar in new revenue that his tax cuts brought in. He fought them each year but they forced them through.
Sorry, Reagan was complicit in the borrow and spending. He cut taxes while Congress raised spending. He approved every single one of those annual budgets. Or did you think it was the speaker of the house who submitted and approved the budgets each year?
You are the one re-writing history. Yes, the tax and spend Democrat legislatures got their way with spending but didn’t get their way with taxing, and so we ended up with borrowing and spending. But don’t pretend that Reagan didn’t play his part. He most certainly did. Even while needed, he still raised defense spending very much when nobody in the Congress requested it. Oh, they all loved the defense spending because it stimulated their state economies — all they while they were screaming against those spending increases.
But Reagan was no innocent little lamb slashing costs at every turn and being dragged kicking and screaming to approve every one of the 8 budgets he signed.
They spent. He cut taxes. He borrowed to pay for the spending. End of story. Don’t ignore those facts.