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To: oh8eleven
Reagan Would Not Repeat Amnesty Mistakeby Edwin Meese III

In retrospect, given the results, don't you think Reagan's "one-time" amnesty was a mistake?

75 posted on 12/01/2011 7:39:24 AM PST by kabar
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To: kabar; oh8eleven
In retrospect, given the results, don't you think Reagan's "one-time" amnesty was a mistake?

Hell yes I do. Also signing a tax bill that trusted congress to keep their side of the bargain on spending cuts.

77 posted on 12/01/2011 7:59:21 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Budget sins can be fixed. Amnesty is irreversible.)
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RR never said it was a mistake, nor his multiple tax increases. I’ll take his silence as his word, not Meese’s.


78 posted on 12/01/2011 8:13:52 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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