Eric Cantor refuses to admit Reagan raised taxes

[Lions_fan]

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And you can hear Cantor's press secretary off camera flat out deny that Reagan raised taxes. A simple google search will turn up thousands of pages confirming Reagan raised taxes.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Ronald+Reagan+raised+taxes+12+times

[FreakinDJ]

1. What a Tool of the Wealthy Elite

[RKP5637]

2. These guys think the entire country is as stupid as the ones that elect them in their district.

[WingDinger]

7. Why wouldnt they, Fox News ISS their zeitgeist.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WingDinger/108

[RKP5637]

11. Yep, there's the root cause, Fox News, GOP TV, choice of the uninformed.

[think]

3. Cantor needs to be screened for compulsive lying disorder.

[Enrique]

4. the face of the 9%

9% approval rating I mean.

[CTyankee]

5. Cantor is an idiot trying this on the press that has the resources that Leslie Stahl has!

The Reagan clip is devastating!

Ok, Eric, you little shit, got a comeback for THAT?

I didn't think so...

[WingDinger]

8. He believes it. Fox says so.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Man, I wish more journalists would smack down liars on the spot like this.

[shraby]

9. Ever notice how Cantor and Ryan always give the

eyebrows up in the center for the poor me, I wouldn't tell a lie..even when I'm caught in it.
Most people have seen this on a youngster who got caught in the cookie jar. The wide eyed "who me?" look.

[annabanana]

10. liar liar pants on fire. . . .. It's gotten so bad that

even people who hardly EVER pay attention are getting the message.

[Angry Dragon]

12. He reminds me of a weasel

Eddie Haskell

[DeathToTheOil]

13. K'd & R'd

He's a True Believer!

[ScottLand]

14. OK, OK, he may have raised taxes, but he LOWERED them by raising them, eh, Eric?

Yeah, that's a BIG part of the RW mantra - Almighty Reagan NEVER raised taxes.

[Jack Rabbit]

15. Raising/cutting taxes is not a "principle"

It is a balancing act. Maybe Reagan didn't like it, but after his huge tax cut in his first year as president, he spent the next seven trying to make up for the excess of his initial budget proposal. At least he swallowed hard and admitted that's what he had to do.

What Cantor is doing is simply rewriting history. History has been rewritten ever since the Matinee Idol left office. He was an irresponsible president who tripled the national debt to give the rich a tax break so they would invest it. And invest it they did -- at Bloomingdale's and Tiffany's.

If all tax cuts were good, the Frat Boy would have been our greatest president. Hey, guys, why don't we just abolish taxes? Wouldn't that be best of all? Who needs schools? Why fix potholes in the roads? The market will solve everything. We don't need the government to fix potholes. We just need the market to produce and sell more tires.

[The Wizard]

18. According to Republican supply side dogma

tax cuts raise revenue. By that standard, eliminating all taxes would have the treasury awash in cash. And anyone believing that level of bullshit should not be allowed to drive on public highways paid for and maintained with tax money.
There's nothing more ignorant or cynical than the Republican voter.

[the Weird Liberal]

16. HAH.

Reagan was the ultimate Big Government tax-and-spender.

[Canuckistanian]

17. Reagan raised taxes 11 times

Cantor is an idiot.

[usrname]

19. This Cantor is a piece of shit

just like Greg Marmalard and Doug Niedermeyer from Animal House. Pompous, obtuse, elitist without the credibility, racist, and dumb as an ox.

[CatWoman]

20. I saw that Sunday night

what a fucking tool.

They lie so much, it's become some sort of bizarre reality for them.

[JHB]

21. Reagan got the top marginal tax rates on the highest incomes reduced...

...from 70% to 50% then to 28%.

That's all they (Cantor and his "job creator" backers) care about. As far as they are concerned, the rest just does not exist.

And the better for them that it does not exist, because real-life complexity would put a bump in the Fantasy Ron personality cult they have going there. When you ask yourself WWRD (what would Reagan do?), the answer MUST be cut taxes, don't compromise, and show'em who's boss. In all things.

[MannyGoldstein]

22. Awesome Video, Thanks

Bunch of jerks.

[trumad]

23. Actually Leslie was about to nail the shit out of him and his Press Secretarty saved his ass.

[thecrow]

24. K&R

I've been lurking the past few weeks... so I wanted to get a post in to declare I'm a fan of DU2
Not crazy about DU3, but it's growing on me a little. DU2 is more.... intimate

[wxgeek7]

25. How do people like him get elected?

I can hear the guy off camera say, "That's not true, I don't know about that statement".

WTF?! It's like common knowledge.

[NewJeffCT]

33. It's not common knowledge

to the Fox News crowd and those who listen to Limbaugh for their news.

[bluedave]

26. the man

is a puke.I just want to slap him every time I see his face.

[Madmiddle]

27. The worm

that hates anyone that doesn't give him money. Republican selfish and stupid, it all fits in describing this creepy bastard.

[Smilo]

28. I cringe when I see Cantor..

knowing he is out to be Speaker is definitely worrisome.

Of course, Cantor is typical of the FoxKoch sycophants who will say that the sky is green, grass blue and Reagan was the best president ever. Of course, Cantor is not speaking on behalf of the 1% - he is speaking on behalf of those that credit Reagan with their wealth and refuse to hand over 1 cent to those below them in the economic sphere.

Mussolini would be so proud of Cantor.

[Roy Rolling]

29. Newspeak of 2012

So the definition of "Compromise" is no longer "a settlement of differences by mutual conscessions". According to Cantor, "compromise" means giving up your principles.

It seems to me his fight should not be with the Democrats but with the Merriam Webster Dictionary.

[beac]

30. Eric Cantor, thirty-plus years of being a complete jackass:

I always wonder if he thinks dying his hair jet-black makes him Reaganesque....

[Politicalboi]

31. It's their fantasy

They can make up shit all they want.

[no_hypocrisy]

32. Cantor is not exactly a Yeshiva Boy . . . .

Let alone having sechel.

[cstanleytech]

34. Will he next refuse the existance of "gravity"? What about the existance of "oxygen"?

[Lysistrada]

35. He is a jerk...nt

[PatrynXX]

36. Well this would kinda be obvious that today Regan would be a Democrat

albeit a Ben Nelson Democrat, but a Democrat nonetheless

[mojowork_n]

37. What are the chances "Politifact" will ever pick this one up? n/t