To his credit, it wasn’t Eric Cantor making the contention on 60 Minutes that Ronald Reagan never raised taxes (just that he “never compromised his principles”, whatever that means), but his off-screen press secretary (you can skip ahead to that part, if you’d like), but it’s still amusing to see today’s Republicans engage in a war of cognitive dissonance attempting to cast their favorite president ever as an constant in the war against taxation when the actual historical record doesn’t match up.

This article appears in Dec 29, 2011 – Jan 4, 2012.

The editor of the Tucson Weekly. I have no idea how I got here.

4 replies on “Repeating That Reagan Never Raised Taxes Doesn’t Make It True”

  3. Hey Luther, I wasn’t even alive when President Reagan was in office, so Reagan fan; hardly. That not withstanding, it doesn’t take a genius to see that Dan Gibson is a second rate writer, a narrow minded hack, and a judgmental jerk. I continue to read his tripe and marvel that TW actually pays this guy to write for them. I’m only 16 and I can write a heck of a lot better than Gibson. Maybe I should ask TW for a job.

  4. Missing: I’d love to run some of your blog posts. Email me. You won’t get paid (I guess you have to be a no-talent hack for that honor), but you can show off your superior skills, at least.

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