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Not ignored, but the individual tax was 9.9% of GDP at the end of Clinton's era. That's FAR higher than where it began. I hope you're not asserting he didn't REALLY raise taxes. He did, jobs and the economy boomed.

You think that the the economy was because of a tax hike? No. Clinton enjoyed a good economy because of policy put into place by not only Ronald Reagan, but because of bubbles that Clinton created like his changes to the CRA that GW Bush had the unfortunate timing to follow, and be blamed for the results of...

Then there were also the republicans in the congress that Clinton realized that he had to work with to get anything done, and ended up adopting many republican ideas in his second term that helped the country. Be nice to have that now wouldn't it? Maybe after November.

Every President since forever has reduced so-called "deficits" by the SS surplus, so it's as correct to say Clinton 'balanced' the budget as it was to reduce the Bush era deficits by the Surplus. Both aren't correct, but I doubt you corrected any GOPers during the Bush era when they far understated deficits. Maybe I'm wrong....

Two things here...Obama came in increasing deficits by 30% or better, then when congress reals it back in (to the objection of liberals) with sequester, he claims that he is reducing deficits...It's a lie. Second, this automatic knee jerk of liberals to excuse every lie, or misdeed that happens today by immediately pointing to the past and what people may, or may not have objected to is immature, and dishonest. I doubt that any person on this board would accept that kind of excuse from their children, so why is it acceptable to use it for this President...?

Nothing new to me in that story. SS has reduced deficits for 30 years, and now we need to cut it SS because awful DEFICITS AND DEBT!!, and no one, including way to darn many in the democratic party, wants to make good on the IOUs. Typical. Never a bad reason to cut taxes on the plutocrats, never a bad reason to cut benefits for the proles.

So I take it by your assertion that SS reduces deficit, that you believe that SS is really nothing more than a tax to use as government sees fit? This myth of a "lock box" is just that, another lie.
 
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Not ignored, but the individual tax was 9.9% of GDP at the end of Clinton's era. That's FAR higher than where it began. I hope you're not asserting he didn't REALLY raise taxes. He did, jobs and the economy boomed.



Every President since forever has reduced so-called "deficits" by the SS surplus, so it's as correct to say Clinton 'balanced' the budget as it was to reduce the Bush era deficits by the Surplus. Both aren't correct, but I doubt you corrected any GOPers during the Bush era when they far understated deficits. Maybe I'm wrong....



Nothing new to me in that story. SS has reduced deficits for 30 years, and now we need to cut it SS because awful DEFICITS AND DEBT!!, and no one, including way to darn many in the democratic party, wants to make good on the IOUs. Typical. Never a bad reason to cut taxes on the plutocrats, never a bad reason to cut benefits for the proles.

Income taxes as a percentage of GDP doesn't pay the debt service but rather actual dollars created and Reagan inherited a double dip recession, Clinton didn't. Never said Reagan didn't raise taxes but rather didn't raise INCOME TAXES. You don't seem to understand what your taxes actually fund and the difference between income taxes and use taxes

You are indeed wrong as I showed you by the links, there was no Clinton surplus and every year the debt increased and if there was a surplus the debt wouldn't increase. Debt=Public debt PLUS intergovernment holdings.

So you don't have any problem with being forced to contribute to SS and Medicare only to have those contributions spent on something other than SS and Medicare? Sounds like a big Ponzi scheme to me. What happened to the Al Gore Lock box?

Seems that liberals have no problem with a 3.9 trillion dollar Federal Govt.
 
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You think that the the economy was because of a tax hike? No. Clinton enjoyed a good economy because of policy put into place by not only Ronald Reagan, but because of bubbles that Clinton created like his changes to the CRA that GW Bush had the unfortunate timing to follow, and be blamed for the results of...

Beautiful stuff there. All the good that happened under Clinton was because of Reagan. The housing crisis was obviously Clinton's fault. Are you serious?

But the point about taxes is fairly simple. Right wingers constantly talk about the Reagan tax cuts and the wonderful prosperity that followed. OK, we did have several good years! It's in the data, no need to say, well they weren't all that good. They were. But I don't think the prosperity can be tied exclusively or primarily to the tax cuts because we've had lots of good years in this country with high tax rates, low tax rates, following tax rate decreases and tax rate decreases. Taxes are one, fairly minor, factor among dozens of things that drive the U.S. economy. Proof enough of this is the performance of the economy following Clinton's tax increases. If taxes were the key factor, we should have seen terrible years in the late 1990s. We didn't - we created a ton of jobs, stock market boomed, etc. So the highest tax burden as a share of GDP in many decades did not cause that boom.

Then there were also the republicans in the congress that Clinton realized that he had to work with to get anything done, and ended up adopting many republican ideas in his second term that helped the country. Be nice to have that now wouldn't it? Maybe after November.

OK, your opinion is noted. All the good is from GOPers, all the bad from democrats. I got the picture.

Two things here...Obama came in increasing deficits by 30% or better, then when congress reals it back in (to the objection of liberals) with sequester, he claims that he is reducing deficits...It's a lie. Second, this automatic knee jerk of liberals to excuse every lie, or misdeed that happens today by immediately pointing to the past and what people may, or may not have objected to is immature, and dishonest. I doubt that any person on this board would accept that kind of excuse from their children, so why is it acceptable to use it for this President...?

You've missed a lot of discussion. I acknowledge that Clinton didn't 'balance' the budget. But if democrats make that claim, they're just using the SAME STANDARD every POTUS since Reagan has used to measure deficits, and balance or non-balanced budgets. They have ALL used the SS surplus to communicate the size of the deficit, so you can't now claim that because the standard used by everyone is somehow offensive to the discourse only because that common measure reveals a 'surplus.' It's a minor point, and I care little about it.

So I take it by your assertion that SS reduces deficit, that you believe that SS is really nothing more than a tax to use as government sees fit? This myth of a "lock box" is just that, another lie.

No, that's not what I think. The SS surpluses didn't reduce the operating deficit, but politicians in both parties used that surplus to reduce REPORTED deficits. And IMO the debt owed to the SS system is as valid as Treasuries held by the public. I think now that we're having to pay down $2.5 TRILLION of that debt in the next few decades the the political system (with support of both parties) will try like heck to disregard that debt.
 
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Income taxes as a percentage of GDP doesn't pay the debt service but rather actual dollars created and Reagan inherited a double dip recession, Clinton didn't. Never said Reagan didn't raise taxes but rather didn't raise INCOME TAXES. You don't seem to understand what your taxes actually fund and the difference between income taxes and use taxes

Sure he raised income taxes, but he didn't raise marginal rates.

You are indeed wrong as I showed you by the links, there was no Clinton surplus and every year the debt increased and if there was a surplus the debt wouldn't increase. Debt=Public debt PLUS intergovernment holdings.

I got it, really. But by the same measuring stick used by Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, Clinton and Obama, he produced the only 'surplus.' You're objecting to him using the same standard everyone's used for decades, which is technically correct of course.

So you don't have any problem with being forced to contribute to SS and Medicare only to have those contributions spent on something other than SS and Medicare? Sounds like a big Ponzi scheme to me. What happened to the Al Gore Lock box?

Seems that liberals have no problem with a 3.9 trillion dollar Federal Govt.

Yes, I object to using SS to reduce the deficit, then when we draw on the surplus, treat it like we're in a damn crisis. We're in a crisis because SS was used to hide the real effect of decades of taxes way too low to fund government. SS hid $2.5T in actual deficits.

And I have a problem with a $3.9T federal government, but we probably disagree in some cases about how to make it smaller.
 
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Sure he raised income taxes, but he didn't raise marginal rates.



I got it, really. But by the same measuring stick used by Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, Clinton and Obama, he produced the only 'surplus.' You're objecting to him using the same standard everyone's used for decades, which is technically correct of course.



Yes, I object to using SS to reduce the deficit, then when we draw on the surplus, treat it like we're in a damn crisis. We're in a crisis because SS was used to hide the real effect of decades of taxes way too low to fund government. SS hid $2.5T in actual deficits.

And I have a problem with a $3.9T federal government, but we probably disagree in some cases about how to make it smaller.

He raised income tax REVENUE, not income taxes. 17 million new taxpayers created more govt. revenue and you cannot prove that it wasn't because of the tax cuts. You simply don't understand what taxes were raised and who paid them. you don't seem to comprehend the value of economic growth and the way to increase economic activity, Reagan did

Taxes too low? How much exactly do you believe a taxpayer should pay in Federal, State, and local taxes? What percentage of their income?

By the way do you know who created the sub prime mortgages?
 
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He raised income tax REVENUE, not income taxes. 17 million new taxpayers created more govt. revenue and you cannot prove that it wasn't because of the tax cuts. You simply don't understand what taxes were raised and who paid them. you don't seem to comprehend the value of economic growth and the way to increase economic activity, Reagan did

Goodness, he signed bills that had the intended effect and did increase the revenue collected by government without regard to economic growth. Those are tax increases. Just one example - he changed depreciation rules from ACRS to MACRS. That lengthened the depreciation term and raised taxes on everyone buying any type of depreciable asset. There isn't any dispute about that, and it had nothing to do with economic growth, because THAT change was a disincentive to invest in property and equipment.

Taxes too low? How much exactly do you believe a taxpayer should pay in Federal, State, and local taxes? What percentage of their income?

Too low to support the spending that occurred. If you want to argue that spending was too high, and taxes juuuussttt right, fine. But spending was NOT cut and the use of SS to offset deficits in part allowed spending to be too high. Same result, different side of the income statement.

By the way do you know who created the sub prime mortgages?

I'm not going to get into that here, but the short answer is people in both parties over a period of a couple decades. Sheesh, anyone who wants to point to Clinton, and ignore the GOP's role, is an ignoramus.
 
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Good for them; I like the union decision even better.[/QU

Short-term win for conservatives and the GOP, but long-term win for the Democrats as more and more women leave the GOP. The anti-abortion law passed by the legislature in Missouri vetoed by the Governor is another example of this war that the GOP and conservatives are waging on women. It's hard to understand how the GOP is missing the demographic changes that are taking place in this country. Gerrymandering and voter suppression is all it has left.
 
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JasperL;1063487291]Goodness, he signed bills that had the intended effect and did increase the revenue collected by government without regard to economic growth. Those are tax increases. Just one example - he changed depreciation rules from ACRS to MACRS. That lengthened the depreciation term and raised taxes on everyone buying any type of depreciable asset. There isn't any dispute about that, and it had nothing to do with economic growth, because THAT change was a disincentive to invest in property and equipment.

Again, you show that this is a waste of time, it is waste of time for me to explain to you the benefits of you keeping more of what you earn. I don't have any idea why I continue to do that. You want to pay more in taxes, do so, send more into the govt. whatever you want. Why don't you do that? I am waiting for you to prove that the 17 million jobs created weren't the result of increased economic activity due to those tax cuts?


Too low to support the spending that occurred. If you want to argue that spending was too high, and taxes juuuussttt right, fine. But spending was NOT cut and the use of SS to offset deficits in part allowed spending to be too high. Same result, different side of the income statement.


Got it, so because we spend too much we need higher taxes? Now that is interesting logic. So because the govt. continues to spend, waste our tax dollars, and drive up debt you want to give them more money and power? Still waiting for what the percentage of income taxpayers should pay in Federal, State, and Local taxes?


I'm not going to get into that here, but the short answer is people in both parties over a period of a couple decades. Sheesh, anyone who wants to point to Clinton, and ignore the GOP's role, is an ignoramus.

Your personal passion for liberal economic policy is incredible and misguided. I asked a question because you want to blame Bush for the housing bubble and ignore one of the major causes, the sub prime loans none of which were issued by Bush. The answer to the question is Clinton in 1993 and to simply blame Bush ignores who else was involved in creating that bubble. Fact, there is plenty of blame to go around and Clinton deserves some of it.
 
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Again, you show that this is a waste of time, it is waste of time for me to explain to you the benefits of you keeping more of what you earn. I don't have any idea why I continue to do that. You want to pay more in taxes, do so, send more into the govt. whatever you want. Why don't you do that? I am waiting for you to prove that the 17 million jobs created weren't the result of increased economic activity due to those tax cuts?

You said Reagan didn't raise income taxes. I responded to that point - he DID raise them.

And I can no more "prove" the tax cuts did NOT create 17 million jobs than you can prove they DID. Lots of academics look at taxes and jobs, I've read maybe 20 papers on that topic. Most find taxes have a small but real effect. So if that research is correct, some of those jobs were created because of lower taxes, some were due to deficit spending, most had nothing to do with either and were a function of the economy, perhaps stable interest rates, normal growth, etc.

Got it, so because we spend too much we need higher taxes? Now that is interesting logic. So because the govt. continues to spend, waste our tax dollars, and drive up debt you want to give them more money and power? Still waiting for what the percentage of income taxpayers should pay in Federal, State, and Local taxes?

If you want me to put it succinctly, if we're going to spend, tax to pay for spending. So tax and spend is FAR preferable to cut taxes, borrow the shortfall, and spend more - which is the GOP record, what's in the data.

Your personal passion for liberal economic policy is incredible and misguided. I asked a question because you want to blame Bush for the housing bubble and ignore one of the major causes, the sub prime loans none of which were issued by Bush. The answer to the question is Clinton in 1993 and to simply blame Bush ignores who else was involved in creating that bubble. Fact, there is plenty of blame to go around and Clinton deserves some of it.

I said this, "the short answer is people in both parties over a period of a couple decades." Does that look like someone who is ignoring Clinton's role? And there is nothing wrong with the idea of sub prime loans. They were to risky borrowers, high interest rates, that's how it should be. The problem in a nutshell was dog crap sub prime was rated AAA, backed by trillions in derivatives, and sold with a stated risk profile equal to U.S. f'ing Treasuries. Prior to the bubble, dog crap was rated dog crap and investors behaved accordingly.
 
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asperL;1063487849]You said Reagan didn't raise income taxes. I responded to that point - he DID raise them.

Just as I thought, you have no idea what your taxes fund or even what they are. Reagan did not raise FEDERAL INCOME TAXES. He cut them three years in a row

And I can no more "prove" the tax cuts did NOT create 17 million jobs than you can prove they DID. Lots of academics look at taxes and jobs, I've read maybe 20 papers on that topic. Most find taxes have a small but real effect. So if that research is correct, some of those jobs were created because of lower taxes, some were due to deficit spending, most had nothing to do with either and were a function of the economy, perhaps stable interest rates, normal growth, etc.

Yes, I can because that is exactly what happened, the results are at BLS.gov You seem to put a lot of faith in textbooks and little in understanding the U.S. economy which is consumer driven. Hell, you don't even seem to know what you do with more money in your paycheck and how that multiplied by the labor force affects economic activity



If you want me to put it succinctly, if we're going to spend, tax to pay for spending. So tax and spend is FAR preferable to cut taxes, borrow the shortfall, and spend more - which is the GOP record, what's in the data.

We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem, Reagan increased FIT revenue by 60% with three tax cuts, and Bush did the same thing. Interesting how that reality is ignored by the left.

I said this, "the short answer is people in both parties over a period of a couple decades." Does that look like someone who is ignoring Clinton's role? And there is nothing wrong with the idea of sub prime loans. They were to risky borrowers, high interest rates, that's how it should be. The problem in a nutshell was dog crap sub prime was rated AAA, backed by trillions in derivatives, and sold with a stated risk profile equal to U.S. f'ing Treasuries. Prior to the bubble, dog crap was rated dog crap and investors behaved accordingly
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Good, many liberals blame it all on Bush
 
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Just as I thought, you have no idea what your taxes fund or even what they are. Reagan did not raise FEDERAL INCOME TAXES. He cut them three years in a row

Your facts are different than mine. He had the big tax cut the first year, and then raised taxes every year after that. TRA 86 cut marginal rates, but was a net tax increase.

Yes, I can because that is exactly what happened, the results are at BLS.gov You seem to put a lot of faith in textbooks and little in understanding the U.S. economy which is consumer driven. Hell, you don't even seem to know what you do with more money in your paycheck and how that multiplied by the labor force affects economic activity

Correlation =/= causation. If taxes were the only thing that mattered, we'd all have to believe two things:

1) Reagan cut taxes, the economy created 17 million jobs, and therefore all job gains were as a result of Reagan's tax cut.
2) Clinton raised taxes, over the next 8 years the economy created 22 million jobs, and those job gains were the result of Clinton's tax increases.

And that above is exactly why academics study this stuff, and why the general findings are that taxes matter, tax cuts do increase employment in most cases, but the effect is small and generally overwhelmed by other factors - general trends, interest rates, increasing productivity, exchange rates, population growth, education levels, wage trends, etc..............

Finally, I get multipliers. There are multipliers with government spending and multipliers with tax cuts.

We have a spending problem, not a revenue problem, Reagan increased FIT revenue by 60% with three tax cuts, and Bush did the same thing. Interesting how that reality is ignored by the left.
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I guess I'll have to start a thread so we can bring some facts to this conversation. That's a HUGE oversimplification of what happened. And whether spending should be higher or lower is a preference.
 
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JasperL;1063490419]Your facts are different than mine. He had the big tax cut the first year, and then raised taxes every year after that. TRA 86 cut marginal rates, but was a net tax increase.

Wow, again you cannot admit that you are wrong, Reagan cut FEDERAL INCOME TAXES 3 years in a row and there was NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX increase at any time during the Reagan term. Not sure where you get your information but I can guess. You simply are wrong. Please educate yourself on what taxes you pay and what those taxes fund. Big govt. liberals always ignore the various taxes and believe in the unified budget where all tax dollars go into a big pot.



Correlation =/= causation. If taxes were the only thing that mattered, we'd all have to believe two things:

1) Reagan cut taxes, the economy created 17 million jobs, and therefore all job gains were as a result of Reagan's tax cut.
2) Clinton raised taxes, over the next 8 years the economy created 22 million jobs, and those job gains were the result of Clinton's tax increases.

And that above is exactly why academics study this stuff, and why the general findings are that taxes matter, tax cuts do increase employment in most cases, but the effect is small and generally overwhelmed by other factors - general trends, interest rates, increasing productivity, exchange rates, population growth, education levels, wage trends, etc..............

Finally, I get multipliers. There are multipliers with government spending and multipliers with tax cuts.

Typical liberal argument from someone who buys the big govt. theory. The reality is we had 17 million jobs created, 60% increase in FIT revenue, and a doubling of the GDP after the tax cuts. You choose to believe that the tax cuts didn't do that but cannot prove it which is more proof that you have no idea as to the components of GDP and that they contribute.

By the way, please show me the BLS data that shows Clinton created 22 million jobs? I anxiously await your answer


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I guess I'll have to start a thread so we can bring some facts to this conversation. That's a HUGE oversimplification of what happened. And whether spending should be higher or lower is a preference.

That ought to go into the fiction category because that is what it will be. Obviously you weren't around during the Reagan years and have no idea what happened but buy what you are told. The reality is a different issue and led to the greatest landslide electoral victory in history in 1984
 
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Wow, again you cannot admit that you are wrong, Reagan cut FEDERAL INCOME TAXES 3 years in a row and there was NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX increase at any time during the Reagan term. Not sure where you get your information but I can guess. You simply are wrong. Please educate yourself on what taxes you pay and what those taxes fund. Big govt. liberals always ignore the various taxes and believe in the unified budget where all tax dollars go into a big pot.

I get my information from the fact that I do taxes for a living and I follow Federal income tax developments, and have read dozens of academic papers on tax levels. I have no idea what data you're using but it's just not accurate. Which three years in a row did Reagan cut taxes?

Typical liberal argument from someone who buys the big govt. theory. The reality is we had 17 million jobs created, 60% increase in FIT revenue, and a doubling of the GDP after the tax cuts. You choose to believe that the tax cuts didn't do that but cannot prove it which is more proof that you have no idea as to the components of GDP and that they contribute.

If you think that taxes are the only thing that matter to economic growth, we really can't have a debate.

- Reagan CUT taxes, and the economy boomed.
- Clinton RAISED taxes and the economy boomed.

So I guess taxes only matter when they're cut, but when taxes increase and the economy booms, it's GOP policies other than taxes that caused those job gains?

By the way, please show me the BLS data that shows Clinton created 22 million jobs? I anxiously await your answer

Now you're just nit picking. Here's an annual table Employment status of the civilian noninstitutional population, 1943 to date

According to this, average annual jobs were as follows:

1981 - 100,397
1988 - 114,968
New jobs - 14,571

1993 - 120,259
2000 - 136,891
New jobs 16,632

According to Forbes, Reagan created 16.1 million and Clinton 22.7 million. Neither source supports your 17 million number. I don't care to spend the time to reconcile the different figures, but if you want to do so knock yourself out.

The actual number isn't the relevant point. By any measure job creation during the Clinton years was equivalent to or exceeded job creation during the Reagan years. What's also true is taxes during the Clinton era INCREASED. So if you want to attribute the jobs gained during the Reagan years to tax cuts, you have to explain why MORE jobs were created in the Clinton years with far HIGHER tax burdens and rates. You can't do that, because it's not actually a question with an answer other than, "Lots of stuff, including taxes, affects jobs and it's impossible to untangle all those factors. All anyone can do is make educated guesses."

That ought to go into the fiction category because that is what it will be. Obviously you weren't around during the Reagan years and have no idea what happened but buy what you are told. The reality is a different issue and led to the greatest landslide electoral victory in history in 1984

Like I said, another thread.
 
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JasperL;1063490603]I get my information from the fact that I do taxes for a living and I follow Federal income tax developments, and have read dozens of academic papers on tax levels. I have no idea what data you're using but it's just not accurate. Which three years in a row did Reagan cut taxes?

Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



If you think that taxes are the only thing that matter to economic growth, we really can't have a debate.

- Reagan CUT taxes, and the economy boomed.
- Clinton RAISED taxes and the economy boomed.

Clinton took over an economy that had 4+% economic growth the last quarter of 1992 and his tax increase gave us a GOP Congress which eliminated many of those taxes and led to the implementation of the Tax Cut of 1997 Which conveniently you forgot probably because you were too young and not doing taxes for a living. Clinton signed much of the Contract with America and the economic boom we had we in conjunction with working with a Republican Congress and implementing lower taxes on businesses to promote growth.

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o I guess taxes only matter when they're cut, but when taxes increase and the economy booms, it's GOP policies other than taxes that caused those job gains?

Putting money into the hands of the American taxpayers is never a bad idea. Your marriage to the Democrat rhetoric is quite interesting yet misguided. It is the American taxpayers that will stimulate and grow the U.S. economy, not the American govt.


Now you're just nit picking. Here's an annual table Employment status of the civilian noninstitutional population, 1943 to date

According to this, average annual jobs were as follows:

1981 - 100,397
1988 - 114,968
New jobs - 14,571

1993 - 120,259
2000 - 136,891
New jobs 16,632

According to Forbes, Reagan created 16.1 million and Clinton 22.7 million. Neither source supports your 17 million number. I don't care to spend the time to reconcile the different figures, but if you want to do so knock yourself out.

The actual number isn't the relevant point. By any measure job creation during the Clinton years was equivalent to or exceeded job creation during the Reagan years. What's also true is taxes during the Clinton era INCREASED. So if you want to attribute the jobs gained during the Reagan years to tax cuts, you have to explain why MORE jobs were created in the Clinton years with far HIGHER tax burdens and rates. You can't do that, because it's not actually a question with an answer other than, "Lots of stuff, including taxes, affects jobs and it's impossible to untangle all those factors. All anyone can do is make educated guesses."

OF course the number is relevant, you lied about the 22 million jobs and it isn't relevant to you because it is an exaggeration. It is also ignored that Clinton didn't inherit a recession, Reagan did, a worse recession than the 2007-09 recession because that recession was compounded by high inflation and a high misery index

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
Original Data Value

Series Id: LNS12000000
Seasonally Adjusted
Series title: (Seas) Employment Level
Labor force status: Employed
Type of data: Number in thousands
Age: 16 years and over
Years: 1980 to 2014

Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1980 99879 99995 99713 99233 98945 98682 98796 98824 99077 99317 99545 99634
1981 99955 100191 100571 101056 101048 100298 100693 100689 100064 100378 100207 99645
1982 99692 99762 99672 99576 100116 99543 99493 99633 99504 99215 99112 99032
1983 99161 99089 99179 99560 99642 100633 101208 101608 102016 102039 102729 102996
1984 103201 103824 103967 104336 105193 105591 105435 105163 105490 105638 105972 106223
1985 106302 106555 106989 106936 106932 106505 106807 107095 107657 107847 108007 108216
1986 108887 108480 108837 108952 109089 109576 109810 110015 110085 110273 110475 110728
1987 110953 111257 111408 111794 112434 112246 112634 113057 112909 113282 113505 113793
1988 114016 114227 114037 114650 114292 114927 115060 115282 115356 115638 116100 116104
1989 116708 116776 117022 117097 117099 117418 117472 117655 117354 117581 117912 117830
1990 119081 119059 119203 118852 119151 118983 118810 118802 118524 118536 118306 118241
1991 117940 117755 117652 118109 117440 117639 117568 117484 117928 117800 117770 117466
1992 117978 117753 118144 118426 118375 118419 118713 118826 118720 118628 118876 118997
1993 119075 119275 119542 119474 120115 120290 120467 120856 120554 120823 121169 121464
1994 121966 122086 121930 122290 122864 122634 122706 123342 123687 124112 124516 124721
1995 124663 124928 124955 124945 124421 124522 124816 124852 125133 125388 125188 125088
1996 125125 125639 125862 125994 126244 126602 126947 127172 127536 127890 127771 127860
1997 128298 128298 128891 129143 129464 129412 129822 130010 130019 130179 130653 130679
1998 130726 130807 130814 131209 131325 131244 131329 131390 131986 131999 132280 132602
1999 133027 132856 132947 132955 133311 133378 133414 133591 133707 133993 134309 134523
2000 136559 136598 136701 137270 136630 136940 136531 136662 136893 137088 137322 137614
2001 137778 137612 137783 137299 137092 136873 137071 136241 136846 136392 136238 136047
 
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