Bush-Reagan Debate 1980 on Taxes

Some of the best YouTube videos are the ones you find when you are looking for something else.

And I think this is a pretty good one for three reasons. 

First, how great is it to see this piece of history?  Second, it highlights the argument over tax cuts as a means of growing the economy and creating jobs; we now know the answer.  Third, at the start Howard K. Smith notes that Bush had just won Pennsylvania, yet we know who won the nominiation — how crazy are we possibly to declare the race over early in the process?

Money quote from Reagan at 7:55:

“Government does not tax to get the money it needs, government always needs the money it gets.”

Tags: George W. Bush, Reagan, Taxes

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