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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Deficits and Canada
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Date: Mon, 30-Jul-84 17:14:48 EDT
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T.C.Wheeler says:
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Just one small correction to Martin's article.  The House of
Representatives, democratically controled for over twenty years,
is the place where the final budget is decided.  IF the
democrats were so all fired, dead-set against deficit spending,
they had every chance in the world to change the fact.  Instead,
they managed to load the budget with all kinds of schemes and
spending items so that the true budget proposed by Reagan was
inflated just to please themselves.  Then they had the gall to
point to the White House as the reason for the deficits.
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So the reason that the Carter deficits declined from those of the
previous Republican Administration was a Democratic plot to
make the next Republican Administration look bad?  Interesting theory,
that.  But they could have done it without tripling the previous
record deficit, if all they wanted was to make Reagan look bad!!

I suspect that the tenant of the White House might have had
just a leetle bit to do with it ... No? Oh well, logic never
gets one very far on this net.
-- 

Martin Taylor
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