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In the OP, yes. To account for inflation, you have to look at the debt to GDP ratio as the standard of measure. I did it in a follow-on post: There ya go. I accounted for inflation....

By lowering the marginal tax on higher income brackets and raising them on the lower income brackets. By relying more heavily on payroll tax and new investment tax for revenue than on taxes on higher earners and capital gains (which he subsequently raised back up to 28% after cutting them to 20%). ...

Hey I'll be the first to admit numbers can be used in basically any way that suits your needs. The OP is a prime example of that. The point is that anecdotes are not an effective form of debate when talking about something like a President's success....

Not in the post that I responded to, you didn't. You used his third fiscal year to define what he "turned over" to Reagan. That was dishonest on two counts but, as I said, better then clem and crimson. Here, since you're busy waiting until I get to your attempt at a rebuttal and shred it, refute ...

That, he will not do. He has already counted himself out. He's jut here to jeer from the cheap seats....

I'm not suing 1 year to describe Carter's economy, I used his entire Presidency. Do please try to keep up....

I'll go peek, chicken lips - but I already know you played cook-the-books by two facts: 1. You're using 1 year to describe Carter's economy, and 2. It wasn't his last year in office - it was the election years when Reagan was never president - the year Carter made his budget two months before the ...

Not throwing rocks here either. IN my corporate days, I have seen many an exec on the way out due to failure try to claim success with numbers. Only numbers that matter are bottom line numbers. Given enough google time, one can contradict any number or graph posted on this forum, but it never cha...

So, nothin then? Thanks. Ctiminy. That's two who cannot refute an iota of my thesis, hiding behind vaguely implied anecdotal evidence which he hasn't even the temerity to harrumph into a fully formed lie. Well done - two down. DAMIT! I had grown fond of this lantern! ANGRY FACE EMOTICON!...

I didn't need to make a claim that your source was partisan, I used your own source to kick your *** with the facts. Your link shows that Carter took an economy growing at over 5%, and handed it off at -0.2% Reagan took that -0.2% and left it at 4.2%....