Quote Originally Posted by stephen
lol, STOP READING BLOG SITES, THEY'RE TELLING YOU WRONG!!!! RESEARCH THE 97TH 98TH 99TH AND 100TH CONGRESS.

pulled from this link:

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/his...s/partydiv.htm

97th Congress (1981-1983)

Majority Party: Republican (53 seats)

Minority Party: Democrat (46 seats)

Other Parties: 1 Independent

Total Seats: 100

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98th Congress (1983-1985)

Majority Party: Republican (54 seats)

Minority Party: Democrat (46 seats)

Other Parties: 0

Total Seats: 100

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99th Congress (1985-1987)

Majority Party: Republican (53 seats)

Minority Party: Democrat (47 seats)

Other Parties: 0

Total Seats: 100

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100th Congress (1987-1989)

Majority Party: Democrat (55 seats)

Minority Party: Republican (45 seats)

Other Parties: 0

Total Seats: 100

since you want to point partisan fingers...note the year when reagan's congress was majority democrat...that's the 100th (87 - 89). now look at the chart that 1sicklex put up...do you see the last two red bars under reagan? notice how drastically the budget deficit dropped??? yeeeaaah...that'd be the years he picked up a democratic congress...

You clearly do not know how Congress works.

It isn't "Congress" as a whole which provides tax bills. It's the House of Representatives. The House is the only political body which can bring a tax bill to vote in the Senate, and then on to the POTUS's desk. You posted Senate seats.

If the House is Democrat, what we get vis a vis tax policy will be the result of Democrat policy. It was a tremendous coup for Reagan to get his massive income tax cuts through the US House in the 1980's.

It was only because of what are called "boll weevil" Democrats that Reagan even had discourse with Dems in the House, but that didn't stop Reagan from being fooled with their promises of spending cuts. These "boll weevils" were socially conservative and economically liberal, and those promised spending cuts didn't happen. They did, however, support Reagan initiatives regarding social policy, as they were likewise conservative.

Cleverly, and as a result of House Dem promises to that end, Reagan supported bills with bool weevil tax plans with Senate Republicans.

Nonetheless, the majority of Reagan's overall tax plans made it through, and as such, the largest sustained economic expansion in our nation's history.