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Yes, we were. But by 1988 Rush Limbaugh was on the air, some of the tax increases didn’t phase in for a few years, and all the media was basically on the Republican side. The giant corporations had just gotten the largest tax break in the history of the world and so they weren’t criticizing Reagan at all. Including the giant news corporations.

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Yeah. 'Splain that "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" thing, again? Always that other kind of folks not up to pulling hard enough, and why do I owe them? Yada Yada. My faint glimmer of hope is that the meme of rich/fair share is just peeping over the threshold of cultural consciousness???

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