Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Bill Clinton reversed Reagan’s course, raising taxes on the wealthy, and lowering them for the working and middle classes. This produced the longest sustained economic expansion in American history. Importantly, it also produced budgetary surpluses allowing the government to begin paying down the crippling debt begun under Reagan. In 2000, Clinton’s last year, the surplus amounted to $236 billion. The forecast ten year surplus stood at $5.6 trillion. It was the last black ink America would see for decades, perhaps forever.


Clinton also gutted the military, the CIA, FBI, NSA and the State Dept as well as reform welfare to cut the spending. It just wasnt about raising taxes.