A Republican Finally Admitted Reagan Raised Taxes

The thing about Jon Stewart's interview of Republican Grover Norquist isn't that his make-believe journalism is actually much better than anything you'll see in the mainstream media, it's the fact that he finally got a Republican to admit that Reagan raised taxes.

Of course, as is always with everything in the Republican Fantasy World, Republicans like Norquist claim Reagan only raised taxes because he was tricked by the evil liberals.  But as Stewart makes note, how does that explain his 10 other tax increases that had nothing to do with Congress.

Not to mention, even with Reagan's numerous tax hikes he still ran massive annual budget deficits, which we are still paying for today.  Could you imagine how much bigger those deficits would have been had he not raised revenue 11 different times?  That's the other part of this equation Republicans refuse, tax cuts do not increase revenue.