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Reagan proved deficits don't matter.

— Dick Cheney

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Reagan didn't put anything off the table, if he felt it was for the good of the American people to tweak the tax system.

— Alan K. Simpson

The Reagan program is not working because the program is not fair - and, just as important, because the people themselves know it is not fair.

— Thomas P. O'Neill

Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.

— Austan Goolsbee

Reagan has turned America into a tax haven.

— John Updike

Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.

— George Osborne

As anyone who lived through the 1990s knows, nothing shrinks our deficits faster than a growing economy.

— Denis McDonough

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

— Christopher Hitchens

✗Opposing Perspectives

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

— Eugene Jarecki

Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded 'supply side' tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon. But pretty quickly conservatives discovered that deficits, when done correctly, did something really cool: deficits defunded the Left.

— Thomas Frank

Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

— Karl Rove