What would occur with the ERTA was a substantial deficit. This deficit was not the intent of Reagan. Reagan's intent was that the tax cuts would allow the public to have more money. This additional money which would have other

Later on Stockman revealed his secret to journalist William Greider. By him doing so after the fact, and owning up to his wrongdoing is in no way redeeming. It reminds me of when Robert S. MacNamara claimed that in retrospect he was wrong in sending all of those troops to fight in Vietnam. Although the results of Stockman's actions did not cause the death of thousands of young men and women, he in a sense did the same thing by claiming he was wrong after the fact.

Although Stockman's intentions for a balanced budget were good, what he did betrayed Reagan and the public. He never had the authority to with hold such pertinent information. If his intents were to maintain a balanced budget, why would he devise a plan for such high tax cuts which would create the most unbalance budget our economy has seen. It seems as if this overly intelligent scholar was attempting to achieve a task that was way out of his power to

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