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Progressively over the next decade, he agreed to packages that raised taxes. we had the bush tax cuts passed in 2001. we have large deficits now. the argument is republicans should agree to among other things tax increases that don't quite roll back the entire bush tax cut but begin to take care of the deficit some. they have a much more dogmatic stance on taxation than ronald reagan did. >> why aren't the democrats saying ronald reagan, your hero, not yours, but the republicans' hero, raised taxes on the job creators? >> i think they actually largely are. there was a "new york times" article ...

By today's republican party has gotten so out of whack that cantor's press secretary actually interrupts an interview with a major network, arguably one of the most watched shows of news on all of television. and he sits there and didn't say, hey, just hold off, back off here. i find that amazing. >> it was surprising i think, too, that cantor didn't have a stronger answer to that. let's talk about the myth making, right? the head of the reagan legacy project, the folks basically trying to name a schoolyard or post office or a tree or whatever in every county in america after ronald reagan is ...

Reagan passed a very large tax cut in 1981. that led to large deficits in 1982. progressively over the next decade, he agreed to packages that raised taxes. we had the bush tax cuts passed in 2001. we have large deficits now. the argument is republicans should agree to among other things tax increases that don't quite roll back the entire bush tax cut but begin to take care of the deficit some. they have a much more dogmatic stance on taxation than ronald reagan did. >> why aren't the democrats saying ronald reagan, your hero, not yours, but the republicans' hero, raised taxes on the job creat...

Progressively over the next decade, he agreed to packages that raised taxes. we had the bush tax cuts passed in 2001. we have large deficits now. the argument is republicans should agree to among other things tax increases that don't quite roll back the entire bush tax cut but begin to take care of the deficit some. they have a much more dogmatic stance on taxation than ronald reagan did. >> why aren't the democrats saying ronald reagan, your hero, not yours, but the republicans' hero, raised taxes on the job creators? >> i think they actually largely are. there was a "new york times" article ...

Reagan passed a very large tax cut in 1981. that led to large deficits in 1982. progressively over the next decade, he agreed to packages that raised taxes. we had the bush tax cuts passed in 2001. we have large deficits now. the argument is republicans should agree to among other things tax increases that don't quite roll back the entire bush tax cut but begin to take care of the deficit some. they have a much more dogmatic stance on taxation than ronald reagan did. >> why aren't the democrats saying ronald reagan, your hero, not yours, but the republicans' hero, raised taxes on the job creat...