No matter how you parse this, Obama's tax message was right out of the Gipper's playbook. It's hard to understand why McCain and Company couldn't see it.
They didn't see it because it wasn't there. The assertion of your post above is an amazing fantasy of an uneducated imagination.
When Reagan came into office in 1981, the top marginal personal income tax rate was 70%. As he had pledged, the Economic Recovery Act of 1981 cut rates across the board, the top rate being cut from 70% to 50%. In his second term, the 1986 Reform Act cut the top rate from 50% to 28%. In both cases, the "rich" got the biggest cuts because the rates at the top end were so steep. Sadly, the 28% rate never fully phased in, a decision that cost Bush Sr. the White House (the Klinton campaign ran Bush's famous quote "Read my lips - no new taxes" again and again).
Obama has pledged the exact opposite of what Reagan did - an increase in taxes on the "rich", and a cut for the "middle class". His campaign rhetoric was an age-old regurgitated marxist tactic - promising to steal from the rich to buy votes from the peasants. The assertion that "Obama's tax message was right out of the Gipper's playbook" is one of the most outrageous, ignorant, and partisan lies I've ever heard.
