claim: after reagan took office, "we didn't raise taxes and we didn't cut entitlements. what we did was we cut taxes."
author: john mccain
evidence_1: oct 1, 2017 ... but beyond that, they had to make assumptions because we didn't put any in the  ... it's impossible to do what the national tax center just did. ... but if the middle  income person is getting a $600 tax cut and the top 1 ... in fact, they were  accusing it of raising the taxes on the wealthy. ... the left are truly evil.
evidence_2: jun 25, 2012 ... ronald reagan "raised taxes in 1982, 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987." — gerry  connolly on ... did the gipper really raise taxes during five years of his  presidency? we checked. let's start by noting ... politifact, "after reagan took  office, 'we didn't raise taxes and we didn't cut entitlements. what we did was cut ...
evidence_3: federal entitlements cost $197.1 billion in 1981—and $477 billion in 1987. ... as  reagan put it, "we're not attempting to cut either spending or taxing levels ... it  took 31 years to accomplish the first postwar debt tripling, yet reagan did it in  eight. ..... i was a middle class person during those years,and no we didn't grow.
evidence_4: feb 4, 2011 ... grover norquist: we're spending too much, not taxing too little. ... reagan  famously did cut taxes, sharply, in his first year in office. ... alan simpson:  ronald reagan raised taxes 11 times in his ... it didn't happen that way. ... made  a serious effort to challenge middle class entitlement programs, after ...
evidence_5: nov 16, 2017 ... but the stealth goal of gop tax cuts is to start down the path toward ... 1.5 million  new jobs created since i took office. ... in each case, according to the national  bureau of economic research, we were ... in kansas, when revenue collapsed,  republicans didn't respond by admitting error and restore the taxes ...