I’m writing an article for a publication in Nashville and I read the following in this mises article on Reagan:
It says,
"As James Ostrowski noted in 2002, “Over the last one hundred years, of the five presidents who presided over the largest domestic spending increases, four were Republicans. Include regulations and foreign policy, as well as budgets approved by a Republican Congress, and a picture begins to emerge of the Republican Party as a reliable engine of government growth.”
Does anyone have any idea what these spending increases specifically were?
where can i find the sources for these claims? This is my one prblem with most publications but especially mises articles. They usually provide no foot notes, or works cited. Is there a govt agency that records these stats, like the census bureau, or the department of commerce?
just google the claims… for example, the article said that Hoover increase taxes, and if you google “Hoover tax increase,” you will find out that he signed the “Revenue Act of 1932” which more than doubled the rate of taxes on people and increase the estate tax by 14-15%
How does he get figures like that? I don’t know how to research/calculate similar statistics.
he probably got it by doing GDP calculations… you can always email the author
derpderpderp I didn’t even think of that haha. Thank you for the suggestion.
its ok… we all have our ‘derpderpderp’ moments