<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 10:30 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i>> History has established the approximately 20% number with the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s.</i></font></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>You need more than one data point to establish anything, and I don't think you have even one data point. And you need to take into consideration <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">H</span>e <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">W</span>ho <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">M</span>ust <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">N</span>ot <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">B</span>e <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">N</span>amed big tax cut during his first administration, he lowered <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">the </span>corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">,</span> and it resulted in<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>a 31 percent drop in corporate tax revenue<span class="gmail_default" style="">.</span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-tax-cuts-republicans-corporate-rate-1444133?campaign_id=116&instance_id=10300&segment_id=14415&user_id=24fd8e8519ac5bacbafda36691e5d7ac&regi_id=67903149"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Republican Tax Bill Leads to Record-Breaking Drop in Corporate Revenues</b></font></a></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""> John K Clark</b></font></div><div><br></div></div></div>