<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><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"><div class="msg511095135777360980"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_511095135777360980WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> </span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Georgia,serif">> History has established the approximately 20% number with the Reagan tax cuts of the 1980s.</span></i></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>…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></b><span class="m_511095135777360980gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">H</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">e </span></b><span class="m_511095135777360980gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">W</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">ho </span></b><span class="m_511095135777360980gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">M</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">ust </span></b><span class="m_511095135777360980gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">N</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">ot </span></b><span class="m_511095135777360980gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">B</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">e </span></b><span class="m_511095135777360980gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">N</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">amed big tax cut during his first administration, he lowered </span></b><span class="m_511095135777360980gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">the </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent</span></b><span class="m_511095135777360980gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">,</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> and it resulted in</span></b><span class="m_511095135777360980gmaildefault"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">a 31 percent drop in corporate tax revenue<span class="m_511095135777360980gmaildefault">.<br></span></span></b> <br><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" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Republican Tax Bill Leads to Record-Breaking Drop in Corporate Revenues<br></span></b></a> <br><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></b></blockquote></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif">Sure but that almost makes it sound like a bad thing</font></i><b style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">.</b></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>You're the one who said the 20% was the magic number that maximizes the amount of money the government gets from taxes<span class="gmail_default" style="">, and that certainly wasn't the case in this example. </span> </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">John K Clark</span><br></b></font></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg511095135777360980"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_511095135777360980WordSection1"><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div>