God dammit, what 32 was meaning to say is that virtually every person here was just throwing out "Lower taxes = Better Economy", and the link was to show that the periods of prosperity were accompanied by HIGHER TAXES, which is to say, not that high taxes make prosperity, but that cutting taxes willy-nilly is not the best way to go, and that Reagan probably used a tax cut to stimulate the growth, then taxed the growth to keep the deficit from burrowing into hell.
When you say shit like "lower taxes = better economy" you oversimplfy something that is incredibly complex, and it makes you sound like you don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
Besides, we really don't know if tax cuts really effect growth in the manner that we think it does. Correlation does not prove causation, and the economy is something with an infinite amount of variables effecting it, to the extent that it could never be scientifically tested to prove this hypothesis right. Hell, people today still dispute whether Keynesian economics works, using the same reason, although "common sense" dictates that Keynesian economics works, and that "Reaganomics" works (I hate that moniker, it sounds so damn childish) they have not, and can not, be scientifically tested.
Hell, I've heard of something called "Elliot Wave Theory" that explains many bizzare correlations between the economy and other shit, like how the stock market rises when horror flicks come out. The theory also proposes that the market is less affected by human action than we think it is, and it follows a repeating fractal wave, and sort of implies that the Great Depression, Stagflation, and the Dot com boom were just parts of the up/down cycle of the US market.